It looks like cross-device integration is coming to Android

Google is reportedly planning to introduce a brand new Android characteristic that may let customers hyperlink their varied Android gadgets collectively, just like Continuity options throughout the Apple ecosystem. Android professional Mishaal Rahman tweeted in regards to the potential characteristic, noting that it may permit Android gadgets which can be signed into the identical Google account to speak with one another. 

This might allow options like “Name Switching,” which permits customers to leap between related gadgets throughout calls, and “Web Sharing,” which Android Authority speculates may very well be a better technique to shortly arrange a private hotspot throughout the linked gadgets. Apple has an analogous call-switching characteristic known as “iPhone Cellular Calls” that permits customers to make and obtain calls from Apple gadgets like Macs and iPads signed into the identical Apple ID, offering they’re on the identical community because the person’s iPhone.

Android Authority additionally notes, nonetheless, that Apple’s “iPhone Cellular Calls” characteristic doesn’t permit customers to obtain calls from one other iPhone. The wording for Google’s “Name Switching” characteristic (as seen within the screenshot supplied by Rahman) means that it may very well be used to modify between totally different Android gadgets, together with telephones. So that you may be capable of decide up a name on a cellphone and switch it to a different linked cellphone or one thing just like the Pixel Tablet. We received’t know for positive till Google formally broadcasts this, but when it’s real then this may very well be helpful for folk who want to hold a couple of cellphone. 

Rahman claims that the “Hyperlink Your Units” menu will seem below Settings > Google > Units & Sharing within the system settings as soon as the characteristic is formally launched. Google has but to announce the Android system linking characteristic, not to mention a launch date. We’ve got reached out for remark from Google and can replace this story ought to we hear again.