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More tidbits on the upcoming Windows apps for Chromebooks surface

A few days ago, after Google announced its partnership with Parallels to bring Windows apps to Chrome OS, I did a little digging in the repositories to see if I could find any more details about it — oh, the benefits of open source!

Obviously, I know that this is targeted to enterprise users only at the moment, but I found that the feature might land with Chrome OS 85, is codenamed “Plugin VM,” and was running on a dev’s Pixelbook Go. Funnily enough, the devs also made all the bug reports I used private in less than 24 hours of publishing the post. At any rate, today, I discovered some more small details.

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Parallels for Chromebooks might arrive as soon as Chrome OS 85

Earlier this week, Google announced a joint partnership with Parallels, a company that specializes in OS virtualization, to bring full-featured Windows applications such as Microsoft Office to Chrome OS. The announcement, however, indicated that this feature will launch on Chrome Enterprise devices, and we don’t know if at all it will ship to consumers as well, but we certainly hope so.

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Huawei is requesting developers to publish their apps on its AppGallery app store

Amid the U.S. trade restrictions placed on Huawei, the Chinese tech giant must find an alternative to the Google Play Store. Huawei’s Android skin, EMUI, does come with their pre-installed AppGallery app store. However, if they really do plan on going for that alleged Android replacement, they’re going to need developers to port their apps to AppGallery.

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Google releases Android Q Beta 2 with bubbles, Scoped Storage, and more

The first beta of Android Q was released less than a month ago, and today, Google just released Beta 2. This also comes before Google I/O which is likely when the next beta will be announced. The beta is still only available on Pixel phones, Android Studio’s emulator, and as a generic system image (GSI).

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