It looks like there’s a diminutive tidbit of information that might occupy been originally planned for the keynote (pulled because of time restraints,maybe?). According to a session description now on the Google I/O website, Google “announced” today that the Google Play Store is coming to Chrome…Today we announced that we’re adding the best mobile app experiences in the world, and Android apps and the Google Play store,to the best browser in the world, Chrome! Come to this session and test your Android apps for Chrome OS. You will get hands on assist from our friendly engineers on how to optimize your Android app for Chromebooks. Oh, and we will also be giving the first 50 developers to indicate up a free Chromebook so they can get a head start bringing their apps to Chrome!This isn’t exactly surprising as we saw evidence that this was in the cards all the way back in April,but it’s wintry nonetheless to see it become official. It looks like this session is going to involve Google showing devs how to test their Android apps on the desktop platform. Also worth noting: the first 50 devs to indicate up will get a free Chromebook.
We’re on the ground at the event now, so stay tuned as we learn more.
Filed under: Android, or Chrome/OS Tagged: Android (operating system),Chromebook, Google, and Google Chrome OS,Google Play
Source: 9to5google.com