Send Links from Windows 10 to Android Using the Native Share Dialog

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Send Links from Windows 10 to Android Using the Native Share Dialog 

 

One of Microsoft’s key projects right now is to bring Windows 10 and Android devices in sync, so the company is working around the clock on improving the Your Phone app.

 

Together with its Android sibling, this app is supposed to allow the pairing of Windows 10 PCs and Android phones in order to make it possible for desktop users to access their photos and messages wirelessly.

But as it turns out, the sync also works the other way around, which means that you can send content from the PC to Android using the same Your Phone companion app.

Once the devices are paired, you can rely on the native share dialog in Windows 10 browsers (Microsoft Edge and Mozilla Firefox are the two supporting it for now) to send links to Android devices.Native share optionAll you have to do is to fire up a Windows 10 browser, navigate to a page that you want to share and then head over to the share option in Edge or Firefox. Click the Your Phone app in the share options and then the link should become available on Android in the browser that you used for sending it.

A notification should show up on Android to let you know that content sent from a desktop browser is available, and tapping it opens the link in Edge or Firefox.

This is without a doubt a neat feature for Android users, and while there are other ways to do the same thing on the mobile platform, a native implementation comes in much handier.

Once Microsoft Edge becomes a more mature browser and completes the transition to the Chromium engine on the desktop, this feature could make much more sense for Android users, as many more would stick with the app on both PCs and mobile devices.

 

 

 

 

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[straycat19]

They talk about this as if it was something good, but like NFC, it is something that can spread malware between your systems and disrupt your privacy.  Anything created by man can be hacked by man.  I read a review of a smartphone the other day where a buyer complained it didn't support NFC.  That is a good thing and a major selling point of the phone, and why I bought one.  There are plenty of idiots however who will buy into this 'share or sync everything' concept and then cry about their hacked accounts and loss of privacy.