{"id":235352,"date":"2017-10-30T16:44:48","date_gmt":"2017-10-30T14:44:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=235352"},"modified":"2017-10-30T16:47:28","modified_gmt":"2017-10-30T14:47:28","slug":"android-8-1-may-let-you-sms-a-chromebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/235352-android-8-1-may-let-you-sms-a-chromebook.html","title":{"rendered":"Android 8.1 may let you SMS a Chromebook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/android-developers.googleblog.com\/2017\/10\/android-81-developer-preview.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>developer beta<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0of Android 8.1 features several new functions and placeholders.<\/p>\n<p>One of them is the option to SMS a Chromebook, according to a report by <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2017\/10\/android-8-1-developer-preview-hands-on-everything-new-in-googles-latest-update\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Ars Technica<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A new APK called\u00a0SMSConnectPrebuilt lets users set up\u00a0&#8220;SMS Connect&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is a feature that allows you to read and reply to text messages on your Chromebook,&#8221; stated the report.<\/p>\n<p>It added that there is a Chromebook component to the setup, which can be accessed by typing\u00a0&#8220;chrome:\/\/flags&#8221; into the browser address bar.<\/p>\n<p>This lets you enable &#8220;Multidevice&#8221; features, including SMS Connect, but the function did not work when tested by Ars Technica.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/235040-new-whatsapp-update-delete-sent-messages.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">New WhatsApp update \u2013 Delete sent messages<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google&#8217;s\u00a0developer beta\u00a0of Android 8.1 features several new functions and placeholders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":225973,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[45188,45545,203],"class_list":["post-235352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-android-8","tag-android-8-oreo","tag-sms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235352"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235352"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":235356,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235352\/revisions\/235356"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}