Google pushes developers to adapt Android apps for Chromebooks

Google pushes developers to adapt Android apps for Chromebooks

3 years ago
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https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/12/android-app-usage-on-chromebooks-grew-sharply-this-year/

The number of people using Android Apps on Chromebooks grew 50 percent year over year, according to a blog post from Chrome OS product managers Fahd Imtiaz and Sanj Nathwani this week. The execs cited internal Google data recorded from 2020-2021.

In 2021, as some smartphones moved to Android 12, Google worked on updating Chromebooks to support Android 11, while attempting to boost security and performance by bringing Android on Chrome OS to a virtual machine, rather than a container. The company also improved its general usability, using runtime improvements to make the resizing and scaling of Android apps on Chromebooks work better, as well as app rendering.