This may seem like a silly question, but I was in Best Buy today looking around at cheap laptops and I noticed a bunch of Chromebooks on sale. I never really looked closely at them before, but these all have Intel CPUs in them. So I'm wondering if we can build apps that run within Chrombooks with Delphi?

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This may seem like a silly question, but I was in Best Buy today looking around at cheap laptops and I noticed a bunch of Chromebooks on sale. I never really looked closely at them before, but these all have Intel CPUs in them. So I'm wondering if we can build apps that run within Chrombooks with Delphi?

I know they run something called ChromeOS, but I know nothing about it other than it's a thin Linux distro.

I also believe they're designed mainly so everything runs inside the browser, so maybe not so much value in building native apps for them. But I'm curious anyway.

EDIT: it looks like some Chrombooks are actually loaded up with Windows now. Odd...

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  1. Eli MDecember 8, 2017 at 7:03 AM

    community.embarcadero.com - Targeting Chrome OS with Delphi via Android and Linux

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  2. Scott PinkhamDecember 8, 2017 at 8:02 AM

    I confirm that the Android apps I've made using Delphi run on a Chromebook as well, but of course it has to be a Chromebook that supports the Play Store.

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  3. Christian ConradDecember 8, 2017 at 5:48 PM

    You would of course void the warranty and so on, but if you're willing to take that chance I'm fairly certain you could put some other Linux distribution onto most Chromebooks.

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