You get a Google Play Store icon in your system tray after you’ve put your Asus Chromebook Flip on the Dev Channel and you have updated it. Click it and the Play Store – which by itself is an Android app – opens a window on your Chromebook. You can now install search the store and apps, just like you’re used to Android devices
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Play Store treat your Chromebook as an Android tablet 6, so you also get the tablet interface in apps. Apps you install appear in the app launcher and your taskbar if the applications have a window open. They are not restricted to a stranger separate interface, such as the Metro apps in Windows 8.
But the main question is whether it is working properly. And it works almost perfectly. If you’ve ever played with the previous solution from Google to run Android apps on a Chromebook, you’ll be amazed at how well it works.
While the Android Runtime for Chrome, or ARC, as the previous solution was called, you still limited to a few specially selected apps that had to be adjusted first and then installed from the Chrome Web Store gives the new Android support you direct access to the Google Play Store. And you may get busy at all. That’s because Google is a complete Android system running in a container next to Chrome OS. That’s not emulation, which is really Android.
Moreover, this support Android also has its problems. Some apps do not seem to work even if there are bugs in. But every app that we tried worked perfectly. However, you can currently only apps run in full screen or in a window with a fixed format. It would be nice if you could resize too.
In addition, notifications can be a bit unreliable, and apps can crash or freeze if we turn our Flip a stroke. With most other Chromebooks, you of course do not bother, in addition, this will only have the first release. Bugs are to be fixed. So yes, there still needs to be improved some things, but in essence it works all pretty good
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