Supported phones are as follows, according to Rahman: Google Pixel models, Asus Zenfone 9, Nothing Phone 1, Oppo A78 5G, Oppo Find N2 Flip, Redmi A2, Redmi Note 12, Xiaomi 12T and Xiaomi 12T Pro. In short, you may get it, or you may not – assuming you have a supported smartphone – but we’d imagine a wider rollout will be coming before too long (fingers crossed).
Exactly how the latter process works in terms of who has been chosen, Rahman isn’t certain, but observes that the rollout “seems to be server-side controlled by Google”. And crucially your device (or Google account) must be opted-in to the feature. Indeed, Google announced the capability way back at CES 2022 (yes, not at the start of this year, but the year before).Īs we mentioned above, though, there are big caveats as to who can avail themselves of app streaming from Android phones right now (which is still in beta, remember).įirstly, the capability is only available to install on certain devices (running Android 13) which includes Google’s Pixels phones (of course). The app streaming feature has been a long time coming. That’s to give those users enough time to find a replacement app for whatever crucial product they may still need.Īnalysis: Dream stream feature isn’t for everyone (yet) There may be some folks who are still using a Chrome App that’s important to them – most likely in a business (or education) setting – and so Google will continue to support them for ChromeOS until January 2025. Indeed, PWAs just plain work better all-round. PWAs successfully address the shortcomings of Chrome Apps, being more reliable, and having updates piped through automatically (with no need to visit the Web Store to install them). Google actually started phasing out these apps in 2020, but now, with the release of Chrome version 112, the company has officially brought down the guillotine on Chrome Apps for the desktop, instead ushering in PWAs.
They generally offered a compromised experience of cut-back functionality and glitches (not sizing properly for the screen they were being used on, for example). Those Chrome Apps have been on their way out for a long time, mind you, and were never very popular. Elsewhere in the Google software ecosystem, Digital Trends (opens in new tab) further reports on the death of Chrome ( browser) Apps that could be grabbed from the Chrome Web Store.
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