Chrome remote desktop goes mobile
Now, users of mobile devices running Google's Android can access their desktop computers remotely with a new app from Google.
Google's new Chrome Remote Desktop app evolved from the previous version that allowed access to a remote computer from a laptop or desktop computer.
"Have you ever been out and about, and urgently needed to access a file that’s sitting on your home computer? Since 2011, Chrome Remote Desktop has let you remotely access your machine from another laptop or computer in a free, easy and secure way. And now, with the release of the Chrome Remote Desktop app for Android, we’re making it possible for you to do the same thing from your Android device," product manager Husain Bengali said in a blog post.
Bengali said the app works with machines running Microsoft's Windows and Apple's Mac OS X.
The app can be downloaded from the Chrome Web Store, but will have to be "paired" with the computer to be remotely accessed.
Once it is, a user can "simply launch the Android app on your phone or tablet, tap on the computer’s name and start using your remote machine as if you were sitting right in front of it."
While the app is initially for Android devices, Bengali said an app for iOS is on the way. - Joel Locsin/TJD, GMA News