Chrome Apps are dead, as Google shuts down the Chrome Web Store section
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Re: Chrome Apps are dead, as Google shuts down the Chrome Web Store section
#2I'm really confused about what this means for Chrome Apps on ChromeOS. We use Electron for Windows/Mac/Linux but as far as I know Chrome Apps are still the only game in town for ChromeOS. Is there another way to release apps for Chrome OS?
Re: Chrome Apps are dead, as Google shuts down the Chrome Web Store section
#3I'm really confused about what this means for Chrome Apps on ChromeOS. We use Electron for Windows/Mac/Linux but as far as I know Chrome Apps are still the only game in town for ChromeOS. Is there another way to release apps for Chrome OS?
"All types of Chrome apps will remain supported and maintained on Chrome OS for the foreseeable future. Additional enhancements to the Chrome apps platform will apply only to Chrome OS devices, including kiosks. Developers can continue to build Chrome apps (or Android apps) for Chrome OS."
https://blog.chromium.org/2016/08/from-chrome-apps-to-web.ht...
Re: Chrome Apps are dead, as Google shuts down the Chrome Web Store section
#4As an order-of-magnitude estimate, let's assume that 1 billion users use Chrome. TFA states: "approximately 1 percent of users on Windows, Mac and Linux actively use Chrome packaged apps."
That's 10 million active users who can't install apps that they use on their next machine?
Re: Chrome Apps are dead, as Google shuts down the Chrome Web Store section
#5I'm really confused about what this means for Chrome Apps on ChromeOS. We use Electron for Windows/Mac/Linux but as far as I know Chrome Apps are still the only game in town for ChromeOS. Is there another way to release apps for Chrome OS?
Android apps are available on ChromeOS
Re: Chrome Apps are dead, as Google shuts down the Chrome Web Store section
#6Good riddance. Hopefully they'll kill off the strange permission variations between extensions and apps too, that's been nothing but confusing and a plague on building anything useful.
Re: Chrome Apps are dead, as Google shuts down the Chrome Web Store section
#7NW.js will continue to support running Chrome Apps: https://nwjs.io/blog/chrome-apps-support/
Re: Chrome Apps are dead, as Google shuts down the Chrome Web Store section
#8I'm really confused about what this means for Chrome Apps on ChromeOS. We use Electron for Windows/Mac/Linux but as far as I know Chrome Apps are still the only game in town for ChromeOS. Is there another way to release apps for Chrome OS?
This essentially means that Chrome Apps are dead. No one will spend money developing new concepts for such a small platform unless they are paid to do so.
Re: Chrome Apps are dead, as Google shuts down the Chrome Web Store section
#9It seems like I'm the only one who is happy about this. What's the point of restricting apps built using open web standards to one proprietary browser and app store? Agreed that there was a gap in offline support which Chrome filled at the time, but now it's time to move on and use newer and more widely supported APIs.
Re: Chrome Apps are dead, as Google shuts down the Chrome Web Store section
#10If "Google says Progressive Web Apps are the future of app-like webpages."
Then why do the chrome website auditing tools promote progressive web apps as the first analytic for the performance of a page. Surely only a small subset of webpages are going to be 'app-like'.