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Chrome OS Will Finally Run Android Apps in the Background (engadget.com)
An anonymous reader shares a report: While it's no longer a novelty to run Android apps on your Chromebook, that doesn't mean they run well. To date, most of those apps pause when you switch away -- fine for a phone, but not what you'd expect on a computer with a multi-window interface. However, they're about to become far more functional. Chrome Unboxed has learned that the Chrome OS 64 beta introduces Android Parallel Tasks, which lets Android apps run at full bore regardless of what you're doing. You could watch a video in a mobile app while you're surfing the web, or take a break from a mobile game without jarring transitions. There's no guarantee that Android Parallel Tasks will reach the stable Chrome OS 64, so you might not want to plan a purchase around the feature.
You could just use a real OS, like Windows 10.
I can finally have my chrome book highjacked for buttcoin miners
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Google has the influence, introduce Linux apps to the masses already. Or are they scared that you will run Firefox on a Chromebook
For such an amazingly portable runtime platform, it's curious how rarely I see operational .APKs on non-Android platforms.
This was not quite the panacea that we were led to believe so long ago.
We often talk about the so-called "AI winter", where artificial intelligence stagnated for decades. Even today we're not out of it, with the most advanced "artificial intelligence" around just tending to be complex statistical models that give desirable outputs, rather than anything resembling actual cognition.
I think we've been in an "OS winter" since about 1995 or 1996. That was the last time we saw anything truly innovative when it comes to OSes, with the release of Windows 95. That was the last time we had an OS release that improved the user experience in any significant way.
Windows 10 is clearly just a devolution of the Windows 95 model, where Windows 95's simple and effective start menu and taskbar have been muddled up.
macOS is just some minor improvements to NeXTSTEP, which dates back to the 1980s.
Linux of today, with crap like systemd, PulseAudio, GNOME 3, and Wayland forced on its users, is actually a big step backward from what it was in 1995.
iOS and Android are effectively just prettier Palm OS-style systems, where you poke them with your finger instead of a stylus.
Embedded and realtime OSes haven't improved much since the 1990s.
If you had told people from 1997 about Chrome OS, and said it'd be in use in 2018, they would have thought that you were full of shit! They couldn't comprehend why anyone would waste their time with an OS that's so limited, especially compared to what was common in 1997.
OS development has totally stagnated. There hasn't been much forward progress since the mid 1990s, and there has actually been a lot of backward regression.
Who cares? Nobody is impressed with barely functional crap powered by the worlds most prolific cyber stalking company.
ahh you're back... where were you? hospital?
it's curious how rarely I see operational .APKs on non-Android platforms.
Jolla's Sailfish OS,
Samsung's Tizen,
and Blackberry
(and of course TFA's ChromeOS) :
all have Android compatibility layers.
Microsoft Windows made an attempt but didn't succeed. (WSL is what they managed to salvage out of the remnant of their failed attempt).
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Chrome breaks the HTTP Internet.
Fuck Chrome.
of Chrome OS on the desktop?
Do any of them work well enough?
Myriad's Aliendalvik anrdoid layer on Jolla's Sailfish OS more or less works.
The draw back is that it's still based around the "almost not Java" Dalvik JVM-like JIT engine, (well not exactly. It's Myriad's own variation of Dalvik)
so it's still stuck in the world of Android 4.4 Kitkat (so no support for Android 5.0 Lollipop only apps).
The other draw back is that Sailfish OS it selfs lacks drivers and frameworks for some hardware feature (e.g.: finger print scanners. There's a raw device showing up in /dev/ but that's about it), or doesn't have the necessary wrapper to forward other stuff from Gnu/linux world to Android (e.g.: bluetooth. Sailfish OS has a functioning BlueZ, but no wrapper to provide it with the BlueDroid api used on Android Apps. Meaning that some device work - e.g.: bluetooth speakers are handled by bluez and pulseaudio, and android simply see an audio-out and music correctly plays in Spotify, etc. - but app needing low-level acces don't - e.g.: the manufacturer's app to change the configuration of the same bluetooth speaker doesn't work).
Still it runs the majority of apps I've tried on it, (including common stuff like WhatsApp, Instagram, Skype, Messenger, Firefox, my bank's 2 factor app, etc.)
Jolla also has an Aptoid repository with curated APKs that are known to be compatible with Alien Dalvik (the Netflix version available there does work).
I have no experience with BlackBerry's compatibility layer.
I have no experience with Tizen's layer either, but I've read good reviews.
Regarding Windows, Microsoft never managed to get it to work, hence the change of focus to WSL (Windows Service for Linux - a.k.a.: "Bash in Windows").
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When was the last time you typed out an HTTP request by hand? What are you doing wrong with your life, that this is a necessary feature?
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