For Pushbullet, that's an OAuth Google login and a Chrome extension for AirDroid it's an OAuth login and a Windows app for Windows 10's notification mirroring it's a Microsoft account and Cortana. AdvertisementĪll of these services require some kind of account system and desktop app to sync notifications between Android and the PC. This is something developers specifically have to build into their apps, but most of the big messaging apps support it. The Remote Input API allows the remote device to send a string of text (via voice or typing) to the device instead, and this text gets posted as a message. After remotely pressing the "reply" button, normally this just pops up the keyboard on a phone and opens a reply dialog, which isn't very useful. Google also added the Remote Input API for messaging apps. The transportation of these notifications all happens at the OS level and requires no developer support. ![]() These are things like "Archive" or "Delete" for e-mails and "Reply" for e-mails, IMs, and SMSes. In Android 4.3, Google added a Notification API, which can mirror the entire notification panel to another device. Apps can sign up to be a Notification Listener Service, which allows the remote app to dismiss notifications on the phone and to remotely press the notification action buttons. We'd expect our ideal notification service to be able to do everything Android Wear can do with a notification, just inside of a PC app instead of a watch. ![]() ![]() Further Reading Windows 10 one year later: The Anniversary Updateīeaming Android notifications to your PC isn't a new idea-third-party apps like Pushbullet and AirDroid can already do it, but it's still interesting that Microsoft has introduced its own first-party implementation (it's also a tacit admission that Microsoft's own mobile platform is quickly fading). The way all these services work is to basically "become a really big smartwatch." The services plug in to all of the remote notification capabilities Google originally introduced for Android Wear, but they're available to any app that is granted the proper permissions.
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