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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: 2) by darkfeline on Friday October 14 2016, @04:54AM

    by darkfeline (1030) on Friday October 14 2016, @04:54AM (#414166) Homepage

    >And I have never even heard of Chrome Apps.

    And that is exactly why Google is dropping them.

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  • (Score: 2) by opinionated_science on Friday October 14 2016, @08:47AM

    by opinionated_science (4031) on Friday October 14 2016, @08:47AM (#414203)

    I have - by "accident" I install angry birds (!) for my massive desktop. That was a shock....!

    Can anyone explain what is changing? Are they basically saying the default chrome sandbox is now sufficient to just run webapps?