Play Store and Android Apps Coming to Chromebooks

Post by astrojams » Thu, May 19, 2016, 9:38 PM UTC

colemickens wrote: post #44

0x6c6f6c wrote: post #42

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Personally looking at HPs new Chromebook line coming out [0] Very sleek design, better than the Pixel imo, and several tiers if you don't want to start at $1k. [0]: http://store.hp.com/us/en/ContentView?storeId=10151&catalogI...

That HP does look enticing and I know it seems small, but I really like the Pixel 2015 having the USB Type-C on each side of the laptop. I can always plug in the cord without having to double back to run it under the laptop based on where the port is. Sometimes the extra foot lets me reach the power socket. (And less stress on the connector). (Though the lack of upstream kernel support means that I will probably go b…

Post by david-given » Thu, May 19, 2016, 9:43 PM UTC

jshevek wrote: post #62

headmelted wrote: post #17

Obviously there's no-one in the world that didn't know this was coming, but even so, I feel for the Remix OS guys. I assumed at the time their objective was to be acqui-hired by Google, but I can't see why there would be a reason for that now, or how they'd hope to compete in this situation. Congratulations to the Chrome O/S and Android teams. I was briefly on a Chromebook when my laptop packed in, and but for the ab…

"but for the absence of solid developer tools, I'd have stayed forever." Are you saying that Arch or Ubuntu and everything that runs on them aren't enough for you? Or that crouton hadn't evolved far enough at the time? These days you can run crouton in a window or a tab within ChromeOS. Launch an xterm or IntelliJ or whatever each into their own windows, displaying within ChromeOS. I'd say that the 2015 Pixel (plus c…

Post by jshevek » Thu, May 19, 2016, 9:45 PM UTC

stkoelle wrote: post #74

jshevek wrote: post #63

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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.

Yes I was thinking about getting IntelliJ on a Chromebook as android app.

Post by jbigelow76 » Thu, May 19, 2016, 9:48 PM UTC

izacus wrote: post #82

jbigelow76 wrote: post #80

I'd be more interested in seeing Electron apps on ChromeOS before Android apps, not expecting that to happen mind you, Electron on ChromeOS probably does nothing to move the Google ecosystem forward.

I guess people want more than 45 minutes of battery out of their Chromebooks.

Post by jhasse » Thu, May 19, 2016, 9:52 PM UTC

jshevek wrote: post #62

headmelted wrote: post #17

Obviously there's no-one in the world that didn't know this was coming, but even so, I feel for the Remix OS guys. I assumed at the time their objective was to be acqui-hired by Google, but I can't see why there would be a reason for that now, or how they'd hope to compete in this situation. Congratulations to the Chrome O/S and Android teams. I was briefly on a Chromebook when my laptop packed in, and but for the ab…

"but for the absence of solid developer tools, I'd have stayed forever." Are you saying that Arch or Ubuntu and everything that runs on them aren't enough for you? Or that crouton hadn't evolved far enough at the time? These days you can run crouton in a window or a tab within ChromeOS. Launch an xterm or IntelliJ or whatever each into their own windows, displaying within ChromeOS. I'd say that the 2015 Pixel (plus c…