In here you’ll find the green speech bubble icon for Hangouts. Step 1: To launch the app go to the bottom left hand corner of the screen and click on the dotted, square icon to open the app tray. Just follow these steps and you’ll be chatting with friends in no time. Hangouts uses your existing account as your ID and is very simple to use.

This video messaging service offers many of the same capabilities – including group chats, instant messaging – and if you use it on an Android phone you can also make voice calls to iPhones, iPads, Chromebooks, and of course Android devices that also have the app installed.Īs you have a Chromebook it stands to reason that you also have a Google account, otherwise you couldn’t have logged in to the device. The easiest, and we’d suggest best, alternative to using Skype on a Chromebook is Google’s own Hangouts app.

How to use Skype on a Chromebook: Using Google Hangouts as an alternative YouTube showing you how to achieve this, so search for ‘run android apps on chrome’ and you’ll be able to try it out. There are several instructional videos on Then if you can find the relevant APK for Skype you’ll need to package it so that it will run on Chrome OS. Installing any of these apps on your Chromebook will also include the runtime in order to work. So far there are only four officially supported apps – Vine, Evernote, Duolingo, and Sight words – but the eventual plan is for a lot more, which will hopefully include Skype. I had this issue last week but I was about to re-install my OS so I paid. Google has recently been experimenting with ways to run Android apps on Chromebooks, via a specially created runtime. So I uninstalled Skype, restarted my computer and tried to load Chrome again.

Skype on google chrome os