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Sunday, June 25, 2017
Developers Can Now Bring Their Android Apps to Chrome OS
Developers Can Now Bring Their Android Apps to Chrome OS
Testing our own app with Google�s �ARC Welder� tool
Last year Google slowly began bringing select Android apps to the Chrome Web Store, allowing a batch of useful mobile apps to run on Chromebooks and other Chrome devices.
Android applications run on Chrome OS through a native client extension called �App Runtime for Chrome�, more commonly known as �ARC�, which runs Android codes at near-native speed through a sandboxed Dalvik VM.
In the months following the announcement of ARC over thirty Android apps have been added to the Web Store, including productivity powerhouse Evernote, PDF mark-up tool iAnnotate and social media fave Vine.
Some Chrome users have grown a little impatient at the slow rate of porting more desirable apps over (think Flipboard, VLC, Skype, etc) despite many lesser known utilities and educational tools wrangling their into the Web Store.
Today that changes.
ARC Opens To All
At its press event Google confirmed it plans to open the ARC programme to all Android developers, not just a select few. This means developers themselves can now dive in to test their Android app in Chrome against the ARC plugin to see what works and make changes, like adding support for keyboard tab keys and mouse input, as needed.
Finally, if all works as intended, they are free to promptly publish it to the Chrome Web Store for users to enjoy.
And there�s you thinking it was all new convertible Chromebooks and low-cost Chromebits announced!
In unlocking the flood gates for Android app developers to bring their wares to Chrome OS Google risks seeing developers shun native Chrome Apps (written in web technologies, running offline, leveraging system hardware APIs, etc) in favour of lazy ports.
Similarly, with a big focus due on Service Workers, its plan to app-ify websites with offline and push messaging features, the need for a bona-fide �Web App� is also lessened.
But whatever mess it makes for a consistent developer story it does, for now, mean more apps for users, more opportunities for developers, and more momentum for the Chrome project.
How To Test Android Apps for Chrome Using ARC Welder
The official Chrome developer documentation details the full recommended way for Android devs to get started with ARC.
In short, developers need three things:
- An APK of the application they wish to test
- A PC, Mac or Chromebook running Chrome v40 or later
- The ARC Welder app from the Chrome Web Store
Installing the ARC Welder app from the Web Store also downloads ARC plugin itself (even on Windows, Mac or Linux). Since the plugin is more than 100MB in size eager mobile devs should only install it when not on a metered, cellular or slow connection.
Once up and running the ARC Welder app simplifies the entire process;
- Open ARC Welder
- Add .apk
- Set configuration values (layout, orientation, etc)
- Test
Google say developers should strive to ensure that an app works well for touch and non-touch Chromebooks, should ideally test on the Chrome OS Stable Channel and cautions that the plugin does not yet support all of Google Play Services yet.
ARC Welder allows .apk files to be quickly exported into a .zip file for easy submission to the Chrome Web Store.
Tuesday, June 13, 2017
Did Blizzard Get Hit By Their Own Banstick WoW Hacked
Did Blizzard Get Hit By Their Own Banstick WoW Hacked
Hey folks!
So the other day, I received an email from Trion, the owners of the MMO Rift. They haz been Haxxored. Since I have no real worry about my account there (nothing even closely resembling WoW by email or password combination) I could really give a rats ass. But....
(Tobold hit on the Rift hack on his site if you want more reading on it: Tobolds MMORPG Blog)
This morning, I open up twitter, and see that Blizzards forums have been down...for 6 hours...so far. Did they get sliced as well? Whaddabout our Authenticators, did that server get hit too?
My wonder is....are we in trouble? Are our accounts safe?
Better be safe than be sorry, so after changing my WoW password, and re-linking my Authenticator, I feel more in control of the situation. You can never be too careful, huh?
I am sure more updates to come. Who knows, maybe they are just going through Maintenance on...a Saturday? Or maybe they are giving us all Christmas in game pets....ITS A CONSPIRACY I TELLZ YOU!
I wonder if they did get hacked, would they admit it? Not likely....
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Saturday, May 27, 2017
DevOps people are worth their weight in platinum
DevOps people are worth their weight in platinum
One guy had an issue where if you loaded up a pallet full of shampoo, the database server would start having timeouts...
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1293849
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