The touchscreen works very nicely for these apps, too. As a Chrome OS engineer noted on Reddit, scrolling just moves a “virtual finger” on your screen, which means you can swipe on your touchpad with two fingers to swipe around in apps. Right-clicking performs a long-press, so it brings up contextual actions.

Mouse and keyboard support works pretty well. Yes, this feature needs some more polish, but the core is unbelievably solid. But this is the first release, and these are bugs that can be fixed. Notifications can be a little unreliable, and apps can crash or freeze when you change your device’s orientation. Currently, you can only run apps in full-screen mode or in a window of a fixed size-it would be nice to resize them.

Some apps don’t yet work, or have bugs-but every app I’ve tried works perfectly.

This new Android support isn’t without its issues. That’s because Google is actually running a full, actual Android system in a container alongside Chrome OS. Where ARC limited you to a few hand-picked apps that had to be modified and installed from the Chrome Web Store, Google’s new Android support gives you unfettered access to the Google Play Store and lets you go crazy. If you ever played with Google’s previous solution for running Android apps on a Chromebook-known as the Android Runtime for Chrome, or ARC-you’ll be shocked at how well it works.

Hearthstone on a google chrome book