The Chromebook compatible with Android apps They are in luck, as they are going to receive a big upgrade soon. it is about the ability for applications to use USB storage.
Betting on Chromebooks: improving their functions little by little
The Chromebook are today the second great bet of Google in the hardware environment beyond your mobiles Pixel. These computers that run on Chrome OS They are still not full-fledged computers for many skeptics, but the truth is that they are really useful tools that do not stop improving.
For example, over the last few months we have seen how improved Android apps on Chromebook with parallel processes, as well as the implementation of Google Assistant on Chrome OS. In the future will have dark mode, and from Android they have adopted the menu style y of notifications. In security they are not far behind, including a special patch that, yes, deleted all content.
However, all these movements only indicate one thing: Google continues to bet heavily on Chromebooks. And now they are moving forward again by offering an option that continues to place these devices as great productivity tools: Android applications will be able to access USB storage.
Chromebook Android apps will be able to access USB storage
A common mess: a Chromebook with VLC Player installed to play videos or music. Currently, if that Android app tried access files from a connected USB to the device, I couldn't. Obviously this is an obstacle, since it would have to pass the file to the Chromebook itself and play it from there. This is just an example, but in many cases we will need files that we have on a USB with some speed, so we do not want to "waste time" transferring them to internal storage.
In no time this will stop happening: Android apps installed on a Chromebook can easily access USB storage. A new flag called "USB Host Integration" dedicated to this very thing. His description says: "Allow Android applications to use the USB Host function on Chrome OS devices".
This function should be moving through the different channels of Chrome OS to reach the stable version, but for now its presence in Canary and its obvious description indicates that, in the short term, Chromebooks will be even better.