using streetview on a large screen display

Hi,

Is there a way to use Street View app on a large screen display?

Using it on my 6.2" smartphone is not very easy. I tried to install it on a 14" ChromeBook with PlayStore, but the Street View app is not working well, because it was not designed for large screen. I tried to use a magnification screen in front of the smartphone, but that was not useful either. Tried to screen mirror my smartphone to my Chromecast on my smartTV, but this was not good enough because a portrait image was displayed on a landscape TV screen.

Any other ideas?

thanks,

Radu

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@RaduD Maybe it would be useful to know what you need the larger screen for?
If for viewing Street View imagery mainly, you can use Google Maps https://maps.google.com/ on desktop browser (turn on Street View by clicking the pegmen icon), or use Google Earth https://earth.google.com/ on desktop browser (turn on Street View by clicking the pegmen icon). You can see where Street View data is present and just navigate there via desktop browser.

Maybe that would help a little bit. What else did you need to do on Street View for a bigger screen?

If you need to join spheres for creating a virtual tour, one other thing that can help is using a mouse on Android, that makes life much easier. Use a USB mouse (needs OTG connector), or use a Bluetooth one. Just a suggestion.

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@StephenAbraham

Mainly to add 360 photos to Street View. To edit their locations. To move and connect photos.

I have tried to work with ViewMake and Panoskin, but from my point of view there are not too many advantages. ViewMake works only on smartphone. Panoskin works in the cloud and is incredible slow if the internet connection is not good enough. And both of them are not free :disappointed:

@RaduD Street View app runs on my Xiaomi Mi Pad 4 Plus 10" screen if that’s any help.

Or you can try to run Street View app on a Android emulator on a Windows PC? Not tried that before.

But definitely try the mouse on your phone. There is no easy way to use fingers to join and connect very tight spheres.

@StephenAbraham

Tried on IPad pro, but the StreetView app was small in the center of the screen. Useless.

Then I attached a mouse to my Chrombook and rotate the display image to 270 degrees hoping the StreetView will work properly in portrait mode. I was wrong :disappointed:

Still looking for a solution…