Send Marketplace App Links Directly to Android Phones From PC

Android as a mobile OS is blessed with many enthusiastic developers who is working round the clock to roll out new functionalities. As a result many Android apps are introduced to the Marketplace. You as a tester or an Android lover would love to test and tweak your handheld to the fullest. For helping you out in quickly sending text, links, images etc to your Android devices there are add ons available for Firefox and Chrome now.

FoxtoPhone for Firefox:

FoxtoPhone is an approval pending Firefox add-on that can send all  standard URLs and extensions like  market://, sms:// and tel:// links directly to an Android device. The app is powered by the Android Cloud to Device Messaging (C2DM) service and it requires version 2.2 of Android or later. It’s basically a port of the already available Google Chrome extension , ChrometoPhone. The QR codes generated using Google API’s gets decoded before sending to Android device which is very useful owing to the fact that all website are incorporating QR codes on their posts now.

Features of FoxtoPhone for Firefox are :

1. QR code to device
2. From clipboard to clipboard
3. Drag & Drop

ChrometoPhone for Google Chrome:

ChrometoPhone extension available for Chrome browser enables users to send links from their Chrome desktop browser to their Android device using Android’s Cloud to Device Messaging service. With features similar to that of FoxtoPhone the apps involved are Chrome Extension and Android App. Google Maps links and  YouTube links opens in respective apps on your Android device.

Features of ChrometoPhone are :

1. Send links to browser
2. Google Maps links launch the Google Maps app.
3. YouTube links launch the YouTube app.
4. Selecting phone numbers in Web pages, launches the dialer with the number pre-populated.
5. Selected text populates the Android clipboard (long-press on text boxes to get paste option).