Android apps can now be ported to Chrome

[Pritchy]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-32160263?ocid=socialflow_twitter

Google has released a tool that lets Android apps run on any machine that can run its Chrome browser.

Called Arc Welder, the tool acts as a wrapper around Android apps so they can run on Windows, OSX and Linux machines.

Will be interesting to see how they manage touch controls. I'm not entirely sure I see the point, but there you go!

 

[edgex004]

Really wish I could get this working on the Pandora. I always am running into problems. Installing Chromium under pandebian is missing hardware acceleration. Nightlies used to package the versions on the openpandora repo are too old to support the apps. More recent nightlies require a newer kernel than we have. Compiling Chromium is a nightmare, and I always get stumped when I try to set up the build environment. I still feel like I will figure something out one day...