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What's the future for Chrome Remote Desktop?
by bane 9y ago
What's the future for Chrome Remote Desktop?
- dragonwriter 9y agoJust to suggest a possibility: Chrome Remote Desktop is also an Android app and the technology to run Android apps in Chrome on Desktop has been available for some time; it shouldn't take much, if Google wanted, to let desktop Chrome use the Play Store and use APKs directly rather than repackaging them (as via the developer preview ARC Welder tool) into CRXs.
- pgrote 9y agoThey are deprecating the app and going to a web application. There is also a companion extension, but I am unsure what purpose it serves. https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/chrome/uVCvlergXOE;context-place=topicsearchin/chrome/apps https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/chrome/uVCvle... https://remotedesktop.google.com/ https://remotedesktop.google.com/
- dragonwriter 9y agoExtensions can use some APIs that are not available to web apps (but not all of the ones that Chrome Apps could use), and Web App + Extension is one of the Google recommended migration paths for Chrome Apps that use functionality beyond that available to pure web apps.