[jessaustin]

Google have indicated a future Android-Chrome merger. Although the public announcements were to the effect of Android simply replacing Chrome, there has been speculation about other outcomes. Perhaps this suit will encourage movement in the other direction, from Android to Chrome.

[vetinari]

They did a proof-of-concept Dart runtime (Sky/Flutter).

The bad news was, that everything was reimplemented in Dart, including the widgets, so they had that not-quite-native feel.