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Rita El Khoury \/ Android Authority<\/p>\n
TL;DR<\/p>\n
Google\u2019s always working on something new for Android, and we spend a fair amount of time digging through app and system updates in the hope of getting an early look at some of those developments. When we\u2019re lucky, evidence is abundant and we\u2019re able to easily infer what Google\u2019s up to. Other times, however, it\u2019s a bit harder to get the full picture of what Google might be working on \u2014 even when it seems clear that developers are definitely up to something. And today, we\u2019re finding ourselves much more in the latter camp.<\/p>\n
You’re reading an Authority Insights<\/strong> story on Android Authority. Discover Authority Insights<\/strong><\/a> for more exclusive reports, app teardowns, leaks, and in-depth tech coverage you won’t find anywhere else.<\/p>\n An\u00a0APK teardown<\/b> helps predict features that may arrive on a service in the future based on work-in-progress code. However, it is possible that such predicted features may not make it to a public release.<\/p>\n We\u2019re looking at a recent update to Google Play Services, and as you may know, this software is how Google implements a lot of system-level functionality in Android \u2014 like we looked at just last month when we spotted new device backup settings<\/a>. This time we\u2019ve been crawling through the 25.24.31 beta release, and have spotted evidence of a new \u201cApp Cast\u201d feature.<\/p>\n We see references to App Cast popping up in code related to multi-device sync. We\u2019ve also identified a number of text strings that appear to have been added in preparation of App Cast support:<\/p>\n Code<\/p>\n Copy TextStarting app cast for package %s
We haven\u2019t been able to surface a UI for App Cast, and so we can\u2019t see any of this in action, but one possibility could involve Google giving Android devices the ability to stream apps installed on other hardware linked to your account. We can tell that there are elements in place for choosing devices from a list, and showing a progress bar. And as mentioned in the strings above, we see code for pulling up a list of installed apps.<\/p>\n Admittedly, the need for an app streaming mode feels a little narrow \u2014 in a lot of cases, it seems easier to just install the app on multiple devices \u2014 but we can appreciate times that require access to data that lives on a specific phone or tablet. We also wonder if this casting might extend to bigger screens, letting you view Android apps from your phone on Google TV.<\/p>\n But as we said, right now we just don\u2019t have enough of the puzzle to really say with any kind of certainty what Google is building here; this is all vibes at the moment. We\u2019ve also spotted work in Play Services on some manner of new notification sync<\/a> support that appears in proximity to some of this App Cast stuff, but we\u2019re not sure if that\u2019s just a coincidence, or if they\u2019re really meant to be related.<\/p>\n That\u2019s a little frustrating, but we\u2019ll keep digging into future Play Services builds in the hopes that we can soon nail down Google\u2019s intentions for App Cast.<\/p>\n
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\nStarting cast session for ‘ ‘ from ‘
\nLaunching ‘%s’ on remote device ‘%s’<\/p>\n