I created a Windows app using Visual Studio Express, it was not very difficult, because CEF includes a “cefclient” sample project that you can use as a template to start your project development. Using CEF requires a small knowledge about Windows/Mac desktop app development. You can also create a Windows/Mac installer to distribute the app (I used InnoSetup, but this is another story…). So you can convert any HTML5 to a traditional desktop app (and I bet some users to try guessing if Mobialia Chess 3D is an HTML5 app). Microsoft provides some tools to package HTML apps to native apps, but they will run with the Internet Explorer engine, lacking features like WebGL, WebRTC, etc.Ĭhromium Embedded Framework (CEF) is a library that allows to embed a Chromium webview in your native Windows or Mac desktop application. Recently I found this problem trying to package Mobialia Chess 3D for Windows 8. HTML5 is a fantastic app framework, but there are many environments where you cannot rely on the features support of the browser (specially when dealing against Internet Explorer, old windows versions or environments where you cannot freely upgrade the browsers). This entry was posted in Computers and tagged chrome html javascript webgl on by rui This opens a lot of new possibilities for Android, now running inside browsers like Flash, … and confirms my “theory” that Android is only a virtual machine (IMHO, the underlying SO is Linux :P). It does not support GL_TEXTURE_CUBE_MAP in OpenGL ES (and my app crashes)īut I consider it SPECTACULAR.It does not support apps using the Android NDK.It does not support Google Play Services.I tested all my Android apps and I was very surprised with the results, they load fast and run smooth.
Once installed, it appears as a regular Chrome app. The generated extension contains the APK and some support files. Then each Android APK must be converted to an unpacked extension with a Node-JS based tool, chromeos-apk ( ) and loaded into Chrome. This ARChon extension is a 100MB zip that must be unzipped and loaded into Chrome as an unpacked extension. Find the latest games and apps on this website.īased on this Google work, Vlad Filippov released an unofficial Chrome extension called ARChon ( ) to allow this for all the desktop Chromes (Linux, Mac & Windows). It works with a Chrome extension that implements an Android virtual machine running over the Native Client (NaCL is a sandbox for running compiled C and C++ code inside Chrome). I couldn’t believe it when somebody told me: Google is running Android apps in ChromeBooks and some selected apps can be installed from the Chrome Webstore. This entry was posted in Computers and tagged android chrome java mobile on by rui
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