In 10 steps, you can run almost all Android applications on your Google Chrome browser!!!

Nobody has imagined that lovely Android applications can run on a PC or Mac, but on June 2014 Google announced that they are going to update the Chrome OS so that it can run APK files natively. On Sept. 2014, the first Android apps were available for Chrome OS.

Here is how you can try this yourself:

1. You must have your chrome browser updated to the latest version 35+.
2. Download ARChon Custom Runtime 32 or 64 from here, and extract to your hard disk.
3. Open chrome://extensions/ and check on Developer mode in the upper right corner.
4. Now click Load unpacked extension button and browse for ARChon folder then press OK, you should see a new extension is added like this "ARChon Custom Runtime 1.1 - x86_64 38.4410.120.25".
5. Download Chrome APK packager from here, it is not available on play store because Google removed it earlier.
6. Install Chrome APK packager on your phone, and run it.
7. Follow the following instructions to export an Android application as a Chrome extension (zipped archive).
   
   Choose how would you like to share the generated zip archive in order to transfer to your PC.
8. Extract the generated zip archive on your hard disk, as done in step 2.
9. Add the extracted extension to Chrome, as done in step 4.
10. The Android application should appear now in your Chrome apps and run smoothly, enjoy!!

For an updated list of working applications, please refer to this document.

References:

1. chrome-apk-packager
2. Archon
3. All tested APKs
4. Useful article 1
5. Useful article 2
6. Useful article 3