Google Play is coming to Chrome OS in September

Google is finally bringing the Google Play store, including its more than 1.5 million Android apps, to Chrome OS. Google Play will first arrive with Chrome OS version 53 on the dev channel in early June, starting with three Chromebooks: the Asus Chromebook Flip, the Acer Chromebook R11, and of course Google’s Pixel 2. Over the coming months, the feature will come to more devices on the beta channel and eventually the stable channel.

Kan Liu, product management director of Chrome OS, told me that the Google Play store should start hitting the stable channel in September. By the end of this year, he promised “most Chrome OS devices” (full list) would support Google Play. That includes both ARM and x86 architectures. Google has also been working with its Chromebook partners to launch new devices that will ship with Google Play out of the box.