Chrome OS has four development levels which are Beta, Stable Canary and Developer. The official rollout is Stable, and it goes down from there because the rest of the versions have bugs. In Canary’s buggy development level, the upcoming features of Chrome OS are being tested.
During one of the tests, a video was uploaded on the internet showing how Canary Chrome OS version could run Android apps in a split screen feature. Now, since the concept was successful, the feature will be rolled out to Stable Chrome OS update, which is expected to b available soon for Chromebook users.
It will now become easy to run a voice search and the Play Store on one screen. The tests have been on native Android and Chrome OS apps. If you have a Chromebook, you will be able to also run both Chrome OS and Android apps on the split screen. The only disclaimer is that both apps need to be compatible with the split screen functionality because some Android apps don’t work on split screen. Even though that is the case, we have not yet seen the error that is provided when such apps are tested on the split screen feature. Some can relate to the way Android phones work with the split screen feature, but now, take this feature over to Chromebooks; it increases the productivity of apps that work well together.
We expect to most probably see the split screen feature over in the summer which is expected to be in the Chrome OS version 66. Since Chromebooks are going to have split screen capabilities, the difference between a Chrome device and an Android device is becoming hard to state. We are going to see Chromebooks featuring a tablet mode feature with a fully detachable screen or a 360-degree hinge; this will continue to make the differences on both platforms even more difficult.
