A lot of interesting revelations have come out of Google I/O so far, with the overall message being Google’s unified, cross-platform software setup via Android and Chrome. That’s going to extend to apps too, according to senior vice president Sundar Pichai.
Speaking during the Google I/O keynote, Pichai said the initiative was “in early days”, but that the company intends to introuce native Android app support to the Chrome OS – it was demonstrated live on-stage with Android versions of Evernote, Flipboard, and Vine.
Google has tailored these demo apps to run in a couple of modes, it’s effectively a kind of virtual emulation as the app runs either as a phone-size window or a tablet-size one on the OS desktop.
What remains to be seen is how Google will tackle the touchscreen conundrum – Android apps are designed for touch, while Chromebooks have non-touch dispays, on the whole, even though Chromebook Pixel does support Chrome OS on touch devices. While Google has said precisely squat about what to expect in the form of future Chromebook devices, it seems pretty likely that Google is going more towards touch and will take OEMS with it – expect to see more touchscreen Chromebooks going into 2015.
by pbriden via Featured Articles
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