Google\u2019s head of Android has said that the company plans to combine its mobile operating system with ChromeOS, the software that currently runs across Google\u2019s Chromebook laptops.<\/p>\n
Sameer Samat, president of Google\u2019s Android ecosystem, told TechRadar<\/a> that \u201cwe\u2019re going to be combining Chrome OS and Android into a single platform.\u201d Samat, who\u2019s responsible for Android\u2019s implementation across mobile, wearables, XR, TV, and auto, added that he\u2019s \u201cinterested in how people are using their laptops these days,\u201d suggesting he may be adding a new string to his bow.<\/p>\n The comment is the closest thing yet to official confirmation of a change that\u2019s been rumored for months. In November 2024 Android Authority reported<\/a> that Google is \u201cmigrating ChromeOS over to Android,\u201d with the aim of competing with the iPad. That process may have already begun, with Google itself announcing last June<\/a> that ChromeOS will now be \u201cdeveloped on large portions of the Android stack.\u201d Chromebooks can already run many Android apps<\/a>.<\/p>\n Meanwhile Android is getting a little closer to ChromeOS this year with new features including a desktop mode<\/a>, resizable windows, and improved support for external displays. <\/p>\n Google bringing its two operating systems under one roof makes a lot of sense on paper, allowing it to speed up feature development and work on improving functionality on tablets, where both its current OSes lag behind Apple\u2019s iPadOS. Then again, that\u2019s been true for a while \u2014 a merger of the two platforms was reported ten years ago in 2015<\/a>, and The Verge wrote that it \u201cmakes perfect sense to bring them together\u201d two years before that<\/a>. This is a change that\u2019s been a long time coming, but that means it might be a long time still.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Google\u2019s head of Android has said that the company plans to combine its mobile operating system with ChromeOS,…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":64638,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[2718,9484,2722,611,50,242,158,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-64637","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mobile","8":"tag-android","9":"tag-chromebook","10":"tag-google","11":"tag-mobile","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-tech","14":"tag-technology","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114851158855586087","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}