Come this June and consumers utilizing the Chrome Operating System of technology giant Google will have access to all the applications of Android’s Play Store.
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For the first time, the shipments of Google’s Chromebook devices surpassed that of rival Apple’s Mac laptops and PCs in the United States in the first quarter of 2016, said IDC analyst Linn Huang while talking to The Verge.
Google Play Store on Chrome OS will be available only on Chromebook Pixel 2, Asus Chromebook Flip and Acer Chromebook R11. The fall Chrome OS update will better equip businesses and schools with apps they want, without requiring the developers of those apps to build a separate Chrome app, Sheth said.
One of the features of Android N that Google shared at Google I/O 2016 is seamless updates.
“We’ve spend a lot of time and made good progress at enabling offline for Chromebooks based on the web, but the web wasn’t fundamentally design for offline”, senior product director for Chrome Kan Liu said, according to Engadget.
At I/O, Google also released the Android N Developer Preview 3 which was claimed by Google to be the first beta-quality candidate that will be suitable to test on a user’s primary smartphone or tablet.
Google has officially announced that the Play Store will be heading to ChromeOS-powered Chromebooks. The native support would ensure smooth transition and independent ecosystem for all the apps.
It hopes to bring the apps to a beta version in the next few months and then finally to Chromebooks. Android apps already run (kinda) on Chrome OS; some kind of merging of the two platforms could well be coming. This means that the apps that you were running on your phones and tablets will now run on Chromebooks as well.
In a report by USA Today, Google announced the new app at the I/O developer conference in Mountain View, California on Wednesday.
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Google Play Store adds the feature that All the purchases and even from the cloud documents could be synced across the device groups in the new feature.
