[sword-devel] Chromebooks

[Manfred Bergmann]

Hi.

Here is a list of Chromebooks that support running Android apps.
https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/dev/chromium-os/chrome-os-systems-supporting-android-apps

A minor tweak must be done to the Android app to make it appear on the Play store on the Chromebook:
https://developer.android.com/topic/arc/index.html


Manfred

> Am 17.03.2020 um 11:48 schrieb Timmy <tim.bze at gmail.com>:
> 
> 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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