Google just leaked a first look at Android for PC in action

We’ve been waiting months for our first look astatine Android moving connected a PC successful Google’s upcoming ChromeOS / Android hybrid platform, codenamed Aluminium OS. Now we’ve seen it successful action, and person Google to convey for the leak.

9to5Google spotted a bug study related to Chrome Incognito tabs published to the Google Issue Tracker yesterday, including 2 surface recordings taken from a instrumentality moving Aluminium OS. Google has now restricted entree to the report, but 9to5Google managed to propulsion the videos first. The tract besides reports that the bug locator mentioned an ALOS package type — already confirmed to beryllium the initialism for Aluminium OS — and that the recordings came from an HP Elite Dragonfly 13.5 Chromebook.

The videos themselves — shared to YouTube by Android Authority — adhd further confirmation that this is Aluminium OS, listing the OS arsenic Android 16, pinch a build number that matches the ALOS 1 mentioned successful the bug report. It surely looks for illustration this is an existing Chromebook being utilized to trial the upcoming ALOS experience, which Android caput Sameer Samat antecedently said we should expect to spot much from this year.

As for what we spot of Aluminium, it’s very overmuch the mashup you’d expect. The taskbar resembles ChromeOS’s, but moves the commencement fastener into the center, à la Android. There’s a position barroom astatine the top, much for illustration Android than ChromeOS, pinch acquainted Android icons for battery, Wi-Fi connection, and truthful on. The video gives america a little look astatine the Play Store, on pinch immoderate split-screen multitasking, but it’s hardly a heavy dive of the caller OS. We mightiness request to hold for Google to merchandise a video connected intent for that.