Now Android-applications can be run in OS X, Windows, Linux, and Chrome OS

Google has released a public beta version App Runtime Chrome (ARC). It is a tool that allows developers to run their Android-application on any desktop using the Chrome browser.

ARC allows you to run Android-application on Chrome OS, and has long been available only to a limited number of developers. Now the company has released ARC WelderWhich will allow any user to run Android-application on Windows, Mac, Linux and Chrome OS. Just two clicks he decides to mobile app conversion problem in the desktop version. For this task, he will need a APK-file for Android application.

guys from TheNextWeb even had time to test the new tool and found that Android-version of Twitter works great on Windows. However, there is one feature. ARC runs on Android 4.4, not Android 5.0 Lollipop.

In addition to the ARC Welder, ARC includes some Google Play services, which are needed to run programs using OAuth2, Google Cloud Messaging, Google+. Since the ARC is not yet included all Google Play services, some applications, such as in-game purchases until fall. But, most likely, the company will try to solve these problems in the near future.

This is a great event in the development of mobile, because now developers can create Android-purpose software that is suitable for both mobile devices and desktops.