Android Apps
Send links from Android to Google TV with “Share” function [Tips]
April 29, 2011 | by Andrew Kameka
Entertainment, Video Tutorials
Since I first connected my Google TV and brought Android into my living room, I’ve cried out for one app: Phone to Google TV. Chrome to Phone has become a must-have app because it allows me to send links from my desktop to my HTC EVO 4G, and I wanted the same option to send links from my phone to Google TV. There have been plenty of times in which I’ve come across a website and wanted to bring it up on my Google TV, but I could never find an app that would save me from re-typing the address.
It turns out that there was a solution right under my nose the whole time. I recently noticed that there was a Google TV Remote option in the list of apps in the Android Share function. I’m speaking, of course, of Android’s feature that can push information, including links, from one app or service to another. So if I get a link to a blog post with a video embedded, I can use that function to send it to Gmail, Facebook, Twitter, or any other app set-up to handle it.
After a quick test, I suddenly realized that I actually have my Phone to Google TV option after all. With the Google TV Remote or the Logitech Harmony apps installed, I can push links from my phone to my Logitech Revue box. People have been able to do this with YouTube videos from the beginning, but this option works with more websites. Link shorteners don’t seem to be recognized, so you may have to click links you see on Twitter (bit.ly, deck.ly, etc.) to open in the browser and then pass it along. Here’s an example.
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"Here's an example" – where?
it's added now. youtube embed code didn't save before.
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Nice. Now if it actually worked, I'd really be happy. Every page I try opens the Google TV app and then reports that the link isn't valid. #FAIL
Wow. So I just tried to login to this page using OpenID so I could post this comment un-anonymously and then that failed to (from my Revue).
I'm so glad Google gave me this unit because if I had purchased it, I'd be very unhappy. As it stands, I'm only regularly annoyed that I waste so much time trying to do things with it when I'd have been better off just going and grabbing my laptop or tablet. I can say much the same for the Chrome Book they gave me. Nice idea but just not ready for prime time. So unlike Google
Holy SHIT! This comment system won't accept valid email addresses either!? username+tag@gmail.com is a perfectly valid pattern and web developers need to get with the program. I can imagine how this post will come across, but at this point I MUST post anyway because this is obscene. Apple is looking good right about now (and I loath that company and it's "i" products that are by their very declaration, self-centered and self-serving).
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