{"id":195626,"date":"2017-01-24T07:59:45","date_gmt":"2017-01-24T05:59:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=195626"},"modified":"2017-01-24T08:01:00","modified_gmt":"2017-01-24T06:01:00","slug":"all-new-chromebooks-will-support-android-apps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/195626-all-new-chromebooks-will-support-android-apps.html","title":{"rendered":"All new Chromebooks will support Android apps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google has updated its\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/a\/chromium.org\/dev\/chromium-os\/chrome-os-systems-supporting-android-apps\" target=\"_blank\">list of devices<\/a><\/strong> with access to the Google Play marketplace to include all Chromebooks releasing in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>The company first <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/162968-chromebooks-set-to-receive-android-apps.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>announced<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0that certain Chromebook devices would support Android apps in May 2016. The support has now been expanded to all upcoming Chrome OS-powered laptops.<\/p>\n<p>Chromebooks are lightweight laptops built for cloud-based professional computing, sacrificing high-end hardware in favour of a cheap, lightweight notebook solution.<\/p>\n<p>There are currently three Chromebooks that support Android apps:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Asus Chromebook Flip<\/li>\n<li>Acer Chromebook R11\/C738T<\/li>\n<li>Google Chromebook Pixel<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Google said many current Chromebooks are also expected to gain support for the Google Play store in the future.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/195216-how-google-finds-android-malware.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">How Google finds Android malware<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google has updated its list of devices with access to the Google Play marketplace to include all Chromebooks releasing in 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":193598,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[397,2622],"class_list":["post-195626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-android","tag-chromebook"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195626"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195626"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":195630,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195626\/revisions\/195630"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}