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Developing for ChromeOS with Kotlin (2025 Edition)

3 min readMay 8, 2025

Why ChromeOS Matters?🌟

ChromeOS is Google’s lightweight, Linux‑based operating system shipping on Chromebooks, Chromeboxes and emerging form‑factors like detachable tablets. Since every Chromebook can run Android apps through ARC (Android Runtime for Chrome), a single Kotlin codebase can now reach laptops, tablets, foldables and desktop‑style windowed devices — over 100 million active users as of 2025.

The development environment | ChromeOS | Android Developers

Being able to run Android apps on a Chromebook is great. It gives users access to the vast Android ecosystem offerings…

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Start building apps for ChromeOS | Android Developers

ChromeOS devices, such as Chromebooks, support the Google Play Store and Android apps. This article assumes you have an…

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Three Major App Paths 💻

Many teams ship a hybrid: one Kotlin codebase for Android & ChromeOS, plus a thin PWA wrapper for quick updates.