Google might have made it possible to launch Android apps on
almost any device as part of the latest developer preview of its App Runtime
for Chrome (ARC) project.
The new features make it so that ARC can run on any desktop
OS that has the Chrome browser installed, and opens up the ability to launch
Android apps on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X and Chrome
OS, according to ArsTechnica.
Google's updated ARC project also allows developers to run
their app on ARC via a new Chrome app packager, and the only platform excluded
is of course iOS.
Originally Google ARC was designed to let Android apps run
on Chrome
OS. However, shortly after it was launched, a hack found the full potential
of the project to run on any machine, and that has now been added as a full
feature.
ARC is able to run Windows, Mac, Linux and Chrome OS through
a Native Client (NaCL), which is a sandboxing technology that lets Chrome apps
run at close to native speeds and fully harness a machine's CPU and GPU.
Is it that easy?
Of course it isn't as easy as that and developers will need
to play around with the ARC Welder and submit the app to the Chrome Web Store
before it can actually run.
What ARC and the NaCL do is champion Google's strategy to
make sure that developers write more apps for the Android ecosystem and they
then work on more devices than ever - never a bad thing from a consumer point
of view.
Article From :
http://www.techradar.com/news/software/applications/chrome-users-can-now-run-1-3-million-android-apps-1290145 By : Jamie Hinks
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