One of Google's latest, greatest feats on their Chromebook platform has been bringing Android apps and features to the slim laptops. That's helped a ton to bring more applications and programs to Chrome OS without developers having to do much extra work, if any, and it's breathing new life into Android on a larger screen.
But right now that Android emulation layer is running on Android Pie, and it never actually got an update to Android Oreo, strangely enough.
Despite that, some new evidence suggests that when Android Q drops, you'll also see Chrome OS take that upgrade step with it, which means newer apps will be able to run on Chromebooks, taking advantage of newer SDKs and features that aren't back ported to older versions of Android Pie.
The only catch is that it seems as if Google has just recently started working on this, according to the commits in Chromium's source code, so this most likely won't be ready in time for Google I/O in a couple weeks. But it does give Google something to advertise as we get closer to the holidays, especially if they can get a couple higher-profile apps on board to show it off.
But hey, even without this version bump, we still might see some new Chrome OS features announced at Google's annual keynote. It's worth keeping an eye out for it.
source: 9to5Google
