OperaMini
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| 19 Sep 2014 12:31 PM |
Copying the article from OMGChrome:
"-- Google may need to take their time in bringing select Android apps to the Chrome Web Store — needing to ensure compatibly, stability, and an integrated experience — but the community has no such speed bumps standing in its way. --
Having made a command-line tool able to package up virtually any Android application to run on Chrome OS through the Android Runtime extension (with varying degrees of success), developer Vlad Filippov has now gone one better: it’s now possible to run Android apps on Chrome on Windows, Mac and Linux.
Yes, you read that right: Filippov has found a way to run Androids app on desktop PCs through Chrome.
It requires installing a custom version of the Android Runtime extension, called ARChon. This supports both desktop Chrome and Chrome OS, and also allows for an unlimited number of Android APKs packaged by the chromeos-apk tool.
Your milage may vary, of course.
As with the “v1″ hack, getting Android apps running on Chrome requires some manual effort, technical acumen and familiarity with your system’s command line prompt. APKs packaged up also need to be installed (“unpacked”, in Chrome-speak) manually.
ARChon also replaces the official extension provided by Google. If you find it too unstable you’ll need to uninstall it and reinstall the blessed one from the Web Store.
But, faff or no faff, it’s an exciting, if shaky, first step towards a cross-platform ideal many have longed for. You can keep track of which APKs have been tested in the Chrome-apk subreddit.
The GitHub project page offers a full walkthrough of how to get it up and running. If you can’t quite follow the steps provided feel free to ask questions in the comments below."
Google "ARChon Custom Runtime Guide" and click the github link if you want it.
Has anyone tried this on an ARM chromebook? Does this let ARM chromebooks run roblox and other games available on android? I haven't tested it, but this could let you run emulators for android if it's fast enough. |
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Jupiter33
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| 19 Sep 2014 12:34 PM |
''Copying the article from OMGChrome'' That's plagiarism. Go to jail.
Saying Jupiter33 is the same as saying the word baseball |
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OperaMini
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| 19 Sep 2014 12:36 PM |
"That's plagiarism. Go to jail"
See:
"to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one's own : use (another's production) without crediting the source - to commit literary theft : present as new and original an idea or product derived from an existing source"
You are being arrested for incorrect use of the word "plagiarism".
On the other hand, I'm left-handed. |
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blobbem
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| 19 Sep 2014 12:39 PM |
| Neat...? I don't really have a use for apps typically found on phones, but I guess it is nice to have the option there. |
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OperaMini
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| 19 Sep 2014 12:41 PM |
"Neat...? I don't really have a use for apps typically found on phones, but I guess it is nice to have the option there."
It's not that useful for desktops, but for ARM chromebooks it can mean that they now have a PSP emulator and similar apps.
On the other hand, I'm left-handed. |
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blobbem
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| 19 Sep 2014 12:43 PM |
'but for ARM chromebooks it can mean that they now have a PSP emulator and similar apps.'
A PSP emulator? Cool. |
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| 19 Sep 2014 12:44 PM |
| OperaMini? I haven't seen you in years. |
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