Chromebooks could soon mirror the screen of Google Pixels
The Chromebook and Pixel Book operating system ChromeOS is in the process of getting a Phone Hub – a suite that looks like the Your Phone app on Windows 10. One of the features being tested, appears under the code name Eche. This would be a system that allows you to “cast” the screen of the Google Pixels directly on your computer.
In recent years, Microsoft has redoubled its efforts to better integrate Android smartphones into Windows 10. The Your Phone application allows you to synchronize your messages, make and answer calls from your PC, synchronize your photos and even to mirror the screen of Samsung Galaxy smartphones – with the possibility ofuse your Android apps directly in Windows.
It is not the first to push the integration of smartphones and computers. Years earlier Apple had already launched a series of very similar features to better interlock experience between iPhone, iPad and Mac. The stakes are high. More than three quarters of internet browsing is done on mobile today. But the computer is still more practical for performing certain tasks.
Chromebooks would mimic what Windows 10 PCs already do with Samsung Galaxy
for example photo retouching, or video editing. Suddenly, it is not surprising that this type of integration interests other players. In particular Google which would like something similar in Chromebooks. This is also whya new application, Phone Hub, sort of equivalent to Your phone, is currently being deployed on ChromeOS.
9to5Google also believes, in passing, to have spotted one of its next functionalized by passing the source code of Chromium through a sieve. Mysterious references to a project called Eche have appeared. This name calls out, because it could be the literal translation of Cast into Spanishl. According to the code and the information spotted by 9to5Google, the device would take the form of a System Web App.
A mention stipulates in particular that “EcheApp is a Web App System which allows to transmit video and data in a bidirectional way through WebRTC” , a Chromium component that allows more advanced uses directly in the browser. Everything seems to indicate that the component will actually allow cast your smartphone screen in a window of your Chromebook.
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For the moment we do not know more, but it is likely that the functionality, is, as is often the case, initially reserved for Google Pixel smartphones.
Source: 9to5Google
