Rita El Khoury / Android Authority
TL;DR
- New code proof discovered within the newest Google Play Companies replace additional explains how the brand new video name switch characteristic might work throughout Android gadgets.
- The characteristic will start by permitting the switch of Google Meet video calls between Android gadgets in the identical system group.
- Google might additionally add assist for different video-calling apps sooner or later.
We’ve been listening to about new cross-device options Google is readying for some time now. We’ve now discovered extra proof suggesting how the brand new “Name Switch” cross-device characteristic might operate throughout linked Android gadgets.
An APK teardown helps predict options that will arrive on a service sooner or later primarily based on work-in-progress code. Nevertheless, it’s attainable that such predicted options might not make it to a public launch.
For context, tipster Assemble Debug beforehand discovered references to a “Name Forged” characteristic in Google Play companies v24.06.12. On the time, it was believed that the characteristic would enable customers to switch video calls throughout gadgets.
In our teardown of Google Play Companies v24-08-12, we’ve discovered extra code proof clarifying precisely how the characteristic might work. Curiously, the strings we discovered within the newest model of Google Play Companies consult with the characteristic as “Name Switch.” The precise title, when Google releases it, may be completely completely different.
Anyhow, the code we found reveals that the flexibility to switch video calls from one system to a different throughout the identical system group will first be supported by the Google Meet app.
Code
<string title="enrollment_feature_description_call_transfer">Change between
gadgets on video calls in apps like Google Meet</string>
<string title="enrollment_feature_explanation_call_transfer">See video calls
throughout your gadgets and change between them;/string>As you may see, the code suggests customers will have the ability to switch Google Meet video calls from one system to a different to start with. Because it mentions “apps like Google Meet,” we will presume that assist may be prolonged to different video-calling apps sooner or later.
Curiously, Google is now rolling out a brand new video name button within the Google Cellphone app. When pressed, it invitations the particular person you’re speaking to for a Google Meet name. Google might have completed this in preparation for the upcoming cross-device Name Switch characteristic.
The Cellphone by Google app is beginning to present a brand new “video name” chip throughout cellphone requires some customers. Tapping this chip opens a web page that allows you to shortly invite the particular person you’re calling to a Google Meet name.
In the meantime, “Name Forged” can be talked about within the code strings of the brand new Google Play Companies replace. Nevertheless, it’s tagged underneath a separate “Name Switching” class. In contrast to the code above, it doesn’t specify video calls.
Code
string title="call_switching_feature_footer">Name forged solely works with sure apps;/string>
<string title="call_switching_feature_intro">Transfer calls between this system and different
close by gadgets signed in to your Google Account;/string>It’s attainable Name Forged is a separate characteristic for switching gadgets throughout audio calls, however we will’t inform for certain proper now.
What’s virtually sure from in the present day’s discovery is that Android customers ought to quickly have the ability to switch Google Meet video calls to their grouped gadgets which have cross-device companies enabled. As per the code, “Gadgets with the identical Google Account might be added to a tool group and use cross-device companies collectively.”
It’s nonetheless unclear when Google plans to launch this and different rumored cross-device options, however they appear to be shifting nearer to launch.
