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dragonwriter on Sept 11, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: First set of Android apps for ChromeOS

> I would be curious to know how it works exactly. Did Google write a port of Dalvik/ART that runs on ChromeOS ?

From what I can gather from the articles, they run in the "App Runtime for Chrome (beta)", which is an Android VM for Native Client.

gagege on Sept 11, 2014 [–]

A VM in a VM.

Mikeb85 on Sept 11, 2014 | [–]

Native client is more like Wine than a VM. Translates calls from the environment to equivalents in the host OS.

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