Android device owners, now you can control your desktop from across the room — or the world

Google released its Chrome Remote Desktop app for Android yesterday, enabling the Android crowd to access their Mac or PC from afar. The app is a mobile extension of Chrome’s remote desktop screen-sharing service, which has enabled machine control from Chromebooks and Chrome browsers since it arrived in 2011.

First-time users will need to install a helper application to get things going (and set up a Google account, if they don’t already have one), but then they can just boot up the Android app and get going.

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An iOS version of the Chrome Remote Desktop app is coming later this year, Google promised in a blog post announcing the Android app release.

Google’s official app joins a bevy of remote desktop apps already available, including Microsoft’s Remote Desktop apps, which facilitate remote access to PCs from Android or iOS devices.