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Android apps are the best. The only thing cooler than having them run on your phone is if you could somehow bring them to your desktop. Well, you can. Using Chrome and Google’s App Runtime for Chrome (ARC for short), developers were given the ability to port their Android apps by having them run as a Chrome app. Initially there were only 4 apps available (Duolingo, Evernote, Sight Words, and Vine), and only for Chrome OS users, although a “hack” was later discovered.
But now, Google’s new Chrome app — ARC Welder — gives developers and ordinary folk the ability to test and just play around with Android apps straight from the Chrome web browser. Set up is easy, just download the ARC Welder Chrome app and once launched, select the zip file or APK of your application you want to run. From there, you can decide if you’d like the app to run in portrait or landscape mode, tablet or phone mode, and a few other parameters.
Once you launch the app, you’ll have a mostly functional Android app running on your desktop with little fuss. Not every app plays nice with ARC, so your mileage may vary. We were able to test our own Phandroid app amongst a few others. If you guys have luck with anything else, feel free to drop a comment below. For more detailed instructions, check out the official “Getting Started with ARC” page here.
Download from Chrome Web Store: ARC Welder
Pretty awesome looking, I’d love to try it out but can’t think of an Android app I’d want to run off on my PC. Any ideas?
Also, “Google’s new Chrome app — ARC Welder” but on the Chrome app says the developer is “arc-eng”. Just pointing it out
“arc-eng” is just the short for “arc module – engineering build”. It’s a Google thing.
Ok thanks, wasn’t sure
This is awesome. But all the apps I tried to use open but has no connection to the internet. Any idea how to fix this? The apps I tested: SeriesGuide, Reddit News, Sync is Reddit.
It works…there’s this little music app that I love and I’ve been trying for ages to get it to run on Windows so I could use it at work without using my phone. Yay!
YES! NO MORE SYNCING PHONE TO CPU .ALL MY OFFICIAL AND NONOFFICIAL ENTERTAINMENT APPS WORK. IT EVEN SHOWS ALL LOGOS IN THE CHROME APPS. THIS IS BIG! IM A CHORD CUTTER, A CHROMEBOOK IS LOOKING REALLY GOOD NOW AND MY PHONE WILL HAVE MORE BATTERY FOR ACTUAL PHONECALLS BECAUSE THE CHROMEBOOK CAN RUN THOSE APPS INSTEAD.
WHY ARE WE SHOUTING?
It’s breaking news ✋
because i was exited , you not loud when excited!
AHHHHH
You can only install one app at a time with this solution btw.
I am getting this sad guy :(
Same. Works on my laptop but not my desktop. Same versions of Chrome. Bummer.
any idea on how to get KiK to work? I get error when trying to log in.