Google gives Chrome OS Apps a shutdown date

guest · Jan 15, 2020

Google gives Chrome OS Apps a shutdown date
Chrome OS's homegrown app platform is going away, but there are lots of other options
January 15, 2020
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/01/google-gives-chrome-os-apps-a-shutdown-date/

Chrome's Packaged Apps have been a dead platform for a while now, after a 2016 announcement that the "App" section of Chrome's Web store would be pulled from Windows, Mac, and Linux, leaving Chrome OS as the only supported OS.

Today, Google announced that the last supported platform, Chrome OS, is losing access to Chrome apps, too, along with dates to strip the app feature out of Chrome's code base. Google writes it "will begin phasing out support for Chrome Apps across all operating systems as follows:" [...]

Chrome OS is the real news here, and it will continue to cling to the feature until June 2022.
Chrome OS supports a number of platforms that get presented in the "app" style, so keep in mind only the "Chrome Packaged Apps" are going away.
Chrome OS will still keep its app-like shortcuts to websites, along with support for "Progressive Web Apps (PWA)"—Web APIs that support app-style features like push notifications and offline functionality.
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Google: Moving Forward from Chrome Apps

guest · Apr 13, 2020

Google is replacing some Android apps in Chrome OS with web apps
Twitter and YouTube TV are up first
April 13, 2020
https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/13/...book-replacing-progressive-twitter-youtube-tv

Google is replacing some Android apps for Chromebooks with Progressive Web Apps (PWAs). A PWA is essentially a webpage that looks and feels like a traditional app.

This will certainly be good news for many Chromebook owners. In some cases, PWAs are faster and more functional than their Android counterparts. PWAs also take up less storage and require less juice to run.
It’s also no secret that some Android apps on Chrome OS are terrible. Google has struggled for years to optimize Android apps to work on tablet-sized screens. And while the viable selection has certainly improved since the Pixelbook days, there are still a number of programs notorious for not playing nice.

The first app we know about to receive this treatment was Twitter, which Chrome Unboxed spotted last week. Dominick Ng, tech lead on Google’s Chrome OS team, has since confirmed to Chrome Unboxed that YouTube TV is getting a PWA replacement as well.
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Progressive Web Apps were available in the Play Store before, but the difference is that they’re now the default versions of Twitter and YouTube TV, respectively.
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guest · Aug 10, 2020

Google is delaying the shutdown of Chrome apps, but you probably weren’t using them anyway
The company extended its shutdown timeline for Chrome apps
August 10, 2020
https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/10/...pps-delay-shutdown-timeline-support-2021-2022

Google is going to let you use Chrome apps for a little while longer, as the company on Monday announced an extension to its planned timeline to end support for the software (via 9to5Google).

If you aren’t familiar with Chrome apps, they’re apps that you install in Chrome that work similarly to apps that you’d launch from your desktop [...] Google said that “approximately 1 percent of users on Windows, Mac, and Linux actively use Chrome packaged apps” all the way back in August 2016 when it first announced plans to wind down support for the platform.
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In January, Google said Chrome apps would stop working on Windows, Mac, and Linux this year [...]
Now, Google says Chrome apps will work on those platforms until June 2021. Organizations can extend support for Chrome apps on those platforms for an extra year, meaning they’ll work through June 2022.

And if you’re a Chrome OS user, Google will now end support for Chrome apps in June 2022 instead of June of next year. But no matter what platform you’re on, Google says support for Chrome apps will end on all platforms by June 2022.
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Google: Changes to the Chrome App Support Timeline

Based on feedback from our customers and partners, we are making the following adjustments to the Chrome app support timeline, with modifications highlighted in bold: [...]
This change does not impact support for Chrome Extensions. Google will continue to support and invest in Chrome Extensions on all existing platforms
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