Microsoft is Preparing To Test Android App-Mirroring on Windows 10 (zdnet.com) 30
Microsoft showed off the ability to mirror applications running on an Android phone to a Windows 10 PC last fall. Windows Insiders could begin testing this feature as soon as this week. From a report: MSPoweruser reports that the Android app-mirroring feature initially will be available on certain Android phones running Android 7.0 or greater, specifically the Samsung Galaxy S8, S8+, S9 and S9+. Supported Windows 10 PCs need to have the "Bluetooth radio supports Low Energy Peripheral Role" on their systems in order to get the app-mirroring feature to work. Users will need to have Microsoft's Your Phone app installed for the feature to work. Only Windows Insiders running the latest test builds on certain devices will be able to test app-mirroring at first.The app-mirroring feature potentially could be available to Insiders as soon as this week.
Ummm.... Miracast (Score:2)
Miracast has been mirroring Android apps since 2012. To Windows or almost any TV. How is this remotely new or innovative?
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Miracast has been mirroring Android apps since 2012. To Windows or almost any TV. How is this remotely new or innovative?
Miracast was added as standard in Android 4.2, and then removed again in Android 6. Only some phones support it now.
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Miracast has been mirroring Android apps since 2012. To Windows or almost any TV. How is this remotely new or innovative?
Miracast was added as standard in Android 4.2, and then removed again in Android 6. Only some phones support it now.
Well nice thing about android, most folks wont ever seen those upgrades so i bet vast majority are still Miracasting away :P
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Miracast is an open standard, so there's no licensing cost associated with it. As best as I can tell, Google disabled it for performance reasons. Like Steam In Home Streaming, Miracast works by encoding everything showing on the device's screen in real-time into a h.264 stream, then streaming tha
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How is this remotely new or innovative?
It provides access to all the data on your phone to Windows Telemetry . . . and their pals . . .
So, what this really means:
Users will need to have Microsoft's Your Phone app installed for the feature to work.
. . . is that your phone now is transformed into Microsoft's Their Phone.
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Yeah because when they own your desktop computer your biggest concern is that they may also own your toy phone.
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How is this remotely new or innovative?
I know right. Nothing is new or innovative if I don't bother even remotely looking up what makes it different. What are those people even thinking making something that I think works exactly like Miracast!
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It works from device to device without affecting something as fundamental as networking.
It works without draining your Android device flat within an hour as typically happens with WiFi direct connections.
Dell Mobile Connect had this for a while (Score:2)
https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/dell-mobile-connect/ab/dell-mobile-connect [dell.com]
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It sounds like it to me.
The big thing, is Windows 10 is more widely used then MacOS and the Apple TV. So now one can have their Presentation on their phone, and project it on a Windows PC for work, without all that mucking about with copying the file onto a shared drive, or sharing a USB stick.
You can do this with AirPlay but the problem is trying to find an Apple product hooked up at work.
Airdroid, Miracast (Score:2)
been there, done that. Yawn.
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Been there, fail, not capable of this, unable to use it across different networks, drops you off wifi to achieve what it does, finally MS presents something that may work as a solution.
The only real yawn is: Slashdot ignorance claims something is already being done without having a clue how a system works, *yawn*.
Too bad they gave up on their phones (Score:2)
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You're trolling. No one imagined that Windows Phone was any good, which is why it's gone.
It's totally possible that they were all trolls, but people with actual accounts repeatedly have made claims like this here. My understanding was that the reason Windows Phone died is that nobody was making apps for it. If Microsoft had flushed wince a long time earlier, maybe they could have made a go of it, but they didn't.
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Bullshit. I'm a few months into switching from a Nokia 950 Windows Phone to a Galaxy S9+ and I still wish for things WP had.
- The ability to choose a snooze delay time when the alarm goes off. (!!!!)
- The ability to record 4K video with STEREO AUDIO. Fucking S9+ does 4K video, but only mono audio. WTF?
- Replacable battery
- Continuum smokes DEX as far as working full screen. (Weirdly, my Windows Phone Continuum device will work with that Galaxy, never expected that.)
- So many little things I grew to love ab
Range? (Score:2)
PCs need to have the "Bluetooth radio supports Low Energy Peripheral Role"
OK so this is a nice technical exercise but really if I'm within BT range of a PC there's no way I want to poke at an Android phone screen instead of using the PC's keyboard and mouse.
Perfect for Win10 (Score:3)
You see, Win10 is huge step for Windows. For ages they were trying to cram a full desktop UI into the tiny 4 inch screens, without keyboard. Then, they turned around and slapped a UI designed for 4 inch screens on the 24 inch desktop.
With App mirroring the full power of stretching a 5 inch UI over 24 inch display will be totally apparent.
Right now Microsoft is busy implementing a gesture UI for their minitowers.
After that they will think of doing something about the swipe control using a three button mouse.