ISSUE 73 • ANDROID ADVISOR 73automated texts of one-time passwords that a web
service may send you for two-factor authentication.
(Keep in mind that it’s more secure to use an
authenticator app for 2FA instead.)
Notifications
Likewise, Notifications represent nothing more than
the Android notifications that apps already send to
the home screen of your phone. There’s not much to
do here, although you do have the option of filtering
those notifications so that only a subset gets passed
along to your PC.
Like notifications of new email, those slide in from
the bottom right and reside in your Action Centre.
That’s reason enough to consider the filtering options,
as right now you can see one notification slide in for a
new email on your phone, and another from the Mail
or Outlook app on your PC.
Phone screen
This is one of the more interesting value-added
features of Your Phone: the ability to access your
phone’s home screen, and by proxy, access any
Android apps that may be on it. Overall it might be
more convenient just to simply haul out your phone.
On the other hand, if doing so would be rude, Your
Phone is a convenient way to access it surreptitiously.
Because you’re interacting with your phone over
a Bluetooth connection, you’ll notice some lag. (As
a test, I tried a couple of games over the Your Phone
connection; something like Angry Birds is playable,
but an action game is not.) Remember that you can’t