Manually enabled the new “app streaming” feature. There was a bug preventing it from working on Android 14 DP2, so we downgraded one of my Pixels to Android 13 and then got it to work. The grid of icons in the “Recent apps” section is actually a shortcut to open an app drawer! That means you aren’t only limited to picking from the 5 most recent apps to launch.
Audio is also streamed from your phone to your Chromebook, meaning you can watch videos (or maybe even play some games?) – surprisingly little latency, too! You can *technically* launch multiple apps onto the virtual display if you have “force desktop mode” and “enable freeform windows” enabled in developer options, but it’s not a good idea, obviously.
You can also launch apps directly onto the virtual display, with an app like Taskbar by Braden Farmer that uses the APIs to do so, or through the ‘am’ shell command (append –display <DISPLAY_ID>). And thanks to the VirtualAudioDevice API in Android 13, the app streaming feature can inject audio from a remote source (in this case, the mic on my Chromebook) into an app running on the virtual display! This means your phone doesn’t have to be next to you to send voice messages.
