Google is deeply integrating Android and Chrome OS

According to the January summary released by Google, the company’s plan for 2022 is to deeply integrate Android and Chrome OS, making the entire ecosystem comparable to Apple.

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One of those features is a messaging app that lets you mirror your Android phone on your Chromebook. Technology media 9to5Google found that Google hopes to mirror mobile applications to Chromebooks, and will open it to non-Chrome OS devices in the future.

According to 9to5Google, the feature works as follows:

Instead of simply mirroring your phone’s portrait screen, your Pixel generates a completely separate virtual display and casts it to your laptop or desktop. This second display is where your messaging app appears. This means you can open an app on your laptop/desktop without interfering with any apps running on your phone’s home screen.

And, it’s not just messaging – you can obviously open any app on your phone:

In the lower-left corner, there is a menu button that when clicked brings up a list of all the apps installed on the phone. With this menu, you can launch any app on your phone, not just the Messages app. In fact, your entire phone is accessible through the Pixel’s cross-device streaming.

The 9to5Google article has some videos and screenshots that nicely demonstrate what the app is capable of. 9to5Google has also enabled cross-device streaming on Chrome OS, although the publication only seems to be able to get one messaging app to work.

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