Windows 10: Here’s why Windows 10 Android app streaming won’t work with every phone

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    Here’s why Windows 10 Android app streaming won’t work with every phone


    With May 2020 Update, Microsoft has introduced support for ‘Hosted Apps’, which are registered as independent apps on Windows 10 with access to background tasks, notifications, tiles, and more.

    According to Microsoft, a hosted app shares the same executable as a parent host app, but it would look and behave like a separate app on the system. This concept allows a component in an app to behave like a standalone Windows 10 program, but the component will require a host process in order to execute the task.

    Microsoft now allows Windows 10 Your Phone app to stream your Android apps to the desktop using this hosted app concept. In this case, the Your Phone app is hosting your Android apps, and the hosted Android app has its own start tile, identity, and deep integration with Windows 10 features.

    Here’s why Windows 10 Android app streaming won’t work with every phone Windows-10-Android-apps.jpg

    When you configure the Your Phone app and link your Samsung Galaxy device to Windows 10, you can launch your Android apps in a separate window. This allows you to interact with multiple applications at once and carry work without using the Your Phone app at the same time.

    The app streaming feature is gradually rolling out to Windows Insiders on Release Preview Channel, but there’s a catch—the feature works only with Samsung phones.

    Originally, Windows 10’s Your Phone app screen mirror feature was supposed to mirror your Android screen to Windows 10 device over Bluetooth Low Energy, which could have allowed wider compatibility for phones, but it often did not work as intended.

    As a result, Microsoft said it was dropping support for Bluetooth Low Energy, making the mirroring feature exclusive to Samsung phones.

    Here’s why Windows 10 Android app streaming won’t work with every phone Your-Phone-mirror.jpg

    Bluetooth Low Energy feature is available only on a handful of Windows machines, mostly the flagship products from Microsoft and its partners.

    By dropping support for Bluetooth Low Energy, Windows 10’s screen mirroring now works on more PCs, but it also meant that screen mirror will require assistance from the phone manufacturer.

    Since Microsoft and Samsung are close partners, the tech giant worked with Samsung to develop “Link to Windows” that works over Wi-Fi and is deeply integrated into the OneUI.

    During the initial setup, Windows 10 connects to the Samsung phone over Bluetooth, but it uses a Wi-Fi-based technology to stream apps directly to the desktop and the latency is reduced between the devices due to the “special drivers” built into the OneUI.

    Here’s why Windows 10 Android app streaming won’t work with every phone Windows-10-and-Samsung.jpg

    In other words, this integration isn’t only about Bluetooth as it also uses Wi-Fi and custom drivers to reduce the latency, thus enabling a smooth streaming experience. The close collaboration allows faster and reliable streaming of Android apps.

    Of course, it’s not something that you can install by hacking your non-Samsung device. It requires the OEM to install the driver in their phone’s firmware or ROM to make it happen.

    Windows 10’s app streaming feature could also come to other non-Samsung hardware, but the companies must install the driver and enable the integration.

    As others have suggested, Microsoft’s Surface Duo will also ship with the special driver to enable screen mirroring and app streaming support on Windows 10.

    If don’t want to buy a Samsung phone to try out the new feature, you’ve two options – buy Surface Duo or wait for your OEM (OnePlus, Xiaomi, etc) to collaborate with Microsoft.

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  2. t_ski Win User

    $.10 android apps

    Not sure if anyone's seen this yet, but they have $.10 (yes, 10 cents) android apps on the Android Market to celebrate 10 BILLION downloads. So far I've picked up Tetris, Need for Speed Shift, SoundHound amd ADWLauncher EX. There were several other games that were listed, including ones too good for my phone *Frown Here’s why Windows 10 Android app streaming won’t work with every phone :(
     
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  3. Dos101 Win User
    Windows Phone users Clubhouse

    I think I'll put a list of people's favourite apps in the OP, starting with my own until I get some suggestions, but you can take a look at the Windows Phone app store at the top apps to see what's popular http://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/store

    You are both now added, welcome! *Toast :toast:
     
    Dos101, Aug 9, 2020
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  4. Here’s why Windows 10 Android app streaming won’t work with every phone

    windows 8 phone vs android?

    How Windows Phone Is Turning Its Slim App Selection Into a Strength

    Windows Phone has tons of advantages by sharing components (like .NET and Windows Marketplace) with it's Windows brethren. It takes less effort to produce a quality program for both platforms than it does for Android and iOS. Microsoft is pursuing quality over quantity.

    Most people only use maybe 10 apps to get functionality not provided by default with the device. If Windows Phone has something functionally the same as those 10 apps on iOS or Android, the argument is moot.

    Case in point: pick the features you absolutely can't live without on any phone and compare them. Are they built into the OS? If there is not, is there an app available to add that functionality? Does the solution meet your expectations? Answer those questions for each functionality to find which platform is best for you.
     
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