I've developed a simple Chrome hosted app and now I would like to integrate some content scripts in it but according to the documentation, it seems that this kind of app can't integrate content scripts.
Should I develop 2 separate apps? The first which is just the hosted app, adding an icon to the dashboard and letting users launching my web app in seconds and a second with the content scripts or is their a way to achieve that with one app?
Thanks for your help.
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I am setting my website to be advertised by google using google ads. In doing so I came across a section Set up analytics on your website there it showed two options out of which one is Sign in to your website builder, web hosting service, or commerce platform and paste your tracking ID into the analytics section.
I am using firebase hosting service for my website. So as mentioned I went to the analytics section of firebase but I am unable to understand where I have to paste the tracking id.
Please guide me.
If you have Firebase hosting, then you don't need to paste the tracking ID.
Just make sure you add a web app and link it with your current hosted application.
This might change overtime, but on the Firebase console, go to project settings, and scroll down till you see Your apps section. Add (if doesn't exists) a web app, and you should see a Linked Firebase Hosting site
Once linked, Analytics will start tracking metrics for you.
there is no need of going to firebase, google analytics can do it for you just go to their website navigate to your website and copy the javascript code and paste it just below the head tag
Understandably, PWAs (Progressive Web Apps) are added to home screen after the user visits the web app in a supported browser and clicks on "Add to Home Screen". This works fine for publicly available PWAs.
Thinking of Enterprise Android applications, which needs to be installed to thousands of devices via some app push tools like Airwatch, its practically not possible to have someone open the browser, put the URL and then add to home screen in all thousands of devices.
Is there any other way to automate this deploy/add icon to home screen of a Progressive Web App, not needing the user to visit the web app in a browser, and clicking on "Add to Home Screen" ?
One option we thought about is wrapping in Cordova, but we're trying to find a solution without such wrapper.
Chrome for Android generates and signs .apk file on the fly using WebPack, when the user clicks on "Add to Home screen" (from menu or install banner) option and if the site has a valid manifest.json and service worker.
Extracting and distributing APK: This .apk can be located and exported to desktop using file explorer tools. For some reason, some of default file explorer tools couldn't locate this .apk file. Once exported, this .apk can be used to distribute in controlled environment..like in enterprise devices, where you can enforce the deceive to have Chrome Browser. If this .apk is installed to devices which don't have Chrome browser, user will get a message saying "Chrome" is required to open this app. Once installed, installed PWA apk can be used.
For distributing PWA apps through Play store, google is streamlining the process. A google engineers repose on building APKs (March-2018), when we reached out to them for our enterprise needs.
"Well done extracting the APK and deploying it, it should give a good experience to end users, but I agree it shouldn't be that complicated to deploy web apps on Android.
We are currently working on a streamlined web apps feature, with which you wouldn't need to manipulate or build APKs. This feature will be available on managed devices using Play to deliver apps"
Alternate options: If you think your user base may not have Chrome or don't want to rely on that dependency, wrapping with Cordova kind of hybrid solution is the only way to build your PWA apps for distribution in app stores. With this option, if the "webpack" in the device has the version 40+, user will get PWA benefits. Otherwise, it will still work as a regular hosted web app.
Update on TWA - Trusted web activity is the official way to pack PWA for Android and its available in Chrome 72 and it also supports private/enterprise web apps as the digital assets validation happens in browser now(it use to happen in cloud, making this solution not possible for private web apps).
You can upload the PWA to Playstore using tools like PWA2APK. Just need to share the play store URL to the users, from which they can download PWA app like normal Android App.
Trusted Web activities are a new way to integrate your web-app content such as your PWA with your Android app using a similar protocol to Chrome Custom Tabs.
Trusted Web activities
Was wondering if I had a web-application on www.mydomain.com/userportal etc but didn't want this accessable via the browser, but as a chrome application similar to how Google's Hangouts is a seperate window / popup - How easy is it to implement an already built application into one of these windows?
If I understand you correctly, you would like to display your www site as a Chrome App. Chrome apps are all HTML/CSS/JS files hosted on the computer but they can display a webview into a site online. However, Chrome Apps must be 'offline' first. So you must ask for permissions to all online activity.
Ideally you would make separate app hosted as a Chrome App (not link/embedded to a www site) that uses an API to talk to a web-app.
Keep in mind that Google is phasing out Chrome Apps for all platforms except Chrome OS in the near future.
I'm developing a JavaScript application using the Google UI Service that I want to eventually deploy as a Google Web App.
I'd like to include several graphics in the user interface, but I'm finding the documentation for this on the Google developer pages quite thin.
Is there a way to "bundle" the graphics used in the app with the Web App?
Or do they need to be publicly available on a web page and referenced in the Web App by URL?
You cannot bundle them. You have to have them available publicly on the Internet and you can only create an Image object with the URL.
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