Internet giant Google announced it has joined forces with four high-profile app developers to work on Chromebooks that run on Google's Chrome OS.

The apps, which began to be available Thursday, include video recorder Vine, productivity program Evernote, language tutor Duolingo and children's literacy system, Sight Words.

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Sundar Pichai, Google's senior vice president in charge of Chrome, Android and apps, said in June at the Google I/O that the Menlo Park-based company would migrate some apps to Chromebook.

He noted that Google wants to eliminate the barrier between its operating system on mobile devices and its laptop computers.

"Wouldn't it be nice to get some of your favorite applications on your Chromebook? We want this to be intuitive for users. For developers, we want this to work with as little modification as possible," he said.

Pichai added that Chromebooks could allow Android apps to use "some of the underlying device API's, like the camera API," which lets core functions such as Vine's capability to shoot videos be transferred to the bigger computer.

More of Google's partnerships with other companies will focus on including "your favorite apps" to lessen issues and create a "more seamless experience" when switching from Android to Chrome and back. This according to product manager Josh Woodward and Google software engineer Ken Mixter in a blog post the same day the apps were released.

Although it made an appearance at the Google I/O demo alongside Vine and Evernote, Flipboard wasn't part of the first batch of apps released.

Over the past year, Google has been busy developing systems that let Web apps designed originally to run in Chrome also work on Android and vice versa.

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