Lately, say in the last year or so, I have noticed that developers are cleaning up their apps and those that makes sense on the platform work very well. My experience with apps on a chromebook has gotten better and better.Īdmittedly, at first it all seemed redundant and, when combined with apps that just weren’t designed to work optimally, efforts and experiences were mostly negative to the point of wondering what the point was.
Mac os emulator for chromebook android#
Regardless, while it was easy to pile on to Google for a mediocre Android app experience on Chromebooks, a consensus of reviewers now know it’s not easy to bring a mobile app experience to Macs either. Additionally, I haven’t seen the bulk of Android app developers optimize their mobile apps for Chrome OS using Google’s recommendations, such as using responsive design techniques. Many Chromebooks are powered by chips with an x86 instruction set so there’s some recompiling or translation feature involved to run ARM-compiled Android apps. That’s because it runs the same ARM instruction set as the chips inside iPhones and iPads. However, there is a key benefit that Apple users will enjoy and that’s the fact that the iOS apps will generally run natively and won’t need to be recompiled for the new Apple M1 chip. The few times I do use an Android app on my Chromebooks, for example, is with the touchscreen and the display rotated back. In the case of iOS apps on a MacBook, that’s especially true to due to the lack of a touchscreen and the ability to fold the display over for tent or tablet mode. Multiple Chrome tabs, a PWA, Google Play Music Android app and Linux humming along. It’s super cool for a second to have instant native support for iOS on the Mac, but at the end of the day this is a marketing win, not a user experience win. Yes, that’s right, no full-screen iOS or iPad apps at all.
Mac os emulator for chromebook how to#
There is no default tool-tip that explains how to replicate common iOS interactions like swipe-from-edge - instead a badly formatted cheat sheet is buried in a menu.
The current iOS app experience on an M1 machine running Big Sur is almost comical it’s so silly. It really is the worst possible way to watch video on a Mac, but at least it’s available as an option, I guess. For instance, the HBO Max application can’t be resized and there’s no way to enter full-screen for video playback. The one surprise here, however, is that HBO Max is available on the Mac… but it’s not very good. Almost all of the streaming video services have chosen not to allow their apps to be run on the Mac, including Hulu, Netflix, Plex, and Amazon Prime Video.
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