Chromebook apps?

Kee Nethery kee.nethery at elloco.com
Thu Nov 26 12:26:24 EST 2020


If you are deploying a single purpose system, for example voter registration or data collection or multiuser simulations/games, Chromebooks are the way to go. And I can see LiveCode as the software for those single purpose custom built systems.

Kee Nethery

> On Nov 26, 2020, at 9:19 AM, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> Android apps run in an emulator on Chromebooks. I forgot to mention that the emulator is only 32-bit so you have to build ARM 7 apps for Chromebook. I haven't needed to build an x86 app, my tests have all run okay on three different models.
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> HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com
>> On November 26, 2020 7:32:50 AM Richmond via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Is a Chromebook app an Android app?
>> 
>> Or, to put things another way . . .
>> 
>> I thought I'd be clever and design something for kids at my school to
>> use on their Android
>> phones and tablets . . .
>> 
>> Fantastic idea that foundered badly when I worked out that a lot of
>> ANdroid tablets ran on INTEL chips
>> so LiveCode builds for Android wouldn't run on them.
>> 
>> Sorry to be damp squish.
>> 
>>> On 26.11.20 7:52, prothero--- via use-livecode wrote:
>>> 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.
>>> 
>>> 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.
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> Bill
>>> 
>>> William A. Prothero
>>> Santa Barbara, CA. 93105
>>> http://earthlearningsolutions.org/
>>> 
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