First set of Android apps for ChromeOS

Re:First set of Android apps for ChromeOS by AdmiralAsshat on Thursday September 11, 2014 @03:29PM (#8304628)

Before they can implement 3), they have to actually make ChromeOS scale nicely to high-res displays. I've got a Chromebook Pixel that usually runs at slightly below 1080p (closest possible with 3:2 ratio) despite having a max of 2560 x 1700, simply because the max res is unusable in Google's own OS without a massive amount of tweaking. UI does not scale, taskbar does not scale, have to manually bump up the font size within Chrome, etc. It's embarrassing.

And I say this as someone who really likes the Pixel otherwise.

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Re:First set of Android apps for ChromeOS by rawatson on Thursday September 11, 2014 @04:10PM (#8304858)

I'm posting from a ChromeBook pixel running at 2560 x 1700, and the UI looks great. The taskbar, UI, fonts, etc. are all scaled perfectly.

Have you tried running at 2560 x 1700 on the most up-to-date version of ChromeOS? Some of the issues you had may have been fixed in more recent Chrome releases.

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Re:First set of Android apps for ChromeOS by mjcohen on Thursday September 11, 2014 @05:29PM (#8305260)

I'm posting from an Acer C720 docked to a 1920 x 1080 Benq monitor, and it looks and works just fine. If Open Office was working on ChromeOS, my joy would be extreme.

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Re:First set of Android apps for ChromeOS by higherpurpose on Thursday September 11, 2014 @05:44PM (#8305334)

Which goes to my point - that it would be even easier to do 3) on Android, than it is to do it now on ChromeOS, since Android has nice resolution scaling.

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