According to the latest report, the Google Chrome App function will be disabled in June 2022, has a full transformation to a web-based PWA application. In addition to Google’s own Gmail, Google Drive, etc., these applications also include a large number of third-party apps, mini-games, etc.
Moreover, starting in 2020 Google will gradually reduce the use of traditional technology Chrome App, these applications are based on HTML5, CSS JavaScript. Google previously decided to discontinue this feature in June 2020, but it was later postponed to 2022.
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However, Google said that for corporate and educational users, the feature suspension time will be postponed to 2025. Google previously strongly recommended developers to upgrade the traditional Chrome App to PWA applications as soon as possible.
The advantage of this is that the PWA application supports many of the latest APIs, has better reliability, and is convenient for users to use anytime, anywhere. At present, some PWA applications with advanced functions such as Adobe Spark, Zoom, and other productivity software have appeared. Google decided to finally delete the old NaCl, PNaCl, PPAPI, and other APIs in Chrome OS.
