
Scroll down until you see the Google Play Store (beta) section. If the option is greyed out, then you’ll need to bake a batch of cookies to take to the domain administrator and ask if they can enable the feature. You can check your Chromebook by going to Settings. You need to also check with your Google Suite for Education domain administrator to make sure that the option to access the Google Play Store on your Chromebook is enabled in the dashboard. So, you’ve checked the list to identify a Chromebook that runs Android and you are ready to purchase it and use it in your classroom. Enabling Google Play Store on Your Chromebook Even if you don’t see your Chromebook on the list, it will still receive updates until its Google-determined end-of-life, which should be about five years after it debuted. According to the Chromium Projects, starting this year, all Chromebooks that become available are supposed to work with Android. Be sure to look on the Chromium Projects site to see a list of those that are capable of running the apps. You should know, too, that just because you go buy a new Chromebook at Walmart, Best Buy, or Amazon, that doesn’t mean that it will run Android apps. But if you happen to have a newer device, then it may just be possible. If your Chromebook is like mine, it is several years old and will most likely not know what it is like to run Android apps. Last May, Google announced that you would soon be able to run Android apps on your Chromebook.
