Google is working to make Android devices communicate better with each other

In this day and age, integration is the name of the game. It’s not only important that our devices work, it’s also important that they work well with other devices. Google is working on a new Link Your Devices feature for Android that will help your devices better communicate with one another.

Tech users are liable to own more than one device nowadays. They’ll have a tablet for media consumption and a phone for phone calls and games. Well, companies put a lot of effort into making these devices communicate seamlessly with one another. Apple is still the pioneer in this department and other companies are playing catch-up. Well, Google, the owner of Android, has the power to bring some strong integration to the platform.

Google’s bringing the Link Your Devices feature to Android

Android is pretty integrated, but it could still use some improvements. Thanks to a new report from 9To5Google, it looks like Google is looking to bring those improvements. As spotted by @Nail_Sadykov on Twitter, Android is preparing to bring a new Link Your Devices menu. This will be a hub showing different ways that you can share functionality between devices.

This is buried in the code at the moment, so you can’t access it. Right now, the menu only shows one thing that you’ll be able to do. The Call Switching feature will allow you to seamlessly switch ongoing calls between different devices. This is a neat feature to have, and we’ve seen it implemented by other companies before.

Other than that, we don’t know about any other features that the company is going to bring. Mishaal Rahman noted that Google could come out with an Internet Sharing feature, but we don’t see that functionality in the screenshot.

Only time will tell what Google has planned for this feature. Also, we’re not sure when the company is going to launch this hub. Since there was only one feature visible, we don’t know if the company is still working on more features to populate the menu. Android 14 is soon to hit the stable channel, this might be an included feature.