If you want to develop for Chrome OS, you need to build Chromium OS from source and try to install it on generic PC hardware or a VM.

No such SDK equivalent or installable runtime environment exists for Chrome OS - which runs Android applications. Requiring small developers to buy Chromebooks is a bad ideaĪndroid has a fairly robust and very mature SDK, Android Studio, which provides a comprehensive IDE and a device emulator on Windows, Mac, and Linux so that apps can be tested and debugged before deploying to a target device. But it could be several years away before we even see functional beta versions of it.īut, for now, we have Android and its various APIs as the main programmatic target for apps running on its two main platforms: Android Pie and Chrome OS. We also know Google is working on a successor to Android, called Fuchsia. There are also a number of legal issues being worked out, and it is a possible major liability for the company in its litigation with Oracle.Īlso: Google Pixel Slate tablet: Cheat sheet TechRepublic

There may be a number of reasons for this: As a brand name, Google already appears to be phasing out Android, as it pertains to platforms (with Android Wear becoming Wear OS), and dropping the moniker from a number of its own apps, such as with Pay and Messages, preferring to just use the name Google as the main brand for many of its applications and services. Who's Google turning into now? Amazon? The open-source OS that shall not be named? Why is Google not using the 'Android' name?

Is Pixel Slate a threat to the iPad or Surface?Īpparently, I wasn't the only one who noticed that, during Google's presser unveiling of the Pixel 3 and Pixel Slate, the word 'Android' wasn't mentioned a single time.

Google's Chromebook looks like a Surface knock-off.

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