Video of Android 13’s PC Streaming Feature Surfaces Online

Google introduced at CES 2022 that it’s engaged on a function, allegedly referred to as “Eche”, that may permit Android telephone customers stream/ mirror apps and notifications instantly on Chromebooks. While Google didn’t reveal any particulars in regards to the function, its working has been demonstrated in a brand new report. A video clip shared within the report explains the working by taking an instance of the Twitter app. The function has reportedly been examined on a Google Pixel smartphone working Android 13 Developer Preview construct, and it was discovered that this “Chrome OS exclusive feature” works on Windows 11 as properly.

As per the main points shared within the report by 9to5Google, the function appears just like Microsoft’s Your Phone app that enables Android customers to entry their messages and notifications instantly on Windows PC fashions. In reality, Google already has “Phone Hub” that enables customers to entry an Android telephone’s options on a Chromebook display. The distinction, nevertheless, is presumed to be the deeper integration of this function with Chrome OS.

Folks at 9to5Google declare that they have been in a position to take a look at a Google Phone Hub-like function, reportedly referred to as Eche, on a Google Pixel smartphone. This is claimed to be a “System Web App,” which implies it’s a built-in Chrome OS app created utilizing Web applied sciences, and customers might not must obtain or set up another app individually to make this work.

At CES 2022, Google introduced that Chromebook customers will get the flexibility within the devoted Phone Hub part to view and reply to messages they get on their Android telephones instantly from the bigger display of their computing system. However, Eche reportedly permits customers to answer to messages, verify incoming notifications, and see a reside feed of apps put in on a Pixel telephone.

9to5Google reviews that they have been capable of finding two “Cross Device” service apps in Android 13 Developer Preview construct for Pixel telephones. These service apps allowed for cross-device streaming between a Pixel telephone on Android 13 and a particular Web app, in keeping with the report, including that this “Chrome OS exclusive feature” additionally ran on a Windows 11 system.

The function features a multicolour background and customers can work together with the app “as if it were natively open on your laptop/desktop”. Furthermore, it doesn’t merely mirror a display however generates a wholly separate digital show, the report says. Furthermore, the function doesn’t disrupt the functioning when an app was opened both on the laptop computer or on the telephone’s most important display, 9to5Google reviews.

As per a brief clip shared by the publication, the display of the function has buttons to ship suggestions, cease the app/ video feed, return a web page, and resize the show within the top-right nook. Along with these buttons, there are alternatives to make use of pill display mode and telephone mode. The backside left has a menu button that reveals the complete record of apps put in on the linked telephone. There is an oblong field on the appropriate aspect that reveals a feed of the linked telephone’s present notifications, as per the report.