I searched all over and couldn't find my specific issue here so please excuse me if my search-fu has failed me.
My issue:
I am currently trying to create a kiosk app for my company's chromeboxes. I have the application packaged and published privately on the chrome web store. I get the app to load but once I launch the kiosk app and enter in my company's url I am presented with, "Unsupported Chrome App Origin Detected". The only thing I can find so far about this is to run the flag --disable-web-security. I can only find examples for Windows/Mac/Linux plus that isn't secure. Am I missing something in my Default.cr or manifest.json files? Is this even possible? This is on a vanilla chromebox that isn't part of a Google Apps domain. Do I need to have it added to a Google Apps for Work domain to get this to work? Any help would be appreciated.
Please add your generated chrome extension app id to storefront web.config file. Please have a look at http://docs.citrix.com/en-us/receiver/chrome/1-7/receiver-chrome-deploy.html point 8 at the end on how to do it.
Also please use 1.7 as it supports better Kiosk mode integration.
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I'm new to making chrome apps and extensions, working on my first app. I need access to alist of the installed apps on chrome with their relevant details and icon, so I used chrome.management. However, when I try to use it in my app, I get the error
'management' is only allowed for extensions and legacy packaged apps,
but this is a packaged app.
Looking at the api page, chrome.management is indeed not listed under the "Apps" tab, but the "Extensions" one.
Is there any other way I can have access to the information in an app? Chrome app launcher did it... not sure if there were any super secret special permissions involved.
I am making a chrome extension, and for the purposes of my Chrome Extension, I am wanting users to be able to sign in to their Google account so they can send information to a server. I have been reading about user authentication and whatnot from the Google documents, but this is for apps that are being published into the store, and mine is in development. This is brand new territory for me, and I am lost. I feel like there's something that I must be missing, but I don't know how to get started.
Thanks.
Check this documentation about the quick way of loading up your working directory for testing. Extensions that you download from the Chrome Web Store are packaged up as .crx files, which is great for distribution, but not so great for development.
I'm developing a chrome packaged app and chrome extension, both of them communicate with one another, and i want to lunch my packaged app from a chrome extension, is there any way to do it?
Note:
I've tried using the launchApp method of chrome management api, but for some unknown reason the chrome.management is undefined in my chrome extension JS code, although i have specified management permission in my manifest file like so:
"permissions": ["management"]
Does anyone have a idea what is the problem, or there are any other way i can do it ?
Thanks for help:)
There are 2 possible reasons for not being able to use chrome.management.
You have not reloaded your extension properly
You are trying to call this from a content script; you can't do that, since a content script has very restricted access to Chrome API. You need to message a background page to do this for you.
That said, there is a better way to do it if you write both your extension and your app. "management" permission is a big hammer and will generate a warning to the user on installation.
Instead, you can send a cross-extension message to your app. It will wake it up and you can launch your main window from there. See this answer for details.
I'm interested in writing a Packaged App that can access data about chrome, namely the chrome.windows.onCreated and chrome.windows.onRemoved events. If I try to add a listener to either of these, I get an error in the console:
Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'onRemoved' of undefined
Is there any way around this?
The other answers are correct that this isn't directly possible from a packaged app, but there is a solution that meets your needs: You can write an extension as well as a packaged app and have them communicate with chrome.runtime.sendMessage.
The user will have to install both app and extension, but you can make this easy by directing them to the chrome web store from within your application. You can read about this here: Communicating between a Chrome packaged app and a Chrome extension?
Edit: and as pointed out in a comment on that thread, there is a Chrome App Sample that helps demonstrate this in action: https://github.com/GoogleChrome/chrome-app-samples/tree/master/messaging
The chrome.windows API is a Chrome extension API, not a packaged apps API. It is used by extensions to interact with browser windows.
If you can write your application as an extension, it will be able to use that API. Packaged apps, however, don't have the ability to manipulate other windows besides their own.
One simple typo here: It is chrome.windows.onRemoved not chrome.windows.OnRemoved ;)
Note the lowercase o.
I'm following this guide to create a sample web app which implements the Google Drive PHP SDK.
When I access the URL, the app keeps redirecting to the same page in an infinite loop, so no content is shown actually. Any idea why this is happening? Is it due to some mistake I made in the config file?
The document says how to implement the sample app - called DrEdit - as a Google Chrome application. Can anyone tell me if it is possible to use the SDK for creating non-Google Chrome apps? Also, does anyone have any example implementation of the Google Drive SDK?
If you provide more information and code, we can debug your first issue.
Otherwise:
Yes, you can write apps for Drive that are not Chrome apps. Chrome Web Store is an optional distribution mechanism for the API. Your apps will work in any browser.
There are documented PHP snippets for every API method, e.g. https://developers.google.com/drive/v1/reference/files/get