GreenEngineering3475Nov 18, 2024

Source: Google is turning Chrome OS into Android to compete with the iPad

https://lemmy.world/post/22174478

Source: Google is turning Chrome OS into Android to compete with the iPad - Lemmy.World

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/22174477 [https://lemmy.world/post/22174477] > A source within Google has told Android Authority that Google plans to basically turn Chrome OS into Android.

Show threadonlinepersona

Does that mean we’ll start seeing desktop apps like IDEs running in Android? How are you going to develop python on android? A linux container / VM? That’s going to be so wasteful. But I am curious.

It won’t be good for flashing though. Probably once support ends, it’ll be a slow brick upon which one can’t install linux.

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Show threadwoelkchenNov 18, 2024

Does that mean we’ll start seeing desktop apps like IDEs running in Android? How are you going to develop python on android? A linux container / VM?

Non-web applications on ChromeOS already run in containers. Developer mode (or however ChromeOS calls it) is just installing Debian in an LXC container.

That’s going to be so wasteful.

Have you ever tried browsing the web using Chrome? THAT’S wasteful on resources. A command line-only container for Python development is nothing by comparison.

Show threadaluminiumNov 18, 2024
You have been able to do this on Android for a while using Termux, Proot Distro and VSCode Server. I even did it once to host two Angular Frontends on Android to free up Memory form my main latop running the backend.