I was trying to publish a new version of an Add-on that was already created, but when I tried to publish it, in the Developer Dashboard and on the top of the page a warning message was shown:
As of November 21st, 2016, all newly published packaged or hosted apps are restricted to Chrome OS, and are not available to users on Windows, Mac or Linux. Existing apps will continue to be available on all major platforms and will continue to receive updates. - More Info
Note: This change does not apply to Google Drive Apps or Add-Ons for Google Apps.
So if you click on the "More Info" button you will see more additional information.
So all of this should be a problem to me because I have important applications that I need everyday, so I wonder if there is any other alternative way to keep working with add-ons.
Thank you!
AFAIK, this change (if Google decides to proceed with it) would only apply to Chrome Apps (see my answer here).
In the Chromium Blogpost (also the link for More Info in your post), it mentioned:
In the second half of 2017, the Chrome Web Store will no longer show Chrome apps on Windows, Mac, and Linux, but will continue to surface extensions and themes.
Add-ons weren't specifically mentioned, but as already included in your post, Add-ons that are for Google Drive Apps or any Google Apps in general (e.g. Docs, Sheets, etc.) are the exception.
If you're add-on is associated with a non-Google App, it is possible that you will be affected with the change. Seeing as the Chrome App will be removed, the associated Add-ons would follow.
You probably already know the differences between a Chrome App, an Extension, and an Add-on, but for future readers that are not familiar, might as well post this link to a YouTube video that explains Apps vs Extensions vs Add-ons.
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I am working on an automation project, in which I need to capture the activities [ application launched, data entered, input type etc.] user performs on a desktop. I came across Microsoft UI Automation framework which so far works well for native windows based applications like MS Office, .NET apps etc. However I did not find any useful information / samples of capturing the information from different web browsers [Chrome is a must], Python apps, Java Apps etc. Can someone please confirm whether MS UI Automation Framework supports such apps. Any working example to extract user activities from these apps would be highly appreciated. Thanks.
Chrome only supports UI Automation for toolbars, tabs, menu, buttons around the web page. Everything that's rendered as a web page is not seen by UIA.
For the web page content, the easiest way is to use Selenium (driven by the ChromeDriver), which is kind of a de facto standard for browsers, and has nothing to do with UIA.
To test if an app supports UIA, and how far it does, it's very easy, just run UIA's Inspect tool and check the UI tree over that application.
Some additions to Simon's answer...
Chrome page content can be seen by UIA if you run chrome --force-renderer-accessibility. Only for existing Chrome process it won't work. Though user can create a new tab chrome://accessibility manually and enable UIA for all or some chosen pages. This method also works for AT-SPI accessibility technology on Linux. Of course, Selenium WebDriver is an industry standard here. But another way exists. Both Mozilla and IE support UIA by default.
Inspect.exe can be simply downloaded from this GitHub repo.
Regarding Java apps it depends on the app type. Your chances is about 50/50.
WxPython or PyQt5 are good for UIA. TkInter or Kivy apps are not.
P.S. There is an example how to drag a file from explorer.exe and drop to Google Drive in Chrome using Python library pywinauto.
I'm a bit late to the party..
But Chromes accessibility features are only activated once something tries to access it's accessibility.
If you call AccessibleObjectFromWindow ([DllImport("oleacc.dll")]) with the window handle an existing chrome window will have its accessibility activated (and you'll see the actual web page content in UIA!).
If the chrome window is opened after your app is running - Chrome pings open processes for any open accessibility apps... for that you use AccessibleObjectFromEvent and the event you're responding to comes from the windows pipeline: EVENT_SYSTEM_ALERT = 0x0002 .
The bottom line is - you have to tell chrome that there's something installed that wants to access it's web page content.
Oh! and your application has to be signed!! Unsigned apps won't be able to access web content - I think that's the same in firefox too.
I hope this helps someone in the future.
See:
https://www.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/accessibility
In an online version of draw.io you can enable extra plugins using their url like this https://www.draw.io/?p=svgdata (svgdata is the plugin id)
Is there a way to enable a plugin using Chrome app?
No.
In online version, the Plugins is listed under extras.
In offline as well as in Chrome App, you can't see such an Option
Which means you can't add plugins in the offline version.
Remaining functionalities that you will miss in the offline version
You can’t access or store diagrams using cloud services like Dropbox, GitHub, etc.
Save diagrams to your device or browser instead.
Online help is not available
You can’t insert PlantUML text data.
Math typesetting is not available.
Templates are not available for creating new diagrams.
You can’t export to PDF, but you can print as PDF.
The interface is only available in English.
source : draw.io
Then why?
May be because of issues with caching. If you add many plugins, each of them contains many files. Caching large number of files for offline usage will make the app worst and also consume more memory.
Anyway, you can submit a feature request here
Im creating a freeware application (long live the free community) and I'm trying to add various features that might drive people to use the application such as implementing whatsapp web https://web.whatsapp.com/ into the app so that the user will always have an "always on top" window with their chats rather than everytime having to switch tabs if they're multitasking on their browser.
The problem i am having is that the built in Browser control with VS 2013 does not work with whatsapp web and i get the option to use supported browsers like firefox...chrome...safari.
Is there anyway to make a VB.NET application open an actual chrome/firefox based browser within itself?
I found an article on Gecko Browser...I am not sure if web.whatsapp.com would see this as a firefox browser: http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.php?692005-Mozilla-Firefox-Gecko-Xulrunner-in-VB-NET-%28versions-14-and-up%29
Help appreciated.
Sorry if this looks like a lazy question or inappropriate to the website's quality standards , but I searched in many forums and the Cordova API and couldn't find an answer to that. This is a legitimate question.
I am studying the possibility to use Apache Cordova to implement a series of applications for mobile OSs. One of my requisites is that it is able to integrate with specific features of the OS (as obvious as it seems as this is the point of this framework).
To give a few examples of features I am talking about:
Share menu on Android: If you take a picture and then click on the
share menu, it will open a list with all the available apps that
supports sharing (ie. Facebook, Viber, WhatApp, Gmail...) [this is the most important];
Open file types: If you click on a PDF file in any file explorer in
Android, the system will give you a list of apps installed which
support reading this file type.
Be an "Account" source.
I can only give examples for Android as it's the only platform I have enough knowledge to enumerate such features, but I am sure other platforms support features equivalent to those as well.
Are Cordova apps able to "register" themselves in the platform, to tell it that they are able to perform these features?
The organization I work for has deployed the Opera web browser to many (Windows) workstations; each is using the kiosk mode. At one time, there was a very detailed help page for this feature. However, I can no longer find it. Rather, this link:
http://www.opera.com/support/mastering/kiosk/
...simply takes me to the main Opera help page...
http://www.opera.com/help
Has Opera stopped supporting this feature? Or, are they simply retooling their help documentation?
12.14 still supports the kiosk mode. During a transition to a new publishing system recently, this link seems to have been dropped. Documentation has been notified and will fix the link. In the mean time, this should work: http://web.archive.org/web/20130223014915/http://www.opera.com/support/mastering/kiosk/