I found the api in chrome extension docs which reads the api is deprecated chrome app platform. Does this mean the api is accessible for chrome extension now? However, it seems something goes wrong when I take it as an extension api.
There is a currently experimental API. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/USB
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When navigating to "native massaging" documentation, first thing you see is a warning:
Important: Chrome will be removing support for Chrome Apps on all
platforms. Chrome browser and the Chrome Web Store will continue to
support extensions. Read the announcement and learn more about
migrating your app.
Since all this documentation located under Chrome Apps docs, is it means that "native messaging" feature going away as well? If it is, what is the alternative for communicating with chrome extension from the outside?
This could be layman question. I use the postman application which i got from the chrome extension. It was soo good. I really want to know in which language it is written? Is it written completely in javascript and packaged using some tools like cardova? Or any native language is used?
It is a "chrome app" written in HTML5, CSS, and JavaScript.
About Chrome apps
Google through Chrome allows this application to run in a native container that work on any operating system example: Mac OS, Linux.
In order to publish the app , developers can package and upload the app source files to chrome web store. refer the link for further details
Check the Postman Legacy Repo which is available in GitHub.
https://github.com/postmanlabs/postman-chrome-extension-legacy/tree/develop/chrome
They used the following technologies
JS Framework: AngularJS
CSS Framework: Bootstrap
Template Engine: Handlebar
DOM: jQuery, jQuery UI and many more jQuery Plugins.
Other: vkBeautify, Underscore and many more.
In General about Chrome Extension. This is chrome plugin which is built with manifest.json (Configuration file) and Chrome API.
You can include your HTML, JS and other JS Library or Framework as per your Extension Scope.
How to build the Chrome Plugin ?
1. Enable Developer Mode
2. Load your extension
Finally once you are done with extension development, you can pack it as CRX file to upload it to Chrome Web Store through pack extension button
I have a Chrome extension that uses the chrome.management API to get a list of installed Chrome extensions and apps. The problem starts because I also want to use the chrome.syncFileSystem API which only seems to be available to Chrome apps.
If I switch the extension to an app, I can no longer use the chrome.management API. I haven't been able to find an API to access the installed extensions from an app. Any tips?
I don't think you can, not without having both an extension and an app.
Google has a private API to do that, but for public API, they want apps to be as independent as possible from the browser.
I'm writing an extension.
A part of this extension contains an html page.
I'd call that page, also as a Google Apps,
inserting an icon between applications of chrome.
It's possible create a manifest file to integrate the chrome app with chrome extension?
No. You'd create both an app an an extension, then encourage the user to install both if you detected that one wasn't installed.
There is an outstanding feature request to allow bundled installations of multiple apps/extensions.
I'm really confused. I want to make a Chrome Extension that can update a user's Google Calendar, what kind of program should I register under Google API?
Is it Web App? But I don't plan to have a server to host anything because Chrome Extensions are in the browser itself.
I really don't think it's a service account, but if it is, somebody enlighten me!
So that leaves installed applications?
Well, Google Extensions and Google API are very different in nature, and they don't have a special way to comunicate themselves.
Chrome Extensions are javascript code running in the browser allowed by a Chrome user, with more rights than a normal page; while Google API is accessed by server code, just as Google Apps Scripts (javascript code running in a Google server with some Google user's right).