I'm looking into porting my web app into electron but before I invest the time in doing so I would like to know if someone has enterprise chrome (https://cloud.google.com/chrome-enterprise/browser/download/#chrome-browser-policies) installed on their machine and have strict policies (no access to camera and microphone) would my electron app be affected by it?
Well it turns out chrome enterprise policy does not affect electron based apps.
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I am figuring out ways to install chrome extensions on windows machines without hosting extension on chrome web store. I found a way to use windows registry but seems like there also update url should also be from chrome web store(attached links below for reference). Is there any other alternative to install extensions on user machines without hosting it on web store.
https://developer.chrome.com/apps/external_extensions#preferences
https://blog.chromium.org/2013/11/protecting-windows-users-from-malicious.html.
Note that I don't need it for development purpose.It is for the users who want to test the extension before we publish release it
I studied the Android samples in GitHub and the Kaa sandbox, and noticed that those apps are standardized and can not be changed.
Then I tried to build-up my own Android app base on the library in the downloaded SDK, but didn't find out a way.
Can you help with the following ?
Which Android developing tool (IDE) is recommend to develop Kaa Android apps?
How can I make my Android app downloadable in sandbox web page?
How can I publish it?
You can use any one IDE for the development of your own Android application with or without use of Kaa SDK. Kaa does not provide any recommendations usually. But, we use IDEA Studio at the moment.
You should not normally add any applications to the Kaa Sandbox. This is complex and requires many steps to do.
But, you can contribute your application to the Sample Apps GitHub repository. This way, it might be included into one of the next future Kaa Sandbox releases.
To publish your Android application, you can do any combination of the next:
Contribute the application to the Sample Applications repository on GitHub so it might be included into the future Kaa Sandbox releases
Publish your application on Google Play Market just as any other Android application so it will be publicly available for all Android users.
Note: Due to the nature of the Kaa SDK emdedded into the Kaa-based Android applications, the published application will be bound to one Kaa server (or cluster) the SDK was generated on. This applies some limitations on the Android applications published to the Google Play Market.
Can't find an answer to this anywhere.
We have a prototype PhoneGap app that we deploy to Android devices. Using Chrome Developer tools we can debug it using the normal tools edit CSS etc and it will change the display on the device.
This is all great but I was wondering is there a way to use the screencast tool that displays your phone screen within developer tools for a phonegap app. From what I can tell it on;y seems to be able to pick up sites open in Chrome on the android device.
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Ashley
Screencasting of WebViews is not supported at this time.
Maybe it's not exactly what you are looking for, but it helped me when troubleshooting:
Depending on the toolset you are using, you can try to access your local webserver on your development machine from the chrome browser on your android device. For this to work, the phone must be in your network (Wi-Fi).
I'm developing a PhoneGap app using Visual Studio and configured my environment to allow access from remote computers, see this blog post.
I also ran this command for my 'web site', found on the blog of Scott Hanselman:
C:\Program Files (x86)\IIS Express>IisExpressAdminCmd.exe
setupFriendlyHostnameUrl -url:http://yourcomputername:555/
Finally I was able to use the Screencasting feature, using the chrome browser from android.
Except that I was not able to use hardware features such as NFC, using the app via the browser felt the same.
For other environments, the procedure to enable remote access should be similar.
Martin
I'm working on a Chrome app, and I'm wondering if there is a way to offer customers a single downloadable package that will provide both Chrome (the browser) and my app.
You sometimes see this with Java and Adobe AIR apps. You can either download just the app (if you already have the JVM or AIR, respectively), or you can download a package that includes the app plus the runtime.
In this case, Chrome is the runtime. Is there a way to offer a single download that will install Chrome along with my app? I can offer that as an option for users who do not already have Chrome installed.
This is something that is being actively developed now. The bug to follow is https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=341353, but there isn't much visible there as it is being developed in an internal repository at Google.
I have a HTML5 app, that I need to redistribute as a desktop application. One solution could be Chrome packaged apps, but it seems you can only install those packages using the Chrome webstore.
Is there an easy way to distribute Chrome apps using a stand-alone installer, and without requiring the end-user to have Chrome installed?
You can install them using the .crx file given to you while packaging, but that still requires chrome. Actually, you pretty much have to somehow have chrome on the target, as the standalone apps use it's framework. Hope it helps.
The CefView example from the Chromium Embedded Framework project could server for this.