The toolchain for running Chrome Apps on mobile is in early developer preview. Feel free to give us your feedback using the Github issue tracker, our Chrome Apps developer forum, on Stack Overflow, or our G+ Developers page.
For an overview of hybrid development, Chrome Apps on mobile, and our Chrome App Developer Tool, check out our Google I/O DevByte.
You can run your Chrome Apps on Android and iOS via the cca
command-line tool. This tool wraps your application's web code with a native Android/iOS application shell, creating a hybrid app, and allowing you to distribute via Google Play and the Apple App Store. You can learn more from our FAQ.
The Chrome Apps for Mobile project is built on top of Apache Cordova, the open source mobile development framework for building mobile apps with native capabilities using HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
Try out the cca
toolchain by following these steps:
The Chrome App Developer Tool enables a fast edit/refresh cycle when developing your mobile Chrome App. It can also be used alongside the Chrome Dev Editor IDE to support rapid, SDK-less development!
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There are a few special considerations that you should keep in mind when developing with Cordova; we've listed them in the considerations section.
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To view which Chrome APIs are supported on mobile, visit the API Status page.
Continue to Step 1: Install your development tools »