Mobile Chrome Apps

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Mobile Web Apps

Sampo SavolainenSpatineo.com

@samposampo codeforcode.com

Chrome Apps

Apps managed by Chrome

Offline, auto update, sandboxed

Google's desktop takeover maneuver part 2

http://chrome.blogspot.com/2013/09/a-new-breed-of-chrome-apps.html

Mobile Chrome Apps

Early dev preview: Chrome Apps on mobile Install target SDK

npm install -g cca

You're done!

http://blog.chromium.org/2014/01/run-chrome-apps-on-mobile-using-apache.html

https://github.com/MobileChromeApps/mobile-chrome-apps

Demo time

(don't wait until the end with your questions)

More than just a browser

Cordova plugins (media, sensors, camera etc)

Chrome APIsIdentity

Payments (alpha)

Power

Notifications! (Android only though)+ many more

Not everything though (missing stuff like indexedDB, HTML audio ..)

Debugging (Android)

Basic Android Chrome debug procedure works!

Connect device with USB

Open Chrome on device & desktop

Desktop:chrome://inspect

Radio Helsinki Player

Streamlined app for RHListen to broadcast stream

Read shout box comments

Free, no ads

Feature complete in ~4 hours

Dev preview? 0 ANR's or crashes

Recap

Great work flow, simple tool

Web tech enables fast development

But

No Cordova plugins on desktop (mock)

Device compatibility issues will be a pain

Web tech has limits

Thanks!

Questions?