[Sugar-devel] Chromium integration inside the sugar shell (was Re: Kicking off HTML5 activities work)

[Simon Schampijer]

On 04/22/2013 12:24 PM, Simon Schampijer wrote:
> On 04/17/2013 05:39 PM, Daniel Narvaez wrote:
>> Thanks Daniel. Lots of interesting points here!
>> [...]
>> 3. I see this project as a way of taking us closer to Sugar (in some
>>> sense) on Android. Can Chrome webapps work as first-class citizens on
>>> Android?
>>>
>>
>> That's actually something I was thinking about. I have the feeling they
>> cannot at the moment, but it would be useful if someone with an Android
>> phone could confirm.
>>
>> It doesn't seem like a point against using Chrome in Sugar though, we
>> wouldn't be any better off with WebKit, rather it would be in point in
>> favor if it was possible.
>
> I looked around if it is possible to run Chrome webapps on Android. In
> the chrome version you can download from the store "chrome://settings/"
> is not available, so I can not do the same thing I did in chrome on
> Fedora and following the webapp examples [1].
>
> I did not find any other means on trying this out, if someone has a
> pointer, I have an Android device to check.
>
> While looking around I came across an article [2] about Android and
> Chrome merging possibly in the future. Some interesting food for the
> "Sugar on Android" discussion and if it makes sense to bet on native
> Android apps or webapps in chrome.
>
> Regards,
>     Simon
>
> [1] http://developer.chrome.com/trunk/apps/first_app.html
> [2]
> http://techland.time.com/2013/03/18/the-coming-merger-of-google-chrome-and-android/

And of course there are different information bits to the "chrome & 
Android merge", e.g.:

http://techcrunch.com/2013/03/21/chrome-android-still-merging/

http://www.omgchrome.com/when-will-chrome-and-android-merge/

Simon