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Chrome OS Can Now Run Android Apps With No Porting Required

Posted by timothy on from the that-could-be-big dept.

An anonymous reader writes On Thursday, Google launched "App Runtime for Chrome (Beta)" which allows Android apps to run on Chrome OS without the need for porting. At the moment, only Duolingo, Evernote, Sight Words, and Vine are available on the platform with the rest of the Play Store's offerings to come later. Google "built an entire Android stack into Chrome OS using Native Client" in order to achieve this.

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  1. Re:Why not all apps at once? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I don't get why this is so highly rated. Try plugging a mouse or keyboard into an android device via on-the-go USB or bluetooth... You'll get a mouse that you can use to create events by clicking on things. They'll work fine with Android.

    There's no "mess" inherent in Android w/a mouse. Maybe some multi-touch apps will have issues, but I would think that the lack of other hardware (GPS, accelerometer, etc.) may be more important. That said, Android developers have to deal with missing peripherals all the time-- either you compensate via alternative input/displays/etc or you just dont' make the app available to devices that won't support it.

    I'm sure the chromebook creates a hardware profile w/available peripherals and platform info, and ideally just like the google play store, will make only those apps available that will work...