We\u2019ve been waiting months for our first look at Android running on a PC in Google\u2019s upcoming ChromeOS \/ Android hybrid platform, codenamed Aluminium OS. Now we\u2019ve seen it in action, and have Google to thank for the leak.<\/p>\n
9to5Google<\/a> spotted a bug report related to Chrome Incognito tabs published to the Google Issue Tracker yesterday, including two screen recordings taken from a device running Aluminium OS. Google has now restricted access to the report<\/a>, but 9to5Google managed to pull the videos first. The site also reports that the bug tracker mentioned an ALOS software version \u2014 already confirmed to be the initialism for Aluminium OS<\/a> \u2014 and that the recordings came from an HP Elite Dragonfly 13.5 Chromebook.<\/p>\n The videos themselves \u2014 shared to YouTube by Android Authority \u2014 add further confirmation that this is Aluminium OS, listing the OS as Android 16, with a build number that matches the ALOS one mentioned in the bug report. It certainly looks like this is an existing Chromebook being used to test the upcoming ALOS experience, which Android head Sameer Samat previously said we should expect to see more from this year<\/a>.<\/p>\n As for what we see of Aluminium, it\u2019s very much the mashup you\u2019d expect. The taskbar resembles ChromeOS\u2019s, but moves the start button into the center, \u00e0 la Android. There\u2019s a status bar at the top, more like Android than ChromeOS, with familiar Android icons for battery, Wi-Fi connection, and so on. The video gives us a brief look at the Play Store, along with some split-screen multitasking, but it\u2019s hardly a deep dive of the new OS. We might need to wait for Google to release a video on purpose for that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We\u2019ve been waiting months for our first look at Android running on a PC in Google\u2019s upcoming ChromeOS…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":255666,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[771,36636,36637,367,342,111,43,139,69,370,145],"class_list":{"0":"post-255665","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mobile","8":"tag-android","9":"tag-chrome","10":"tag-chromebook","11":"tag-google","12":"tag-mobile","13":"tag-new-zealand","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-newzealand","16":"tag-nz","17":"tag-tech","18":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}