[sword-devel] Chromebooks

Timmy tim.bze at gmail.com
Tue Mar 17 06:48:25 EDT 2020


Greetings, I don't know how chrome book runs Android apps, but there's a
little info here from some years ago about a user running And Bible on
Google Chrome browser.
https://github.com/AndBible/and-bible/wiki/Running-And-Bible-in-Chrome

Blessings
Timmy

On Tue, Mar 17, 2020, 02:34 Szabó Kristóf Imre <kristof.szabo at lutheran.hu>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I don't own a Chromebook myself, but the concept is there to use web
> applications wherever possible (the systems have limitied storage by
> design, if I'm not mistaken). There is technical possibility to install/run
> Linux applications, but it is not enabled by default.
>
> Kind regards,
> Kristof
>
> On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 3:51 AM Troy A. Griffitts <scribe at crosswire.org>
> wrote:
>
>> We just received a 1 star review for Bishop from a Chromebook user.
>>
>> I didn't know Chromebook users could run Android applications
>> officially.  I had heard it was experimental at one point but didn't
>> know it ever reached production.
>>
>> Bishop (and I am guessing a ton of other Android apps) aren't geared
>> toward devices with keyboards (e.g., we have a grid book and chapter
>> selector for easy Bible navigation from a small touch screen; that's not
>> how I would want to navigate if I had a keyboard).
>>
>> Do we have any apps specifically targeting Chromebooks?  Do they run
>> Linux apps?
>>
>> May everyone stay COVID-19-free,
>>
>> Troy
>>
>>
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