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How are they doing this? Is there an Android runtime embedded in Chrome OS now?
by dcgudeman 10y ago
How are they doing this? Is there an Android runtime embedded in Chrome OS now?
- JosephRedfern 10y agoYou've been able to run some Android apps inside chrome for a couple of years now: https://chrome.googleblog.com/2014/09/first-set-of-android-apps-coming-to.html https://chrome.googleblog.com/2014/09/first-set-of-android-a.... Perhaps this is based on that?
- mtgx 10y agoNo, the previous method was very different, and it required developers to modify their apps for Chromebooks, if they were to work at all. This article explains it: http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/05/the-play-store-comes-to-chrome-os-but-not-the-way-we-were-expecting/ http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/05/the-play-store-comes-...
- JosephRedfern 10y agoAh, right! Thanks for the link.
- mtgx 10y agoThey put the whole Android framework in a Linux container that runs on Chrome OS.
- Tobu 10y agoYes. LWN has the details: https://lwn.net/Articles/701964/ https://lwn.net/Articles/701964/