You’ll now need to enable apps from “Unknown Sources” on the Android settings screen on your Chromebook. Perhaps Google will lift this limit in the future and allow sideloading APKs without disabling the OS verification feature. Unfortunately, there doesn’t seem to be any getting around this limitation. RELATED: How to Get Access to Experimental Features in Chrome (and on Chromebooks)ĭeveloper mode also means you’ll see a scary warning screen every time you boot, and you’ll have to press Ctrl+D to skip it. However, practically everything on Chrome OS is synced online anyway, so that shouldn’t take too long. Note that this will wipe your Chromebook’s storage, so you’ll have to set it up from scratch afterwards.
Follow our guide to putting your Chromebook into developer mode to disable OS verification. This is the same switch you need to flip if you wanted to install a more traditional Linux desktop–like Ubuntu–alongside Chrome OS. To access this option, you’ll need to put your Chromebook into developer mode (which is different than being on Chrome’s dev channel–you need to do both to sideload Android APKs).
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