Google Play is now bringing Android apps to Chromebooks

Sep22

by Sindy Cator on September 22, 2016 at 10:44 am

Posted In: Around the Web, Gadgets, Google

At its I/O developer conference in May, Google announced its plans to bring support for Android apps to Chrome OS; it subsequently launched Google Play on the platform’s developer channel for Chromebooks in June. Now, Google Play is rolling out to the stable channel. It’ll arrive in beta over the next several days in Chrome OS v53.0.2785.129 for the Acer Chromebook R11 and the Asus Chromebook Flip. That means you’ll be able to download, install and run Android apps natively on your Chromebook. Google noted that it would make its app store available on more Chrome OS-based machines later in…