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Chromebooks to allow sideloading of Android apps without Developer Mode (enterprise-only feature at launch?)

by Brad Linder01/13/2018 5 Comments

You’ve been able to run Android apps on some Chromebooks since mid-2016 by enabling access to the Google Play Store and then downloading and installing apps from the store. You can also sideload Android APK files, but you need to enable developer mode to do that… which will wipe your data and loosen some of the […]

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PSA: Amazon releases Fire OS 5.6 update, fixes install from unknown sources bug

by Brad Linder12/04/201712/05/2017 14 Comments

Amazon recently rolled out a new version of Fire OS for its tablets and while Fire OS 5.6 brings a few new features including support for monitoring smart home cameras with Alexa, app icons in the notification tray and some tweaks to the settings menu, it also partially broke one feature: installation of apps from […]

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How to sideload Android apps on a Chromebook

by Brad Linder07/01/201601/23/2018 12 Comments

Now that Chromebooks can run Android apps downloaded from the Google Play Store, you might be wondering whether they can run apps not downloaded from the Play Store. It turns out the answer is yes. For now you have to jump through a few extra hoops to make it happen, but here’s how I managed to […]