{"id":4489,"date":"2020-07-29T21:12:58","date_gmt":"2020-07-29T19:12:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/2020\/07\/29\/next-level-android-chromebook-integration-is-coming-via-phone-hub\/"},"modified":"2020-07-29T22:07:03","modified_gmt":"2020-07-29T20:07:03","slug":"next-level-android-chromebook-integration-is-coming-via-phone-hub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/2020\/07\/29\/next-level-android-chromebook-integration-is-coming-via-phone-hub\/","title":{"rendered":"Next-Level Android, Chromebook Integration Is Coming Via Phone Hub"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google is getting ready to step up its Android integration game on the Chromebook platform via a new service called Phone Hub. That&#8217;s reportedly set to be integrated alongside current features for connecting an Android smartphone. The feature is vaguely described in the Chrome OS flags settings. Specifically, it &#8222;provides a UI for users to view information about their Android phone.&#8221; But that&#8217;s not all. It also lets users &#8222;perform phone-side actions.&#8221;<br \/>\nDigging deeper, that all seems to be split across three categories. Those are &#8222;Phone Hub Notifications,&#8221; &#8222;Phone Hub Notifications Badge,&#8221; and &#8222;Phone Hub Task Continuation.&#8221;<br \/>\nHow does Phone Hub differ from the current Chromebook, phone integration?<br \/>\nThe implications of the terms in use here are fairly obvious. With Phone Hub, Google is working to make notifications from an Android smartphone appear more readily on a connected Chromebook. And it&#8217;s working to ensure badges for associated icons in Chrome OS work toward that end, it would seem.<br \/>\nThe most intriguing aspect of the features is arguably going to be &#8222;Phone Hub Task Continuation&#8221; though.<br \/>\nThe current device interconnectivity allows easy log-in to a web-based Messages platform for SMS and RCS messaging. It also allows quicker unlocking when a connected smartphone is nearby, as well as direct and instant sharing of network connectivity. But it doesn&#8217;t allow users to effectively continue actions or instantiate actions across the two platforms. This integration appears to be aimed at rectifying that.<br \/>\nIt may even serve as a feasible way to better integrate file-sharing and storage across gadgets.<br \/>\nThat could mean that users will be able to continue anything from an application- to phone call-based actions across devices. But it remains to be seen exactly what Google intends this for.<br \/>\nThis is only in Canary for now<br \/>\nThe features listed here aren&#8217;t going to be available right away though. At least not for every user. For the time being, they only exist in the Chrome OS Canary Channel. And more specifically, it&#8217;s only available on that channel hidden behind experimental 'flags&#8217; settings found at the &#8222;chrome:\/\/flags&#8221; URL.<br \/>\nGetting onto Canary in Chrome OS isn&#8217;t overly difficult but it does present challenges in terms of bugs and in terms of getting back to Stable. Namely, a full system wipe is also required. So it will be best to just wait for the features to arrive in the consumer release variant.<br \/>\nThe post Next-Level Android, Chromebook Integration Is Coming Via Phone Hub appeared first on Android Headlines.&#013;<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Phone-Chromebook-Samsung-Xiaomi-DG-AH-2020.jpg\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\">&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ndroidheadlines.com&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google is getting ready to step up its Android integration game on the Chromebook platform via a new service called [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":4490,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bez-kategorii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4489"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4491,"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4489\/revisions\/4491"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}