ChromeOS 115 rolling out: Android App Streaming, PDF signatures

Google is rolling out ChromeOS 115 as a bigger-than-usual replace with quite a few user-facing additions over the approaching days.

Amidst I/O 2023, Google introduced the beta availability of Android App Streaming out of your Pixel (4a+) or Xiaomi (12T, 12T Pro, 13, 13 Pro) telephone working Android 13 and newer with Cross-Device Services put in. It’s now coming into steady with ChromeOS 115 with the intention to stream apps out of your cellular gadget to your Chromebook.

This is framed as letting you “complete quick tasks like replying to a conversation, checking on the status of a rideshare or delivery, and editing your shopping list.”

Android apps, which open in a phone-sized window, will be launched through the Phone Hub the place you get a row of Recent apps on the backside of the panel with the flexibility to browse all suitable “Apps from your phone.” Applications can even open while you faucet by means of a messaging notification.

When opening PDFs within the Gallery app, ChromeOS 115 provides a signature software. Appearing subsequent to Draw within the prime toolbar, you possibly can add a signature, which is way simpler with a touchscreen than a trackpad and put it aside for future use. You can place it in any doc and resize the signature to make sure line match.

Lastly, Google has up to date the keyboard Shortcuts app with “new navigation and taxonomy,” improved search, and a “refreshed shortcut visualization” that higher exhibits what to press.

Meanwhile, that is unmentioned within the steady launch notes, however ChromeOS 115 is testing higher windowing choices within the beta channel. Hovering over the broaden/decrease button within the top-right nook management group will present you a brand new structure menu.

There’s Split (half), Partial, Full and Float. That final choice is new and makes it in order that the window is all the time on prime, similar to Picture-in-Picture (PiP) for video. The different choices had been beforehand accessed by dragging a window and transferring to the left/proper facet of the display screen till an overlay seems. This method is far more accessible and hopefully sees a large launch quickly.