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How to detect programmatically if "Android App" is running in chrome book or in Android phone

Since Google has announced that chromebook also support "Android Application" so I also wanted to support my app on chromebook although it is running fine with few exception which I need to fix. I want to write code in such a way that that is will…
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What will be the side-loading and debugging mechanism for Android apps on ChromeOS?

I've gone through everything on http://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/android-apps and also watched the IO video and there doesn't seem to be any mention of what the side-loading (and debugging) mechanism available for developing/testing Android apps…
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How Do I Enable ADB Debugging on Chrome OS?

According to both Google and Google, if I enable Linux on Chrome OS, then in Settings' "Linux (Beta)" section, I should see a "Develop Android apps" option. On an HP Chromebox G2 (Kench), I see this option and eventually got it activated. On a…
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Update Chrome OS emulator for Android Studio

I am developing an application for Andropid with a min sdk of 30. I have no problems testing it on phone or tablet emulators, but I have not been able to do it for Chromebooks. I have installed a Chrome OS Device emulator in Android Studio, but it…
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Installing multiple apps in Arc Welder in the same context

Installing Androids apps on Chrome OS with Arc Welder is pretty straight forward and most apps works fine. However, apps are installed in their own isolated environment and are thus not able to interact with each other. For example, I have installed…
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How can you programmatically lock a Chromebook?

I have a Chrome OS device, and I want to programmatically lock the screen when a timer has expired (when a child has used up their available screen time). The Chromebook supports Android apps, but I can't find much information about how to do this…
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Android intent to open link in Chrome on ChromeOS

Is it possible to programmatically open a web url in the main Chrome browser (not the Android "sandboxed" one) on a ChromeOS device, from an Android app (sending an intent or whatsoever)?
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How to find ChromeOS version on which android app running?

Need to find out the ChromeOS version on which the android apps is running. Build.VERSION.RELEASE gives you the Android container version but the not the underlying ChromeOS version. Is there a way to find it out programmatically? Thanks
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How to find if android app is started by AndroidOS or ChromeOS's android container?

ChromeOS has started supporting Android apps. https://developer.android.com/topic/arc/optimizing Android apps when running within ChromeOS requires a bunch of optimizations and these optimizations apply only to the app when running in chrome…
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Can an Android application hide Window controls in ChromeOS

Is possible for an Android application to hide or disable window controls (for itself) such as orientation, minimize, close when running on ChromeOS?
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Install unknown source apk on ChromeOs

I updated my Chromebook Asus Flip this morning to get the Play Store. My Chromebook has the M53dev channel version installed. It is working well. I can install and run Android apps downloaded from the Play Store. I would like to test my app but in…
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How can Android deep links be made to work from the Chrome OS browser?

On a web page, I have a URL that is a deep link to my Android app. It is of the form myapp://myrequest?url=someurl This is captured via an intent filter in the app manifest. I use getIntent().getData.getQueryParameter("url") in the onCreate() of my…
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Android - ChromeOS - BottomSheetDialogFragment is not working on ChromeOS full screen

I'm extending BottomSheetDialogFragmentfor show a bottom menu on the application. This is the layout used for the view.
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Android app which interacts with BLE devices not working on Chromebook

I have an Android app which interacts with custom BLE devices. This app works as expected on devices which have android version 4.4 to 6.0. Now I want to make this available on Chromebooks through the Google Playstore on Chromebooks(App Runtime for…
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Android on Chromebook - BLE scan not working

I am trying to do BLE Scan on ChromeOS from my Android App. After turning on the Location Permissions I am able to get scan results. But the Manufacturer Data is not present in the results. The Manufacturer id I have set in firmware is 0x0. I am…
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