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Play Store and Android Apps Coming to Chromebooks
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#102I'm curious why they didn't mention something so game changing as this in the keynote.
Anyone know what would happen if one were to install BOTH the Android AND Chrome OS version of an app (e.g. Gmail)?
Best bet, they're kept separately. Different runtimes (one JRE, one browser environment).
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#104Earlier quoted context omitted.
I had the Zenfone 2 as well, and the notable exception to that was Snapchat. About six months ago, they stopped making x86 versions of the app, and video was pretty pitiful.
Have you had a chance to compare that to the performance of their non-x86 app? I'm curious because I've found SnapChat to perform exceptionally poorly on every Android device I've tried.
Yes. No issue with the Nexus 5. Recording video with the Zenfone 2 was pretty poor -- totally choppy.
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#105Earlier quoted context omitted.
Crouton in a window doesn't really work so well --- on my Asus Flip it frequently forgets to redraw the window after changes, which makes it nigh unusable. I haven't tried rootless mode, though. I'll agree with you about Chromebooks for developers, though (well, if you like doing everything from text mode, which I do). My ARM-based Flip is a lovely machine. Cheap, ultraportable, completely silent, ludicrous battery l…
That's too bad about the Flip and the screen not redrawing. The Pixel doesn't seem to have this problem, and its runs android studio on X no problem. It can do AS on X in a window or tab, or as a separate desktop. The last mode seems to require the two systems to handing over low level control of the hardware to each other, whereas the first two modes are more seamless. So yes trying the other approach might solve th…
Okay, yeah, the Pixel's obviously using the older graphics stack. The new one's called Freon and is apparently loads simpler and faster... but has a few side effects.
(It still has a VC, although the VC2 shell is actually a user-space program called frecon which draws text via Freon. Switching from VC1 to VC2 is super seamless. So it's obviously possible somehow to draw full-screen graphics through Freon.)
Also, I agree; the crosh window is surprisingly good, and interacts nicely with full screen. Bit slow, though. `ls -lR` will wedge the window for a while until it flushes its buffer.
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#106After the Android Chrome app gets extensions, what's the point of keeping ChromeOS alive? It's the only thing Android's missing that ChromeOS has.
> It's the only thing Android's missing that ChromeOS has.
Except for instant boot times, really paranoid security and a long list of supportive laptop OEMs
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#107from the post:
> Schools in the US are now buying more Chromebooks than all other devices combined -- and in Q1 of this year, Chromebooks topped Macs in overall shipments to become the #2 most popular PC operating system in the US*.
that's pretty amazing actually. congrats to google & the chromebook team!
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#109Why are Chromebooks such a US phenomenon... Here in Australia retail availability is pretty dire. I wonder if this development might see that start to change?
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#110Why are Chromebooks such a US phenomenon... Here in Australia retail availability is pretty dire. I wonder if this development might see that start to change?
I don't think they are as successful in the state as you might think