In June, Google announced plans to bring Android apps to its Chromebook laptops, and now it's actually happening.
The Web giant on Thursday launched the first set of Android apps for the Chrome OS, including Duolingo, Evernote, the children's reading app Sight Words, and Twitter's Vine.
"Chromebooks were designed to keep up with you on the go — they're thin and light, have long battery lives, resume instantly, and are easy to use," Googlers Ken Mixter and Josh Woodward wrote in a blog post Thursday. "Today, we're making Chromebooks even more mobile."
For the uninitiated, Duolingo is a free language app, which can help you learn Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Italian, and English. The Evernote Chromebook app promises to help keep your digital life a little more organized, letting you write, collect, and find notes with a full-sized keyboard (check out some tips in the slideshow above).
Sight Words is an educational game designed to help children recognize common words, improve their reading skills, and fluency. And the Vine app will let you create short, looping videos from your laptop.
Google said it will be working with a group of Android developers over the coming months to bring more apps to Chromebook, though it did not specify which apps would be next. In the meantime, the Web giant has set up a form where you can request specific apps you'd like to see on the OS.
"We won't be able to support every Android app from day one, but your feedback will help us focus on the Android apps that you'd use most on Chrome OS," Google said.
For more, check out PCMag's roundup of The Best Chromebooks.