As promised during Google I/O earlier this year, the first Android apps for Chromebooks have arrived.
Machines running Google's Chrome OS can now run the Vine, Evernote, Duolingo and Sight Words Android apps on their desktops.
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The first class of apps are part of Google's App Runtime for Chrome (beta), the project that Google's head of Android Sundar Pichai first revealed earlier this year during Google I/O. The project is part of Google's broader effort to make Android and Chrome OS a more unified experience.
Given Chromebook's prevalence in schools, it's not surprising that two of the first apps Google would choose to push to the platform first are educational apps: Duolingo and Sight Words. Duolingo is a language-learning app and Sight Words is an app to teach children how to read.
The other two apps-- Vine and Evernote-- were apps Pichai demoed onstage during I/O, though other apps that made an appearance during I/O, like Flipboard, were missing from the group of inaugural apps.
The company said in a blog post they are "working with a select group of developers" to bring more apps to the platform in "the coming months."
In the meantime, Google is also taking suggestions from Chromebook users on which apps they want to see come to Chromebook next.