{"id":270,"date":"2016-04-28T18:31:45","date_gmt":"2016-04-28T18:31:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.arivisti.com\/?p=270"},"modified":"2016-04-28T18:31:45","modified_gmt":"2016-04-28T18:31:45","slug":"is-google-play-finally-headed-to-chrome-os","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.arivisti.com\/?p=270","title":{"rendered":"Is Google Play Finally Headed to Chrome OS?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.arivisti.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/480312-google-play-store.jpg\" alt=\"480312-google-play-store\" width=\"100%\" height=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-271\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.arivisti.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/480312-google-play-store.jpg 740w, https:\/\/blog.arivisti.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/480312-google-play-store-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 740px) 100vw, 740px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Potentially good news, Chromebook users: Access to more than a million apps could be coming your way.<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>As Android Police reports, a Reddit user with the handle &#8220;\/u\/TheWiseYoda&#8221; recently discovered evidence that Google Play could soon be headed to Chrome OS. Hidden away in Chrome OS v51, which is only available to developers at this point, is a setting that says &#8220;Enable Android Apps to run on your Chromebook.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In and of itself, that&#8217;s not really saying anything \u2014 Android apps have been on Chrome OS for a while,&#8221; Android Police notes. Until now, however, &#8220;Android apps on Chrome OS have always felt like they didn&#8217;t really belong on Chrome,&#8221; but that could soon change with official support for Google Play.<\/p>\n<p>The option mysteriously disappeared right away, so the user didn&#8217;t have time to investigate any further. Others managed to enable the setting, however.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They found that it brings up a window with &#8216;Google Play store now on your Chromebook,'&#8221; Android Police says. &#8220;It also says users can choose from &#8216;over a million apps to install and use on your Chromebook.&#8217; Like the earlier checkbox, this window automatically closes pretty quickly, but the information is there for all to see.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Android Police speculates that Google may formally announce this at its I\/O conference, which takes place May 18-20. For now, we&#8217;ll just have to wait and see.<\/p>\n<p>The news follows reports late last year that Google was planning to fold Chrome OS into Android, a claim the Web giant denied. &#8220;While we&#8217;ve been working on ways to bring together the best of both operating systems, there&#8217;s no plan to phase out Chrome OS,&#8221; Hiroshi Lockheimer, SVP Android, Chrome OS, and Chromecast, wrote in a blog post at the time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Potentially good news, Chromebook users: Access to more than a million apps could be coming your way. As Android Police reports, a Reddit user with the handle &#8220;\/u\/TheWiseYoda&#8221; recently discovered evidence that Google Play could soon be headed to Chrome &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.arivisti.com\/?p=270\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"readm\">Read More \u27e9 <\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":271,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.arivisti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.arivisti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.arivisti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.arivisti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.arivisti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=270"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.arivisti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":272,"href":"https:\/\/blog.arivisti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270\/revisions\/272"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.arivisti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.arivisti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.arivisti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.arivisti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}