Google’s Cellphone Hub, which permits nearer connectivity between Android telephones and Chromebooks, is getting some much-needed enhancements. With the arrival of Android 13, the platform will permit you to obtain and ship messages out of your Chromebook through any messaging app put in in your Android cellphone. This skill is presently restricted to the Google Messages app.
In a blog post printed as a part of the Google I/O convention yesterday, Google mentioned it is possible for you to to stream messaging apps out of your Android cellphone straight to your Chromebook with Cellphone Hub. In case you’re working in your laptop computer and obtain a message in your cellphone, you may reply straight from the laptop computer. No want to choose up the cellphone. Likewise, you can too ship new messages out of your Chromebook.
In fact, these skills aren’t new in the event you use Google Messages. However as Android Police notes, the present iteration both makes use of direct interplay with a brand new message notification or you have to have the Messages PWA (progressive internet app) put in in your Chromebook. It does come pre-installed on most Chromebooks however that’s not the purpose. Google is essentially altering how Cellphone Hub works to allow a greater cross-device messaging expertise.
Cellphone Hub on Chromebooks can already do a number of different issues. You possibly can rapidly allow/disable the hotspot in your cellphone, find (ring) the cellphone if in case you have misplaced it, or put it on silent mode. Moreover, you may entry your current Chrome tabs out of your cellphone and dismiss notifications. Cellphone Hub additionally permits Sensible Lock, which helps you to log in to your Chromebook by unlocking your cellphone, without having to kind in a pin or a password. It allows you to share Wi-Fi networks throughout your gadgets as properly. Final however not least, Cellphone Hub permits your Chromebook to make use of your cellphone’s web connection.
Google has extra plans for a seamless multi-device connectivity
Android 13 will enhance the connectivity between Android telephones and tablets in additional methods. In accordance with Google, the brand new Android model will permit you to “copy and paste a URL or photograph out of your Android cellphone to your pill and vice versa”. The corporate says it has many extra such multi-device connectivity options within the plans for the long run.
Android 13 is presently within the public beta section for Google’s Pixel telephones in addition to choose gadgets from different manufacturers. The secure rollout is predicted to start this fall. We’ll preserve you posted.
