The ramifications of this initiative could be huge for the Chrome OS as Google seeks to gain traction on Windows 8 and Mac OS X.īoth rival platforms are enjoying the benefits of mobile-style apps offering greater synchronicity with their smartphone and tablet equivalents. “In the meantime, please tell us which of your favourite Android apps you’d like to see on your Chromebook.” “Over the coming months, we’ll be working with a select group of Android developers to add more of your favorite apps so you’ll have a more seamless experience across your Android phone and Chromebook. Today, we’re making Chromebooks even more mobile by bringing the first set of Android apps to Chrome OS,” the company wrote on the Chrome blog. “Chromebooks were designed to keep up with you on the go-they’re thin and light, have long battery lives, resume instantly, and are easy to use. The convergence of Android apps on Chrome has been in the works since Google I/O in June and the company is in discussions with developers in order to bring more big hitters into play.Įventually the firm hopes it’ll take very little effort for devs to port their software over to the cloud-based computing platform.
That means the apps can be installed on Chromebook laptops and operated via a physical keyboard and mouse/trackpad rather than a touchscreen. Those apps, alongside language app Duolingo and kids’ reading app Sight Words are available to download from the Chrome Web Store today. (Again, see attached image.Popular Android apps like the short video-sharing tool Vine and the note-taking platform Evernote are now compatible with Google’s Chrome OS. Evernote has returned to adding links to screenshots instead of the screenshots themselves. I preferred this and was happy for the change, however it came about.Ī week ago, I had to start my phone in Safe Mode, and the reset some preferences and I had to re-login to some apps. Instead of a getting a link to the screenshot, I would just get a. If I wanted the screenshot to just be visible in the note, I'd have to download it, delete the link, and drag the image into the note.Īt some point, this changed. (See attached image.) That was annoying, because I'd have to click an eye icon to see the screenshot. When I first started using this Android Chrome / Share to Evernote method back in 2014, I would get an Evernote note with a link to a screenshot of the page. I don't know if this is technically the Web Clipper or not, I've just been using the default Share functionality in Chrome on Android.
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