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Android Apps Now Unofficially Able To Run On Any Major Desktop OS
An anonymous reader writes A developer who goes by the handle Vladikoff has tweaked Google's App Runtime for Chrome (ARC) to allow any Android app to run on any major desktop operating system, not just the handful announced last week which were also limited to Chrome OS. His tweaked version of ARC is re-packaged as ARChon. The install isn't very straightforward, and you have to be in developer mode on Chrome. But there's a support forum on reddit. The extension will work on any OS running the desktop version of Chrome 37 and up as long as the user also installs chromeos-apk, which converts raw Android app packages (APKs) to a Chrome extension. Ars Technica reports that apps run this way are buggy, fast, and crash often but expresses optimism for when Google officially "opens the floodgates on the Play Store, putting 1.3 million Android apps onto nearly every platform."
We keep telling you. Over and over again.
STOP USING WINDOWS!
But do you listen?
OH NOOOOO!
Chas - The one, the only.
THANK GOD!!!
This is it; write once run anywhere has finally arrived.
Nononono. As always. "Write Once, Beta Everywhere".
Chas - The one, the only.
THANK GOD!!!
Something. Something. Year of the Linux desktop.
Don't fight for your country, if your country does not fight for you.
How dare they blaspheme the name of the Holy Google. Giver of search results and maps and storage to all of mankind..Blessed be the Stock of the Holy One. Amen.
Really, though. Why do you automatically lash out at this person and accuse them of being an "other"? you sound like a religious zealot. He could very likely be a linux admin, neckbeard and all. Maybe he's an apple fan. Who cares? It's irrelevant to the discussion.