Android app Beta on Chrome OS will last until this summer

With Google's strategic realignment, its pre-installed Chrome OS Cloud operating system, the Chromebook notebook, which runs the education market, has finally embraced the ability to run Android apps. as a result, Chromebook can not only run WEB applications, but also use "local apps". However, according to foreign media reports, the project will be trapped in the search for the bug "beta" months, this summer will not open a new stage. Although Microsoft did not reveal a little at the recent I/O 2017 developer Conference, the foreign media caught the opportunity to ask the Chrome OS Product Management senior executive Kan Liu a few words.

Kan Liu said "Don't want to make too much commitment", but also revealed that Google will soon be "ready to launch compelling products", and we have been quite expected at the beginning of this year.

First of all, good news.--google is expected to release Chromebook Pro on May 28 with full support for Android apps running on the Nougat platform. Kan Liu said:

This is the first time we have released this new version.

Next, the next day, Chrome OS might grab some new features of Android before it's on the mobile platform.

Desserts (Android Development code) tend to be an annual release cycle, but Chrome OS is keen to get rid of this because the Chromebook release cycle is only 6 weeks.

In other words, starting with Android O, Google will start to get Android apps to run on Chrome OS before they grab the phone.

For the user's most important application development interface (API) and related features, we will be ready to push the first time.

"Update" However, Google has clarified that the new features in Android O will not arrive at the Chromebook platform in front of the phone this year.

In addition to the bad news, even though Chromebook Pro has been released, Chrome OS (technically) is still in Beta, so it is not fully capable of supporting window scaling, placing apps on the side of the screen, and split screens. (to wait until later this year)

In the words of Kan Liu:

For most users, Android apps running on Chrome OS are 80% ready.

However, the initial 80% only accounted for the Chrome OS team's 20%, and the remaining 20% took 80% of the effort to complete.

Android app Beta on Chrome OS will last until this summer