Android Applications on a Chromebook

Click here for an article by The Verge that explains about running Android Apps on ChromeOS.

Another browser can be useful

If you like having 'another string to your bow' then it's always good to have a second browser available that can be used if you think you are getting strange results from your main browser. You can get the Opera Browser for your Chromebook by downloading it from the Google Play Store.

Applications {Apps}

Read what else is available from the Chrome Web Store - an ever expanding selection of Apps that you can browse through and download.

The CloudReady OS brings Chrome OS experience to a range of computers other than Chromebooks.

While the native Chromebook platform running Chrome OS itself supports Apps found in the Chrome Store, Play Store, Linux and other sources it is unfortunate due to legal issues with licencing products used by Google that Neverware have stated there are no plans to support Android apps under Cloudready. This situation may well improve as Google has now acquired Neverware and may well 'roll-in' Cloudready to the main ChromeOS family.

Meanwhile it may be useful to think about the type of work you can, can't, undertake using CloudReady system by looking at the list of Smartphone Apps provided by AndroidPit, as well as those shown on the Office Suite page.

With regard to what are referred to as Microsoft Corporation Apps that may work now, or in the future ...

click here to see what is currently available in the Google Play Store.

click here to see what is currently available in the Chrome App Store.

Android Apps feature in this How To Geek article entitled "What to do if an App is Incompatible with Your Chromebook" - although intended for Chromebook users it may point you in the right direction for solutions on Cloudready.

Click here to see the official Google lists [for 'All', 'Business' and 'Developers' categories] that you can look through by paging down to the "All products" heading in the middle of the page and opening the appropriate twisty section below it.

These products are available as standard [free] Apps on smartphones, Web Apps using your browser, and some other dedicated hardware.

Click here to see a ChromeUnboxed article "How to send and receive text messages on your Chromebook with Google Messages."

Click here to see an example of these products [free Apps and Web Apps] where Jack Wallen @ TechRepublic shares the way he uses the Messenger App / PWA on his Chromebook so that he can take advantage of a full size keyboard for SMS messaging etc.

Click here to see a related article that shows you how to eradicate spam SMS messages on your Android smartphone which obviously benefits your use of the above Messenger App too.