Chromebook apps?

[ELS Prothero]

Thanks for the perspective, Jacque,
Hmm, it could be venturing into a swamp for me, tho. Given the popularity of Chromebooks, it would be great if Livecode could be invested in support for them. In my own case, I need to be cautious about where I spend my effort. I’m a happily retired ex-educator and giving away any apps I make, so getting into an area with a lot of deployment idiosyncrasies may not be realistic.

Have a nice thanksgiving, all Yanks and Yank sympathizers! 

Bill

William Prothero
http://es.earthednet.org

> On Nov 25, 2020, at 11:56 PM, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
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> Right, for Chromebooks you'd develop an Android app. I've been testing two different client projects on Chromebooks. For the most part they run okay, depending on the hardware. One of my apps in particular runs beautifully in tablet mode, but if you rotate the screen to desktop mode it loses its window coordinates and draws incorrectly. That's probably my fault, since the app is locked to portrait orientation. In portrait mode, with fullscreenMode on, it looks great and behaves well. If you launch it in desktop mode it opens in a window the size of the original stack and works fine as long as you don't try to resize the window.
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> But appearance and behavior can vary depending on the Chromebook. I'm having pretty good luck with my Lenovo but my client's Asus sometimes doesn't draw the content quite right. I can't recall the details, something about color I think. I'd love it if LC could look at Chromebook support at some point. It's almost there already, and as you say, Chromebook support is almost mandatory if you are developing for the education market. In fact, with so many schools closed down and students working remotely, Chromebooks are in such high demand that they've become harder to find. They're very popular. Our market is college and university students and a lot of them use Chromebooks. When they ask, we tell them the app may run on their Chromebook but we can't provide support.
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> On a more personal note, I love my Chromebook. They're very fast (they wake from sleep before the lid is fully opened,) virtually immune to malware, lightweight, inexpensive, and extremely portable. They've come a long way from the time when they were basically just a big web browser.
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> HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com
>> On November 25, 2020 11:54:54 PM prothero--- via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
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>> Folks:
>> My son is a 5’th grade teacher. He tells me that apps for elementary school learning must run on ChromeBooks to be used in elementary school. I just want to verify that this means I would be developing an Android app for a Chromebook.
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>> I also wonder if there are minimal requirements for a Chromebook that will run Android apps. I’m in the “thinking about it” stage right now, but would like to hear about any experience or gotchas I need to be aware of for Chromebook apps.
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>> Thanks,
>> Bill
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>> William A. Prothero
>> Santa Barbara, CA. 93105
>> http://earthlearningsolutions.org/
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