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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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