7
More Android Apps Added to
Chrome Web Store
Google an**unced that 7 new
Android Apps were
Added to the
Chrome Web Store.
ChromeStory found the full list:
Couchsurfing (travel),
Overdrive (borrow ebooks),
Cookpad (share recipes),
Packpoint (travel),
Homeaway (vacation rental property listings) and
AnkiDroid (learn flashcards).
These
Apps are only officially available for
Chrome OS, so you need a Chromebook to properly run them. If you use
Chrome for *******/Mac/Linux, you'll see this message: "This application is **t supported on this computer. Installation has been disabled."
Google developed an
Android Runtime for Chrome, so almost any
Android app can run in
Chrome without manually porting it.
Apps are gradually
Added to the
Chrome Web
Store because developers update their
Apps to work better in
Chrome for desktop. "The app code is all running on top of the
Chrome platform, specifically inside of Native Client. In this way the ARC (Android Runtime for Chrome)
Apps run in the same environment as other
Apps you can download from the
Chrome Web Store, even though they are written on top of standard
Android APIs,"
informs Google.
Unfortunately,
Chrome Web
Store doesn't have a collection for
Android apps. You can only find
apps also available for Android, but the page includes many bookmsrks to web apps.
Just in case you want to install
Android Apps in
Chrome for *******/Mac/Linux, there's an u**fficial way to do that: use the
ARChon Custom Runtime. "ARChon runtime lets you run unlimited number of
Android APKs created with chromeos-apk on
Chrome OS and across any desktop platform that supports Chrome." Install
ARChon Packager on your
Android device to
generate Chrome packages from
Apps installed on your phone or tablet.
