Google’s mobile OS, Android hasn’t offered a true desktop experience when connected to a monitor despite Android is out for a long time. Both Microsoft’s Continuum for Lumia and Samsung’s DeX aimed to offer a desktop-like experience when connecting phones to external monitors. While they achieved some success, neither solution became widely adopted. However Google never supported this kind of thing natively. Now this might change, though, as Google seems like working on a solution.
Instead of adapting the Android for desktops, Google took a different approach. They created ChromeOS, a lightweight operating system specifically designed for giving users the desktop experience. ChromeOS powers some laptops today, especially in laptops given in schools. While it hasn’t reached Windows’ dominance, ChromeOS just offers a user-friendly alternative.
Google’s ChromeOS works on Android blazing fast
Recent reports by Android Authority suggest Google might be exploring ways to bring ChromeOS to the Android devices. Additionally, Google will allow OEMs to run ChromiumOS on their devices, which is the open-source version of ChromeOS. There is no official evidence yet showing that Google is currently trying to merge both platforms. However, we know that Google was working on a hybrid architecture called “Andromeda,” which was a combination of ChromeOS and Android-based systems, although it was later canceled.
Android Authority team has achieved running ChromiumOS on a virtual machine within Android, codenamed “ferrochrome.” This made possible with Google’s VL Launcher app and Android’s Virtualization Framework (AVF), hinting at the potential for running ChromeOS on Android devices in the future.
In the video shared by Android Authority, ChromiumOS runs very smoothly on the Pixel 7 Pro. While we can’t claim that Google has already turned Android devices into desktop machines, the ability to run ChromiumOS on Android is quite exciting. We may see some interesting steps from Google in the future.
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