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Chromebooks With Android Apps: The List Gets Longer

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by Gabriel Brangers
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The list of Chrome devices with official support for Android Apps has just been updated by the Chromium developers. It seems our prediction of a snowball effect of the Play Store roll out may be coming to fruition as 34 Chromebooks are now listed to support Android in either the Stable or Beta Channel of Chrome OS.

If you have been waiting for an update, you can check out the official developer’s list at the link below.

Chrome Devices With Android Apps

Keep in mind, this is just the developer’s list and it has been a bit behind what we have been seeing in the wild. I will update the Chrome Unboxed list in the morning to reflect the devices we know have Play Store access.

If your Chromebook has Android Apps and you don’t see it on the list drop us a line or comment below.Tell us your device, channel and Chrome OS/Android version. We will do our best to keep the list as up-to-date as possible.

With the pending plausibility of an October Google event and the release of Chromebook Eve, I would anticipate this list continuing its rapid expansion over the month of September.

Exciting time in the world of Chrome OS.

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  • Steven Still

    Hi. HP 11 g5 (not the EE) also has play store in the beta channel.

  • George Gordon

    Asus 200C Has play store in the beta channel

  • Jason M. Ellis

    Does the Chromebook Thinkpad 13 have the Play Store yet?

  • wilton merritt

    My Asus C300 has access in the dev channel. Just install the Amazon Prime Video app.

  • Daniel Thursfield

    The rollout is painfully slow.. why do Google keep doing it this way. Roll it out when it’s finished to all instead. Now some devices have it and others on the list don’t. Not often I praise Apple for anything but Google should take a page from their book on how to rollout new things.

    • RMP

      In this specific instance, likely very, very few would agree with you on the superiority of a big-bang roll-out. Time and time again Google proves that it lives by a governing business rule: there are no rules (excluding things like government regulation). That rule seems to have worked well for Google, though maybe not so much for Apple or MSFT.

  • Warren Mcclure

    Good to see the Acer chromebook 15 is getting the update, thanks for this update

  • Sheriff Joe

    Acer 14 Chromebook for work got it on the stable channel today. One thing I absolutely hate. Not sure what to call it, so I’ll call it the floating margin scroll up and down on the right side. Used to just be able to go in with the pointer anywhere on the screen, and scroll up and down. Now, the margin is smaller, disappears, and the only way to move up and down is with the arrow keys. That works OK on a touchscreen like the pro, but not on a non touchscreen. Wish there was some way to turn it off. . I thought it was just a thing on the Samsung Chromebook Pro just because of the unique Screen size, but it must be because of the Android app update.

    • MikeOnBike

      Thanks for pointing that out. I always scroll with two fingers on the trackpad, so I hadn’t noticed the scrollbars being different.

      It looks like if you move the mouse to the scrollbar, it will widen enough to “grab” it.

    • jis

      You can switch off Android Apps support to test whether your observation is connected with enabled Android Apps support or if it is just one of minor changes which bring Chrome OS 60.

      I didn’t noticed any changes in scrollbars, because I always scroll with two fingers on the touchpad or with mouse wheel.