Google seems to be making ready a brand new characteristic for Android that may enable your smartwatch to control the audio output setting on your smartphone.
Through your Android telephone it’s already fairly simple to shortly swap the output of audio to a different supply. Google has even constructed out a system the place Chromecast gadgets and even Spotify Connect may also help you shortly transfer audio output from one gadget to a different. But that solely works on your telephone itself.
Soon, plainly Android will help giving this control to your smartwatch.
Google is engaged on a brand new “media routing control” for Android which might be an app permission. This would enable apps on your telephone to control the place audio output goes, and this consists of the companion app of a smartwatch, in flip permitting the watch itself to do that. Google says:
For instance, holding this permission permits watches (through companion apps) to control the routing of purposes operating on the telephone.
The new work on “media routing control” confirmed up in AOSP just lately as first reported by Android Authority, who additionally pulled in different references to the venture elsewhere. The choice would let an app on your gadget “entry a listing of obtainable gadgets and control which one streams or casts audio or video from different apps.” Google additional explains that the permission “permits [an] app to decide on which linked gadget performs audio or video from different apps. If allowed, this app can entry a listing of obtainable gadgets corresponding to headphones and audio system and select which output gadget is used to stream or solid audio or video.”
It’s not totally clear when this performance may arrive, however it’s totally attainable it might present up within the upcoming Android 15 launch.
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