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Google Play Arriving On Chromebooks This Summer: ALL Android Apps Are Now Chromebook Compatible!

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Google Play Arriving On Chromebooks This Summer: ALL Android Apps Are Now Chromebook Compatible!

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Google is giving Chromebooks get right of entry to to the whole Android apps catalogue

Paul Briden

Google I/O 2016 is winding down however there is nonetheless little snippets of pleasure rising about Google's plans for the remainder of the yr and past. On the giant developer convention this yr Google held a consultation entitled "Coming to a Chromebook Close to You", during which it published that the Google Play retailer can be arriving on Chromebooks over the summer time. This is lovely massive information for Chromebook customers (together with me!).

To place that during some more or less point of view, till now the Chromebook ChromeOS tool has been solely browser founded, that means that the majority programs have now not been true, fully-fledged programs within the strictest sense and as an alternative are extra regularly than now not a hyperlink to a plugin-based internet portal for that carrier within the browser. For a large number of Google products and services like Force, Doctors, Pictures and so forth, this works smartly sufficient, however for such things as Spotify, as an example, the revel in has been particularly sub-par in comparison to on Android units. As soon as Google Play for Chromebooks is going are living, then again, we are speaking about quick get entry to to over a million purpose-built programs with complete capability!

In keeping with Google, its Android and Chromebook groups have labored in combination intently to convey this all about, enabling the Android runtime surroundings to paintings inside of ChromeOS - on the other hand, the most important distinction is the hardware degree noticed on your conventional Chromebook, which will have to be capable of run programs a lot more easily than maximum Android smartphones. Then again, this is not an emulation, the ChromeOS is not rendering an Android surroundings it's if truth be told operating it ground-up, that means there is not any lack of capability and the apps can nonetheless obtain and retailer essential media and information to the tool.

The fortify extends to just about each and every software, together with Microsoft's Administrative center suite for Android, Netflix, Photoshop Combine, and Spotify, opening up an entire new vary of choices for Chromebook customers. Word, then again, that that is purely a Chromebook function and you will not in finding the similar beef up at the Chrome browser for PCs.

17:50, 23 Would possibly 2016
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