com.samsung.android.smartmirroring Copy

Smart View, Samsung's screen-mirroring feature on Galaxy devices. Samsung's own support documentation describes it from the user's side: open the Quick settings panel, tap Smart View, pick the television, and exactly what is showing on the phone appears on the TV, whether that is an app, a photo or a video, with the TV on the same Wi-Fi network. Disconnecting is the same tap in Quick settings. Despite that visibility it is a system component rather than an ordinary app: it has no launcher entry in any observation here, and it is signed by a Samsung OEM key that also signs the Android framework. The permissions it declares, as recorded on this site, are consistent with that role and worth knowing, because they indicate how much of the device the feature was built to reach: CAPTURE_VIDEO_OUTPUT, CAPTURE_SECURE_VIDEO_OUTPUT, CAPTURE_AUDIO_OUTPUT, CONFIGURE_WIFI_DISPLAY, ADD_TRUSTED_DISPLAY, BIND_QUICK_SETTINGS_TILE and a companion app-streaming profile permission. CONFIGURE_WIFI_DISPLAY is the platform's Wi-Fi Display permission, consistent with the wireless-display route Smart View has historically used. Version note. Samsung's own Common Criteria application lists record the package under the same "Smart View" label on the Galaxy Note9 (the Oreo-era N960N list, at 5.0.43) and on the Galaxy S20 (the R-era G981U list, at 8.2.11.33). Devices on this site report 8.2.16.44 to 8.2.28.15, observed from API 28 through API 37 and targeting API 31 to 36, only on Samsung hardware, so it is long-standing and still maintained. What has moved is which displays it can reach, and that is the part worth checking before planning around it. Google Cast support arrived awkwardly: SamMobile reported the capability present but not exposed as a supported option on One UI 5 and Android 13 builds, the route to enable it made considerably harder in One UI 6 and Android 14, and an easier toggle restored under Smart View's own Labs settings in One UI 6.1, rolling out across models over following months. Samsung's current support documentation now states plainly that Smart View can wirelessly connect a compatible Galaxy phone to a Samsung Smart TV or a Chromecast device. Two cautions on that: the intermediate steps rest on SamMobile's reporting rather than Samsung documentation, and availability depends on One UI version, model and rollout rather than being uniform across a fleet. Check the build in front of you. For Android Enterprise, EMM and kiosk use, the relevant point is that mirroring puts the whole screen onto a nearby display, which is a data-egress question on a managed handset and, on a single-purpose device, a route out of the intended experience through the Quick settings tile. Samsung documents no dedicated screen-mirroring restriction in Knox Service Plugin's device restrictions; the nearest documented control there is Allow Wi-Fi Direct, which governs whether the device may connect to Wi-Fi Direct networks without an access point. Samsung does not document whether that restriction affects Smart View, and no source here establishes that it does, so do not reach for it as a mirroring control without testing the result. The documented route to remove the feature itself is blocking the package by name through Knox Manage's application policies. The rating below is caution rather than safe: the expected user-visible effect of blocking it is the loss of mirroring, but other effects are undocumented and need testing. This site records the permissions a package requests, so while a com.samsung.android.smartmirroring.API permission appears among them, that establishes neither that the package defines such an interface nor that anything else calls into it. Test on one device before rolling it out.

• Screen mirroring to your Samsung TV - Samsung Support →
• Share the screen of your Galaxy phone with Smart View - Samsung Support →
• Galaxy Note9 (N960N) application list - Samsung Knox CC Mode documentation →
• Galaxy S20 5G (G981U) application list - Samsung Knox CC Mode documentation →
• New method to cast Galaxy screen to Google Cast using Smart View - SamMobile →
• One UI 6.1 update brings back an easier way to enable Chromecast in Smart View - SamMobile →
• Device restrictions (Allow Wi-Fi Direct) - Knox Service Plugin - Samsung Knox Documentation →
• Enable or disable a specific system app - Knox Manage - Samsung Knox Documentation →
• Package provenance for com.samsung.android.smartmirroring - Android System App Database →

• Signed by the device maker's own signing key (Samsung), so it is an OEM preinstall, and that single certificate is consistent across all 19 device profiles. It also signs the Android framework, so it is a platform-level key on its device(s). Inferred from the certificate appearing only on Samsung devices (508 packages, 10196 observations).
• Its largest observed manifest declares 88 permissions: 6 runtime (user-granted), 42 signature or system-level, 14 install-time and 26 vendor or uncatalogued.
• APK size ranges from 5.7 MB to 9.9 MB across the reporting device profiles, so the build differs substantially between them.
• Never reported as user-facing, so it runs as a background or system component rather than an app the user opens.