Monday, April 25, 2016

Millions of Android apps for Chromebooks – New Technology

It seems that Google plans to let computers with Chrome OS, called Chromebooks, run Android apps. A mysterious update for developers point to major changes.

The developer version of Chrome OS appeared the other day option up to allow Chrome to run Android through a much simpler control than before, writes among others Ars Technia. It means full access to all the apps in Google Play.

The first quarter of this year there were over 2 million apps for Android in Google Play, according to a report from the Sensor Tower, specializes in the optimization of apps marketplaces. According to the same report, was 11.1 billion downloads of apps from Google Play in the first quarter of this year.

Today, charging users of Chromebooks down apps via the Chrome Web Store. From here it is currently only possible to download a handful of Android apps from the app store.

For a year developers have been able to test drive Android apps on Chromebooks through the App Runtime for Chrome (ARC). The easier option appeared the other day for some developers in version 51 of Chrome OS, but then disappeared again. Interestingly, at this a month before Google’s big developer conference, I / O.

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