As you may know, Google has begun pushing Android applications on the Chrome Web Store. In other words, you can now run a handful of applications on Android Chromebook or Chromebox. But as I pointed out, it is already possible to run Android applications that are not available in the online store applications Chrome. Indeed, it just takes a little work to prepare and load applications.
Now the developer who discovered how to load unsupported Android applications on a Chromebook has also figured out how to do this with Windows, OS X, and Linux.
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The developer presented its Vladikoff Archon project which is a modified version of the Chrome App Runtime for . It allows you to run any Android application on Chrome OS, but in addition to these features, it also runs on Windows, OS X, and Linux. Indeed, it is able to run Android apps on another system that runs the Google Chrome web browser 37 or more.
To install, you simply go to the page chrome: // extensions , activate Developer mode and load the uncompressed file Archon.
Know that you will still need to prepare your Android applications manually before loading, and runtime modified may be unstable when used on a system that is not Chrome OS. But it provides a way to run Android applications as though they were native applications on Windows, OS X or Linux, without having to install an emulator or a virtual machine.
More details are available at GitHub developer pages Vladikoff on projects ChromeOS-APK and Archon Custom Runtime .
All Android apps will not work with this method of side-loading by ChromeOS-APK . Most paid apps do not work properly, and other applications crachs if they rely on frameworks or other items that are not available. But you can find many applications running (and APK files for many free applications that have already been prepared to run on Chrome) from this link .
Note that this is probably a good idea to prepare your own APK files because installing apps from links on the web is not always a good idea.
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The developer presented its Vladikoff Archon project which is a modified version of the Chrome App Runtime for . It allows you to run any Android application on Chrome OS, but in addition to these features, it also runs on Windows, OS X, and Linux. Indeed, it is able to run Android apps on another system that runs the Google Chrome web browser 37 or more.
To install, you simply go to the page chrome: // extensions , activate Developer mode and load the uncompressed file Archon.
More details are available at GitHub developer pages Vladikoff on projects ChromeOS-APK and Archon Custom Runtime .
All Android apps will not work with this method of side-loading by ChromeOS-APK . Most paid apps do not work properly, and other applications crachs if they rely on frameworks or other items that are not available. But you can find many applications running (and APK files for many free applications that have already been prepared to run on Chrome) from this link .
Note that this is probably a good idea to prepare your own APK files because installing apps from links on the web is not always a good idea.