I had been happily playing the game on my lenovo chromebook , from 1.7 until 1.8. Everything worked fine, max render distance was 64 chunks, no lag, server compatibility was fine.
Until the app updated to 1.9 and this device was left in the dust. Helen said that nothing had been changed for it to not be supported anymore, but here we are again, back at square one.
Is there a reason for this? Is this a bug or a not fun feature? Do we just need to wait? It doesn't even show up in the playstore unless if I go from the web version to the app version. Says to contact developers so here I am.
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According to Lenovo Customer support, the game was never designed to run on Chromebooks on default Chromebook circumstances as based on this article from the Mojang support page, however, the article is about Java Edition, and I don't think Lenovo Customer support realized that I mentioned that it ran Bedrock edition on your 500e before 1.9
was able to install on my hp chromebook up until 1.10 now it shows as not compatible in the app store
I have played Minecraft PE for years I have had it on my phone and pixelbook (chrome os via playstore) since it was available. Recently I started experiencing issues connecting to my personal server so I uninstalled the app thinking that would help and then I come to find out that you are blocking the installation on any chromebook now. Reading online you must have done this a while ago because there are a lot of other frustrated people over this issue. I know this is not a hardware issue as I more than exceed the minimum spec's. I have also succesfully installed and ran the Java version via linux on chrome os and it runs fine, unfortunately I want to play with others who are required to play on bedrock which is also the version my server is now based on. Frustrated, I decided to go into dev mode and extracted the apk from my phone and installed it back on my pixelbook and the touch interface works perfectly, but now I experienced some issues with the keyboard and my mouse not working properly, this was never an issue on the version I was playing 3 days ago. Can someone please give me some answers on why this no longer works and what you are doing to resolve this issue. I have spent a lot of money and invested a ton of personal time building worlds on this device and now I can no longer access them properly. And please dont point me to the ignorant disclaimer on your webpage "These computers are not optimized for gaming...." this is totally false especially since there are i7 chromebooks like mine available on the market now. My pixelbook has more processing power than most android phones and more than exceeds your posted minimum specs. Please stop blacklisting them from the playstore or at least find some way to support them. I would not be opposed to bedrock on linux either 🙂 Sorry for the ranting but as you can tell I am a big fan of the game and I think I speak for many others who really want to see this working well on the Chrome OS platform. Better Together Right!
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What Chromebook model do you have? Most older Lenovo Chromebooks can't play newer versions of Minecraft