Some Chromebooks getting Android Pie in Chrome OS Canary channel
Google’s Chrome OS has supported Android apps via the Android Runtime for Chrome (ARC++) for a few years now, but the last major update to ARC++ was to bring it up to the Android 7.1 Nougat platform level. We’ve known for a while that Google planned to skip Android Oreo-based ARC++ for Chrome OS, but we didn’t know when Google would push the next major update to the Android subsystem for Chromebooks. Given that the Google Pixel Slate is launching soon with Android Pie on board, it was only a matter of time until other Chromebooks got the update. Now, it seems that Google has pushed the Android Pie ARC++ update to the Chrome OS Canary Channel, starting with the Google Pixelbook. The first noteworthy change of the update is the new settings app. It has been redesigned to match Android Pie’s Google Material Theme design on smartphones. Keep in mind that some things may change when this update hits the Dev, Beta, and finally Stable channels. The next notice
