Play Store and Android Apps Coming to Chromebooks

Re:Play Store and Android Apps Coming to Chromebooks by HNcow on Thursday May 19, 2016 @03:39PM (#11733106)

I'm not an expert in this field, but I did want to say that I had an Asus Zenfone 2 (x86 phone) for a brief time, and app compatibility was never an issue. I ran into 0 apps that I couldn't run.

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Re:Play Store and Android Apps Coming to Chromebooks by mrmose on Thursday May 19, 2016 @04:00PM (#11733280)

I had the Zenfone 2 as well, and the notable exception to that was Snapchat. About six months ago, they stopped making x86 versions of the app, and video was pretty pitiful.

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Re:Play Store and Android Apps Coming to Chromebooks by Splendor on Thursday May 19, 2016 @04:29PM (#11733526)

Have you had a chance to compare that to the performance of their non-x86 app? I'm curious because I've found SnapChat to perform exceptionally poorly on every Android device I've tried.

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Re:Play Store and Android Apps Coming to Chromebooks by mrmose on Thursday May 19, 2016 @06:25PM (#11734356)

Yes. No issue with the Nexus 5. Recording video with the Zenfone 2 was pretty poor -- totally choppy.

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