I have built the UI for my Google Chrome Extension, but I am trying to figure out how to implement the anymote library within a GWT web-app. Is this even possible to accomplish?
We'll be talking a bit more about this in an upcoming Google IO talk (6/28/2012). The talk is about control from the second screen which will include Chrome Extensions.
https://developers.google.com/events/io/sessions/gooio2012/1301/
I've seen it done, but don't believe the source has been made available.
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Google announced that they drop support for web apps in Chrome.
Basically, web app is a local HTML/CSS/JS app that runs in a separated custom "standalone" Chrome window.
Is there any way (preferably easy), to convert this web app to a real desktop app that not depend on Chrome in anyway? Using maybe NodeJS? If yes what is the right way to do it?
Thanks.
You could try one of these tools:
https://applicationize.me/
https://www.bzgapps.com/coherence
https://fluidapp.com/ (for Mac only)
Don't know about "easy", but it seems to me that the natural evolution is to Electron or NW.js, and both of these are mentioned in the Google blog article on this subject. (I'm moving to Electron.) Both have advantages over Chrome Apps, mostly that they are true desktop applications. To cite one example, you can now manipulate the menu bar, something out-of-bounds for Chrome Apps.
Pure JavaScript code in your Chrome App, such as anything to access the internet, should move over directly. Same for much UI stuff, as you're still using a browser window for the UI. The app will, however, have to be restructured.
Added Note: Chrome Apps ran on 4 platforms: MacOS, Windows, Linux, ChromeOS. Electron and NW.js apps won't run on ChromeOS. So, the ability to write a four-platform completely binary-portable app is going away.
I have already developed a Chrome App and Extension to communicate with serial ports of a client using API from https://developer.chrome.com/apps/serial.
Currently I do the same operation in Firefox through a Java applet.
Since support for Java applet will be deprecated soon, I would like to develop an addon for Firefox for this.
The real problem is that I can't find any documentations in https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API for an API able to work like the Chrome serial.
Since you tagged this as "Addon SDK" question, I will assume you're trying to develop an extension using the SDK. The way to do it there would be to have a binary that communicates with the serial port and use system/child_process to communicate with that binary from the extension.
Maybe you have a look at jUART? They support Chrome, Firefox and also plan an IE version. If *avaScript is not the right thing for you maybe you have a look at the firefox plugin implementation and get some inspiration how they did it...
I'm really keen to develop a web browser application for Android Wear devices. To make such application I need a WebView object, but the major problem is that Google has made the android.webkit API unavailable in that OS.
Since Android is open-source, is it technically possible to manually include the needed libraries, by coping them from the android source code on GitHub into my project? Are they going to work like as in a normal Android device, and is it legal?
Here is the link to the API I'd like to use.
Developing a browser based on WebView is not a good idea anyway. Although historically Android Browser was based on WebView, it had to use a lot of hidden APIs in order to work. All more or less functional browser apps based on WebView have to do the same, which makes them fragile. Also, the resulting browser app will not be as secure as a real multi-process web browser.
A better idea is to take Chromium and build it using Wear SDK. And there is already one built this way.
You don't have access to a complete source for Android Wear to build a complete image.
Sorry for this very basic question but it's important to know.
I never used this kind of framework before and i am interested by trying ionic !
We can build html5/AngularJS apps with this framework, but is it only to generate native code for mobile apps or can we also use our code for the web app (should we maintain 2 different code ?) ?
Check out the browser support section
Ionic is focused on building native/hybrid mobile apps rather than
mobile websites.
While you can get support from webkit, there isn't much support for other desktop browsers because, well it's just not what we want to focus on :)
It is browser competible, however not officially supported.
I'm looking for a way to easily port content driven applications from one mobile platform to another. Currently HTML5+js seems to be the only language that can be easily reused.
Can you share your experience? I'm looking for a way to go forward.
Have you taken a look at Titanium Mobile?
http://www.appcelerator.com/products/titanium-mobile-application-development/
You can build apps for iPhone/iPad & Android using JavaScript - doesn't support blackberry (yet), though.
You are right. HTML5+CSS+JavaScript is a viable and recommended solution for cross-platform mobile apps. If you're already familiar with these technologies there is no reason for you to learn a new one (such as Titanium Mobile as was suggested by someone else).