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Re:Play Store and Android Apps Coming to Chromebooks by bitmapbrother on Thursday May 19, 2016 @03:43PM (#11733127)
Most apps ship with multiple binaries for the appropriate architecture. For those apps that don't have the necessary binaries the native code will be translated on the fly to the host architecture instruction set. Since Chromebook's are significantly faster than smartphones the small performance hit shouldn't be noticeable.
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Re:Play Store and Android Apps Coming to Chromebooks by sounds on Thursday May 19, 2016 @03:49PM (#11733178)
There are also many Arm Chromebooks.
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Re:Play Store and Android Apps Coming to Chromebooks by Grazester on Thursday May 19, 2016 @03:56PM (#11733253)
Are there?
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Re:Play Store and Android Apps Coming to Chromebooks by 0x6c6f6c on Thursday May 19, 2016 @04:07PM (#11733347)
They are pretty well split.

Many x86 Chromebooks offer several tiers that obfuscate the data, but in terms of product line releases, they're about 50/50.

Both Samsung Chromebooks, ASUS Chromebook Flip, HP Chromebook 14 G3, Haier and Hisense's both as well, for example, are ARM devices.

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Re:Play Store and Android Apps Coming to Chromebooks by Grazester on Thursday May 19, 2016 @09:24PM (#11735070)
Ah, the list of x-86 Chromebooks easily out number the ARM ones available.
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Re:Play Store and Android Apps Coming to Chromebooks by thescriptkiddie on Thursday May 19, 2016 @03:51PM (#11733202)
Source? On Android and under ARC you're SOL if an NDK app doesn't provide binaries for your architecture. This is rarely an issue though, as most apps just opt to ship with binaries compiled for every supported ABI.

https://developer.android.com/ndk/guides/abis.html

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Re:Play Store and Android Apps Coming to Chromebooks by izacus on Thursday May 19, 2016 @03:55PM (#11733233)
That's not really true - x86 devices mostly come with libhoudini layer which can load and translate ARMv7 binaries on the fly. Hence if the app ships armeabi code you're pretty much set.
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Re:Play Store and Android Apps Coming to Chromebooks by bitmapbrother on Thursday May 19, 2016 @05:14PM (#11733909)
ARC is dead. The Android Framework in ChromeOS is now a container.
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Re:Play Store and Android Apps Coming to Chromebooks by twotavol on Thursday May 19, 2016 @03:54PM (#11733227)
"For those apps that don't have the necessary binaries the native code will be translated on the fly to the host architecture instruction set"

How would this happen?

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Re:Play Store and Android Apps Coming to Chromebooks by masklinn on Thursday May 19, 2016 @03:57PM (#11733256)
Via an ARM/Android emulator? There's already one in the android development suite.
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Re:Play Store and Android Apps Coming to Chromebooks by fla on Thursday May 19, 2016 @04:04PM (#11733319)
Thanks god no :) That would be really slow and painful. It is a translation layer, not an emulator.
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Re:Play Store and Android Apps Coming to Chromebooks by bitmapbrother on Thursday May 19, 2016 @05:13PM (#11733902)
binary translation.
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