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"For those apps that don't have the necessary binaries the native code will be translated on the fly to the host architecture instruction set" How would this happen?
Via an ARM/Android emulator? There's already one in the android development suite.
I'm curious why they didn't mention something so game changing as this in the keynote.
What game is this changing, really?
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Most apps ship with multiple binaries for the appropriate architecture. For those apps that don't have the necessary binaries the native code will be translated on the fly to the host architecture instruction set. Since Chromebook's are significantly faster than smartphones the small performance hit shouldn't be noticeable.
Source? On Android and under ARC you're SOL if an NDK app doesn't provide binaries for your architecture. This is rarely an issue though, as most apps just opt to ship with binaries compiled for every supported ABI. https://developer.android.com/ndk/guides/abis.html
Intellij for Android, would help a lot some developers ;-)
I assume you are suggesting you want to work on a tablet, or run pure Android on a laptop/desktop. The other interpretation of your words, given the topic of this article, is that you'd like IntelliJ on a Chromebook, so that: IntelliJ on Android + Android apps on Chromebooks brings IntelliJ to Chromebooks.
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What game is this changing, really?
Having offline apps is game changing because not everyone has access to the Internet all day long, and doing tasks like image and video editing on your laptop will be much easier and faster than using web services.
This is not game changer. It is exciting and might help grow the Android ecosystem. I just hope Google learned from the Honeycomb fiasco.
I'm curious just on the technical side, what does this mean for the many apps that include ARM code? (i.e. apps that use the NDK) Will there be some emulation, or do apps generally ship with multi architecture? Edit: Ok, the answer is, both. Thanks ;)
http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/05/the-play-store-comes-...
Hopefully that means we'll see a lot more ARM-based Chromebooks as well going forward. No need for an Intel monopoly in the architecture agnostic Chrome OS world, so I hope Google and its partners will stop encouraging that monopoly going forward.
Cortex A72/Snapdragon 820 have Core M-level performance. If Core M is good enough for a $400 Chromebook, then those are also good for a $300 touch-enabled Chromebook.
I'm curious why they didn't mention something so game changing as this in the keynote.
To the Googlers on here -- any idea when it'll come to Chrome browser on other platforms. I really hope Google doesn't artificially delay that to boost Chrome OS penetration.
http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/05/the-play-store-comes-... "The new model dumps the native-client based implementation for an unmodified copy of the Android Framework running in a container." Will you run chrome as root on your other platforms so it can start a container?