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Chrome Apps Will be Discontinued on Windows, Mac, and Linux

posted by CoolHand on Thursday October 13 2016, @08:22PM   Printer-friendly
from the google-things-never-last dept.

Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

Chrome packaged and hosted apps will be discontinued on Windows, Mac, and Linux over the course of now and early 2018. For more information, refer to the August 2016 Chromium blog post. This transition does not apply to Chrome OS, where Chrome packaged and hosted apps will remain supported and maintained for the foreseeable future.

To transition away from a Chrome packaged or hosted app on Windows, Mac, and Linux, the following options are available.

Recommended migration options for packaged apps are listed in order from simplest to most complicated.

Building a web app on top of the web platform is the ideal way to reach users across platforms.

If there are web platform features you need that are only available in select browsers, you can use feature detection to gracefully degrade or include explanatory text when your app is run in a browser that doesn't support a particular API. If there are gaps in the web platform for your application, please let us know.

An experimental tool that can help migrate simple Chrome Apps to Progressive Web Apps is Caterpillar. This tool can insert JavaScript to substitute Chrome Apps APIs you might be using. It is currently limited to handling only certain types of apps. In particular, apps that contain processing in background pages will not be converted.

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  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 13 2016, @11:52PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 13 2016, @11:52PM (#414113)

    Google wants to be Microsoft and created their own Active-X/Silverlight, with the same result.

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  • (Score: 1) by Sarasani on Friday October 14 2016, @02:12AM

    by Sarasani (3283) on Friday October 14 2016, @02:12AM (#414139)

    It always blew my mind that Microsoft started development on a Flash competitor at a time (2007) when the web industry as a whole generally had lost its appetite for Flash itself. Most people could see what a nuisance Flash had become, and Microsoft thought it was a smart move to throw good money at creating something similar from scratch? Surely this was another one of Steve Ballmer's stinky brain farts...