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January 29, 2014

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Chrome apps will soon arrive on Android and iOS devices

by John_A

Last month, we discovered Google was working on a tool that would port Chrome apps to both Android and iOS. Today, the folks in Mountain View released a developer preview that does just that. Like the early rumblings suggested, it’s based on open-source Apache Cordova, which leverages the software’s native HTML, CSS and JavaScript. This means that the software will get wrapped in the stylings of a native app and can be submitted to each app store for distribution. There’s also a slew of Chrome APIs available that you’d expect to see in mobile apps, including the ability to build in payments, notifications and alarms on top of those offered by the Cordova platform. Now that the tools are in the hands of devs, we’ll have to bide our time until the finished Chrome apps begin to surface.

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Via: The Verge

Source: Chromium Blog

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  1. wpandroidsignuptest24568643's avatar
    wpandroidsignuptest24568643
    Jan 29 2014

    I welcome our new web app overlords.

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