Google Makes Building Android Apps on Chrome OS Easier (techcrunch.com) 9
Google today launched ChromeOS.dev, a new site that aims to help developers get started with building Android apps for the company's Linux-based operating system. With today's update, Google is also making it easier to build and test Android applications on Chromebooks. From a report: The new ChromeOS.dev site, which is available in English and Spanish for now, is meant to "help developers maximize their capabilities on the platform through technical resources/tutorials, product announcements, code samples and more," a Google spokesperson told us. As Google notes in today's announcement, in the last quarter, Chromebook unit sales were up 127% year-over-year in the last quarter, compared to 40% for notebook sales in general. To help Android developers do all of their work on a Chromebook if they so desire, Google now offers the full Android Emulator on Chrome OS to test apps right on their Chromebooks. The team also made deploying apps on Chrome OS (M81 and newer) much easier. Developers can now deploy and test apps directly without having to use developer mode or connect devices via USB.
that can mean only one thing (Score:2)
You got that backwards (Score:2)
now everybody can flood the google playstore with crap and malware
Organizing your developer documentation in a more intelligent way is not really lowering the barrier to entry as much as it is making it easier to master a technology.
In the 21st century, the bane of the software industry is amateur friendly languages, like JavaScript and PHP which allowed a lot of people with no training and supervision to create programs that demoed well enough, but were riddled with inefficiencies, bugs, and security holes because these people were untrained and unsupervised. They
"On" ChromeOS (Score:2)
Since ChromeOS is a WWW thin-client, a more accurate preposition to use would be "from".
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No, it's a full Linux based OS. You can enable developer mode and install a chroot of whatever distro you want. Or use their Crostini VM infrastructure to run whatever Linux based VMs you want (technically it launches a VM, then distros are run as containers under that VM). The default distro is their own debian based one, but you can run others (Ubuntu, Arch, CentOS, etc). This is how Android Studio runs on Chromebooks. The built in Wayland compositor communicates with ChromeOS to make the applications app
Never seen one (Score:1)
I have never actually seen a Chromebook bought or used by anyone yet.
Phones, Laptops, iPads, Surfaces ? Yes
Chromebook ? Sorry no
Who actually buys these ?
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I have never actually seen a Chromebook bought or used by anyone yet.
Phones, Laptops, iPads, Surfaces ? Yes Chromebook ? Sorry no
Who actually buys these ?
It does seem to be a subset of people.
- My kid's school system uses Chromebooks
- I find they are nearly perfect for older adults not in IT, they use them, one of whom is a cousin of mine
- A friend uses a Chromebook for Zoom video conferences
otherwise not so often.