Google Brings Chrome Apps to Mobile

Pete Prestipino
by Pete Prestipino 30 Jan, 2014
Google Brings Chrome Apps to Mobile

Google dropped quite the digital bombshell yesterday on the developer community, announcing that offline Chrome Apps could soon find their way to both Android and iOS devices (with a little help, of course). 

The company launched a preview of a tool-chain for building native apps using HTML, CSS and JavaScript, which will provide the foundation neccessary to turn Web apps into native apps. Essentially, devs can wrap their existing Chrome apps in a native shell and submit them to Google Play and Apple's App Store . 

Google is using Apache Cordova, a set of device APIs's that allow mobile app developers to access native device function such as the camera or accelerometer. Combined with a UI framework such as jQuery Mobile or Dojo Mobile or Sencha Touch, this allows a smartphone app to be developed with just HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

Pete Prestipino
Pete Prestipino
Digital marketing executive with proven experience in all aspects of search engine optimization (SEO), performance-based advertising, consumer-generated/social media, email marketing, lead generation, Web design, usability, and analytics. - 20-year Internet marketing veteran, currently serving as the Digital Marketing Campaign Manager at Antenna Group (formerly Chicago Digital). - Former Editor-In-Chief of Website Magazine, and a regular speaker on Web technology digital marketing strategy - Author of several books on digital marketing Including Web 360: The Fundamentals of Web Success; Affiliate 360: The Fundamentals of Performance Marketing; Domains 360: The Fundamentals of Buying & Selling Domain Names, and SEO 360: The Fundamentals of Search Engine Optimization.