If the report is accurate, some of these features will drastically change how your Chromebook communicates with your Android device.
Use webpush protocol with generated VAPID key. Share text from Android to any device clipboard supported. The spotted code has what appears to be a new set of features meant to further strengthen the bond between Android and Chrome OS as two individual platforms. Google, however, isn’t resting on its laurels if recent reports are to be believed as Chrome Story recently found some code snippets which suggests that the company is planning something big for Android and Chrome OS.Īndroid does have some level of integration with Chrome OS but to be honest they aren’t as refined as the alternative experience of iOS and macOS or Microsoft attempted with Windows Mobile and Windows. Google isn’t the first company to try to unite its smartphone and computer platforms into one workable system as companies like Apple and Microsoft have been at it for quite a while now with the latter forced to ax its smartphone business due to poor sales and slow adoption, the former, however, is perfectly set up on both platforms. One can argue that Google has in fact worked out some of the most difficult kinks involved in establishing a sustained relationship between your smartphone and computer: that is in the case of Android and Chrome OS but continuity between both platforms continues to lack as well as seamless synchronization as you can experience on macOS. Source Google Working to Better Integrate Android With ChromeĬreating a functional/connected relationship between smartphones and computers has been the tech world’s biggest nuisance. In the meantime, you’d be in luck if you own any of the devices below as they are the only ones that support the #crostini-gpu-support at the time of this writing. As we mentioned above, Crostini GPU Support is relatively new and definitely a work in progress so expect bugs and unstable performance issues pending the official debut later in August. Mind you, there are a few things you should, in fact, consider before you take this for a test drive. This theoretically means you could run AAA titles via steam as demonstrated in the video above. The new feature was first noticed by Keith I Myers who tested a feature named “Crostini GPU Support.” Portal on the Pixel Slate About Chromebooks Pending that time, you can watch a video of Kevin at About Chromebooks playing Portal via steam on his Pixel Slate. He recognized this lack in Linux app functionality as a critical bug and hopes Google pushes out a patch in the next update. He went on to restart his system in the hopes of trying a steam game or graphics intensive app to no avail. Jesse, on the other hand, does own a Google Pixelbook and according to him, he did enable the GPU acceleration flag (#crostini-gpu-support) right after updating his system to the latest dev build (.0). I own the Dell Chromebook 13 and up until this day, I haven’t had the chance to try out Linux beta on my Chromebook. 
With Linux Beta becoming a norm for all Chrome OS powered devices going forward, this has presented a unique opportunity for Chromebook users who will be happy to learn that GPU acceleration is coming to Linux with support already available for select devices on the beta/dev channel with a stable channel availability set for the Chrome OS 76 update in early August. The company introduced Stadia, streaming services specifically dedicated to gaming to compete with juggernauts like Microsoft and Sony.īut, Stadia might not be the only card that Google has up its sleeves. Gaming has become a highly contested market and the mega search giant wants in on the party. Gaming has become an important segment of the grand plan that Google has for the titular platform which is Chrome OS. PS: I am happy to see many of you regularly commenting on my articles.Chrome OS Weekly S1 Ep 5 GPU Acceleration coming to Linux Apps I have also seen Google promoting Duo through TV commercials. It has 500 million installations, per Google Play Store.Īre you a Google Duo user? Let me know in comments! I know that there are plenty of Duo users here in India. Allo never took off and is expected to be officially shelved soon. Allo is a text based chat app and Duo is exclusively for video calls.įor better or worse, this proved to be the right thing to do. Google took a different approach with Allo and Duo. Traditionally, chat apps add video calls as a built-in feature. Google Duo was launched in 2016, along with the WhatsApp-like Allo chat app.
If you find any unsupported device, do let me know in comments and I will add it to the post. Google Duo is supported on the latest Stable release of Chrome OS. Redditor u/gabriele_tng reported this on the /r/ChromeOS subreddit and I can see many users confirming that they were able to install this on their Chromebooks.
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