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The Chrome team continues evaluating how they'll implement support for the Android Photo Picker. Recently they added a flag that controls what Picker is launched:

1) ACTION_GET_CONTENT intent
2) ACTION_PICK_IMAGES intent
3) ACTION_PICK_IMAGES "Plus" intent
4) Chrome Picker Image
4360520: [MediaPicker]: Add four variations for launch. | chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/chromium/src…

"It is not entirely clear which way of launching the Media Picker is the right one for Chrome, so we're adding four variations to allow for some experimentation."

H/T LanceAdams on Telegram
1) GET_CONTENT is currently handled by DocumentsUI (the system file picker). Google is experimenting with having the new Android Photo Picker "take over" handling of the GET_CONTENT intent. This briefly rolled out in November but was reverted.

blog.esper.io/android-photo-…
(For context, refer to this thread: )
2) ACTION_PICK_IMAGES intent is the standard way to invoke the framework Photo Picker on Android 11+ (though Chrome stills seems to require Android 13?). Through GMS, Photo Picker is also backported to Android 4.4+

blog.esper.io/android-photo-…
3) ACTION_PICK_IMAGES "Plus" is interesting. The MIME type is set to */* (ie. all) which Photo Picker does not handle and instead forwards to DocumentsUI. It seems the Chrome team wants the Photo Picker team to add a way to force the Photo Picker to show the "browse" button...
...in the overflow menu; currently this "browse" button only appears when the Photo Picker is invoked through the GET_CONTENT takeover, and tapping it opens the system file picker/DocumentsUI. ImageImage
I personally think this would be useful; give users the option to open the more feature-rich DocumentsUI, no matter how the Photo Picker is invoked, while still defaulting to the prettier Photo Picker for image/video selection.
4) Chrome Picker, this just launches the old in-app media picker, which means you have to grant Chrome gallery access permissions.

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If your Android app allows users to create an account, then Google Play will eventually require you to offer a way for users to initiate account AND data deletion from within the app and from the web.
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For example, I could install Cross-Device Services onto my Zenfone 8 running Android 13. It installs fine, but it will never work for one reason: It can't get the permissions it needs! Image
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I'm writing this tweet from a Chromebook that has Twitter for Android streamed to it from a Pixel 6 Pro running Android 13!
Manually enabled the new "app streaming" feature.

There was a bug preventing it from working on Android 14 DP2, so I downgraded one of my Pixels to Android 13 and then got it to work 😁 ImageImage
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I just opened Google Pay and saw that I have $46 in "rewards" that I got "for dogfooding the Google Pay Remittance experience."

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Some users on Reddit have gotten over a couple hundred dollars!!! One user says they got $1,072. Wtf.

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Open GPay, swipe to the "Deals" tab, and see if you have any "rewards" near the top. That's where I'm seeing this.

I suspect this is an error, so that money is just gonna sit in my account for now lol.
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Google is finally rolling out the "app streaming" feature they first announced at CES 2022!

This feature uses new APIs in Android 13 to let you stream and control your Android apps from your Chromebook!

This won't be a Pixel-exclusive feature, either! ImageImageImageImage
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* Pixels
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* OPPO Find N2 Flip
* Redmi A2
* Redmi Note 12
* Xiaomi 12T
* Xiaomi 12T Pro
I've got it set up. Here are screenshots of the setup process.

Phone: Pixel 6a running Android 14 DP2
Chromebook: HP Chromebook X2 on Chrome OS Version 114.0.5691.0 ImageImage
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