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Issue 2104373002: Introduce README file for chrome/android/webapk (Closed) Base URL: https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src.git@master
Patch Set: Introduce README file for chrome/android/webapk Created 4 years, 6 months ago
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Index: chrome/android/webapk/README
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+WebAPKs are a proposal to improve homescreen shortcuts by:
+- Giving them a spot in the app launcher
+- Enabling web pages to open a WebAPK when a user taps on a URL which belongs to
+ a WebAPK
+- Improving resource and permission attribution
+
+In short, they attempt to providing additional glue to give Progress Web Apps
+deeper integration into the Android OS, similar to native apps.
+
+The directory is broken down as follows:
+- shell_apk/ - a template APK which can be customized for a given domain based
+ on its Web App Manifest: https://www.w3.org/TR/appmanifest/
+- libs/client/ - a client library meant for a host browser to interact with
+ WebAPKs
+- libs/common/ - common library used by the WebAPK and host browser
+- libs/runtime_library/ - a library which can be dynamically loaded by a
+ ShellAPK. A host browser provides the library which the ShellAPK uses to
+ implement the majority of its functionaly. For chrome, this library is
+ packaged into Chrome's assets file and extracted as needed. This approach
+ ensures that the majority of the WebAPK logic is shared and can be updated
+ as often as the host browser, without the need for updating each individual
+ WebAPK.
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