So, you may have heard all the fuss about the new notification center in Chrome. You may have also heard all the rumors about Google Now coming to Google Chrome. While the new notification center is still too young to be really functional, and not all of Google’s services are compatible with it yet, there is no reason you can’t start start playing around with it right now. In fact, within a matter of seconds, you can start receiving all of your Android notifications on your desktop or laptop running the Chrome browser or Chrome OS – including Google Now notifications.
First, if you want to receive these notifications in Google’s new notification center, you’ll need to enable rich notifications chrome://flags/ on your desktop. Otherwise, you’ll get the traditional, somewhat outdated looking notifications.
Next, you’ll need to download Android Desktop Notifications from the Chrome Web Store. This is a free extension that will run in the background while you’re using your browser, or while you’re booted into Chrome OS.
Third, you’ll need to download Dekstop Notifications from the Play Store on your Android phone (linked below).
Finally, simply open Android Desktop Notifications on your computer, find the pairing code that appears, and enter that code into the app on your phone. On your desktop, you can configure how long you want notifications to remain open, and on your phone, you can configure which apps you want to send notifications to Chrome.
That’s it! You can now receive Google Now notifications in Chrome, or notifications from any other Android app on your phone, for that matter, including missed call notifications, texts, and more. Granted, you can’t actually control your phone from your computer with this extension, and dismissing notifications on your computer won’t dismiss them on your phone.
But it’s still cool, nonetheless.
Download: Google Play
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Now that I’ve unrooted my Evo and the PowerSaver stays in the notification drawer, I get a notification for this every 15-30 seconds it seems, lol. I’ve disabled it. Cool tho. Plus I couldn’t find where to enable rich notifications. Is that Chrome OS only?
Also how do you ” simply open Android Desktop Notifications on your computer”
I simply couldn’t find it to open.
open Chrome, go to the web store, download the web notifications. Install.
Open Play, download same thing. Run on the phone, get your link code, pair on chrome browser extension
SO far it works gets I get all the notifications on my laptop exactly how they appear on my phone. it has a few quirks though. Like when ever i use my key board the “change input method” notification comes up, but I don’t mind it much. anyway to disable certain notifications?
I noticed another funny thing. When your downloading apps notifications come up telling you at what percentage your app is at when downloading. as many as 4 notifications will pop up depending on how fast it’s downloading. I think that’s kind of cool. but it can get seriously annoying if your doing a mass auto update of your apps.
You can disable notifications from individual apps in the settings on your phone.
Yeah I noticed these same minor annoyances as well. The problem for me is that I don’t know exactly which app to disable to disable the annoying system messages. Is it Android System, Google Services Framework, or System UI? A little more detail on some of the notifications would be helpful, but I can see how this would have its uses.