[guardian-dev] our apps on Chromebook

Nathan of Guardian nathan at guardianproject.info
Mon Oct 31 05:28:09 EDT 2016


On Mon, Oct 31, 2016, at 02:13 AM, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>
> So I just got a Asus Chromebook Flip, which is an ARM-based Chromebook
> that is one of the first devices to get Google Play on it.  I just
> installed Orfox, Orbot, Ripple, and Checkey all work.  Orfox works
> pretty well, but there is some clunkiness in the interaction which I
> chalk up to the newness of the Android app support.

That is great to hear. Anyway to do a demo video or screen capture of
all of those running?
 
> The crappy thing is that there is no "Unknown Sources" checkbox, so you
> can't use F-Droid without switching the device into "developer mode".

Right, I guess that is part of the Chrome OS bargain. What happens when
you switch to developer mode? Does F-Droid somehow get root/system
privs?

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