I've found some similar questions but none that address my particular use case, I have a PWA written in Angular that displays a menu with external links. For example I might open the PWA and see a menu with an icon for Stackoverflow, Github and Reddit. When I open these links they open in a knowdown version of the browser I am using and for some users in a seperate browser instance altogether.
Would it be possible to hide the URL bar at the top of the screen? My goal is to hide the URL from the user if possible. Before I was using an Android app that was just a webview and that worked great but turned out to be impractical for the use case.
A solution that involves whitelisting domains will not work as I do not know which domains will appear on the links menu.
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Chromium-based browser has the apps page at chrome://apps
There are some apps that I have installed into it. Is it able to launch one of them from JavaScript somewhat just like opening file selecting box?
I can open chrome://apps by setting this URL in to a link, but how about a single app?
Copied from: Open Chrome in a new window (Chrome app)
Sadly, there's no way to do that I know of.
Using window.open in an app's context is a bit of a hack, but results in the URL being open in the user's default browser (not necessarily Chrome). There's no control as to how the browser chooses to open it.
There's a Chrome App-specific API that was created specifically with "open a page in Chrome" in mind, chrome.browser. However, it still doesn't provide an option to open in a new window.
The closest you can get is to create your own "browser": an app window with an in it. Then you have full control over the presentation, but it's not integrated with Chrome's profile and may require additional work to implement things like dialogs and browser controls. See the Browser sample app and documentation.
You may need the app id which you can then append to the URL. I am not entirely sure how you would find but if you go to the apps page on chrome, drag the icon of the app to the search bar in the browser, you should get the full link.
For instance, I dragged the Google Slides Icon onto the search bar and it gave me this url chrome-extension://aapocclcgogkmnckokdopfmhonfmgoek/main.html. So, you may give it a shot! Try to open the chrome apps page, then drag the app you want to open in new tab onto the search bar.
Hence, using Javascript:
window.open("chrome-extension://aapocclcgogkmnckokdopfmhonfmgoek/main.html", "_blank");
Opens Google Slides App in a new tab.
I am getting confused understanding the practices generally followed in the popular chrome extensions. I am trying to develop my own chrome extension and after going through the basic tutorial, I have a default popup page that opens whenever I click the extension icon near my address bar. So far so good! While checking the source codes of some good extensions installed in my chrome browser, I came to know, none of them uses the default_popup page but definitely invokes some javascripts through either the background page or content scripts. But the final behaviour as seen by the user is functionally like a popup at the upper right corner of the screen, though more presentable. Is there any reason for not using default_popup over using other mechanisms?
I think it really depends on what your app needs in terms of functionality and design. As there are no real reasons why you might want to choose one over the other. Most information can be passed from the page to the extension app and vice versa. Users expect a popup when they click on the button but injected popups are also supported and commonly used in Chrome, Firefox and Safari.
Pros/Cons:
If your extension depends on the page content then you can inject scripts that analyze the page and inject divs accordingly. You can send analyzed data back to the extension and open a popup but thats an additional step. If your extension has nothing to do with the specific page then you would be better off using a popup.
Popups close when you switch tabs or your browser loses focus. Injected popups need not.
Don't inject scripts and stylesheets into pages willy nilly. They interfere with a website's native js/css and also stuff injected by other externsions which is near impossible to fully account for.
I have a Web Desktop Bookmarking site and I want users to be able to drag and drop the Site Icon from the browser bar to my JavaScript App in another tab. This works nicely in Chrome (if you try), but I'm not sure what the code is to accept the drop event and read the url from the link dropped in.
A quick look at my site would give an idea how this added functionality would be a useful feature. Booky: Your Personal Bookmark Web Desktop
How do I do that?
i made a android app using it's web view. there contain a lot of functions. payment integration etc. i integrate this payment method using a third party tool. This tool provide an external html page. when i load this page directly in to my web view it's work nicely.
but after i got a requirement that there need a back button in the payment page. after then i add this page using an IFRAME. after there is number of issues came related to the design. the content is not fitting in the IFRAME also there is not displaying the scroll bars.
i tried differant kind of javascript method but no output.
If any solution present for this
Answer to the iframe scrolling problem
1.Zoom in until the iframe portion of the page completely fills the screen.
Tes might activiate the scrollbar and allow you to scroll the iframe.
2.Try double-touching the screen. This means you use two fingers to scroll on the iframe area.
3.If neither #1 or #2 work, try a different browser such as Dolphin, xScope, or Opera.
If none of those three work, try out Firefox. I listed Firefox separately and last because it is slow and resource-intensive on Android, but if it's your only recourse, then use it only when you must.
Can you provide more information on the content not fitting inside the iframe?
This has a lot to do with my previous question:
detecting UIWebView with Javascript
I would like to force a link on my webpage to be opened with iPhones actual Safari Browser, and not in a UIWebView window, even if the app it's being viewed in tried to open all links in a UIWebView window to prevent users from going out of it.
Please note that this is not a duplicate as I'm trying to do this with Javascript/Client-side, not within my own native app (I own the page that's being viewed, but can't control which app is used to view it).
I do not think this is possible. I set up one of my apps to use a UIWebView only and never open Sarfari (though admittedly I allowed only pages within a certain domain).