Again in March, we reported that Google was growing App Mall for ChromeOS, an software market that can present you all of the Progressive Net Apps (PWAs) and Android purposes accessible for the working system in addition to mean you can obtain them in your Galaxy Chromebook, eliminating the necessity so that you can go to totally different locations to seek out every kind of app and enabling you to find them from a single place. Effectively, the corporate has lastly launched App Mall, as a preview (by way of Chrome Unboxed).
At the moment, App Mall is accessible on the Canary Channel of ChromeOS 126. To entry it, you’ll have to allow the chrome://flags/#cros-mall flag. When you try this, the App Mall’s icon will seem within the app launcher. Once you open the app market, it is going to current you with a set of apps. There are sections for Apps and Video games, and likewise an choice to seek for an app. When you click on on an app from the gathering, App Mall will present you all the small print about it, together with its description and screenshots.
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If an software is accessible solely as a PWA, App Mall will say “Set up from internet” beneath the title of the app and provide the ‘Get app’ choice beside the title. If an app is accessible solely as an Android app, the platform will say “Set up from Play Retailer” beneath the title of the app and provide the identical ‘Get app’ choice beside the title. If an app is accessible as a PWA in addition to an Android app, App Mall will say “2 choices accessible” beneath the title of the app and provide the ‘Select choice’ button beside the title.
If you choose the PWA, App Mall gives you the choice to the ‘Set up’ choice. When you click on on it, it is going to obtain the app in your Chromebook. If you choose the Android app, it is going to take you to the itemizing of the app on the Google Play Retailer, and you may obtain the app from there. Individuals who don’t have a Chromebook can even check out App Mall as it’s accessible as an internet site. In the intervening time, there’s no data on when Google will make App Mall accessible to Steady, Beta, or Dev channels however it ought to occur quickly.