Google Chrome Apps support for Android/iOS... SOON

http://thenextweb.com/google/2013/12/03/google-building-chrome-apps-support-android-ios-beta-release-coming-soon-january-2014/

Does that mean that Google is basically working on their "official" wrapper for Chrome Apps that allows them to run on Android and iOS? Would C2 benefit from exporting a project as a Chrome App, then wrapping it with Google's upcoming toolkit for Android/iOS?

This is exciting!

hmm. Well hopefully there work will be 100% rather than XDK and others which are focused only the DOM for applications.

However it's still probably about 1 year away before it's solid enough. This also seems to be a move on Google's part more to disturb Intel's efforts. I guess we will see.

It looks like a series of extensions to PhoneGap. So I don't think this will magically fix PhoneGap's performance problems, unless they really are shipping a whole version of Chromium with it.

Still I find it interesting that google is focusing on web apps for android and ios maybe in time it will get better and perfomance will improve.

I've read about this on engadget.

Also Chrome DevTools has been updated with more tools for mobile development:

http://www.engadget.com/2013/12/03/chrome-devtools-now-lets-you-see-how-websites-behave-on-mobile

Ashley I was noticing the use of Apache Cordova. However using PhoneGap I didn't need NodJS before so who knows how this will turn out. I imagine that Google would invest more into better design.