How do I publish a app in the chrome web store? - chrome-web-store

Edit: There's no workaround.
(Sorry if this is a duplicate, I didn't find anything like this, and also sorry if this is a dumb question)
I've been trying to publish a app to the chrome web store, so I paid US$5 to create a account, set it up, set up the extension, saved as draft, and then clicked 'Why can I not publish?', and then I saw "The chrome web store does not allow new apps.", I was thinking, "What? How is there all these apps in the chrome web store?" and I'm still thinking. Does somebody understand how to publish one? or can you not anymore?

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Bot Icon Not Updating

I've updated the icon for my bot in the Azure portal about 35 hours ago, but it's still showing the old one for new messages sent from the bot. Surely it should have changed by now? Is there any issue with this currently?
It's correct in the Azure portal in the "Test in Web Chat", but Teams is still showing the old icon, even for new messages.
Update:
It's been a few days now, and the image finally changed, but now it's totally corrupted. Is there a way to see what's wrong with my PNG? Is there an issue with the bot framework/Teams of some sort? See images below:
Error:
Original Icon (I don't know if SO changes the file in any way, but presumably not)
Update: I've now modified my bot in the Azure portal to use the exact same icon as another bot which is working fine, and it's still broken, so I'm thinking there is an issue with the bot framework/Teams in some way at the moment.
What I've encountered from experience is that when updating the bot's info in "Bot App Registration" such as icon and display name.
You can either wait a couple days and see if it fixes itself.
I've consistently been able to get it to update sooner by logging in and out of Teams as well as closing it.
I have a feeling that it's related to the cache since Teams is built with Electron. Some other post mentioned this and there's no "official" surefire way to do this. Playing with the manifest also does not seem to affect it to update sooner.
TL;DR
Log in and out of Teams, close it. If using web version, clear the cache. Log back in.
Good luck!
Try reinstalling the application on Teams, sometimes it takes time.

Google Apps Marketplace icon missing from App Launcher

We have developed a Google Apps Marketplace app and recently received reports from our users, that the App Launcher ("grid") wouldn't show our app's icon anymore.
This is a screenshot how it looks for my personal Google Apps account when I'm on www.google.com:
And this is a screenshot from my account when I'm on admin.google.com/AdminHome:
As you can see, only when I'm on the Google Apps account page, I can see icons of Marketplace apps. But it used to show up anywhere, also on www.google.com.
So Google must have changed something. The question is: can we get it back to the old behaviour?
PS: I know that it's just a link and one could simply bookmark it, but some of our customers are not really 'tech-savvy' and believe our app is 'gone completely' now. This is causing confusion everywhere.

How to create a desktop notifications for your web application?

I've tried searching and surprisingly I couldn't find anything on this. I have seen a few web apps that have desktop applications. For instance in gmail you can go into the settings and enable desktop notifications and get an alert even if you don't have the browser open at all. Also, there is an app called "slack" that I have been playing around with and I somehow got desktop notifications enabled. Also, google hangouts gives me notifications every once in a while. I don't know if this is a google chrome thing, or if it is a mac specific thing. Does anyone have any idea how these apps are posting these notifications?
Is it a browser specific thing? A platform specific thing? Did I download some type of desktop app that I have forgotten about that is enabling these apps to do this? Has anyone else created a desktop alert for their web app and how did you do it?
A similar question asked -
Chrome Desktop Notification.
From a front-end standpoint, there is EventSource for this, though you could also use websockets or polling (checking every few minutes/seconds).
Event Source and Server-Sent Events.

Cannot submit app to the google app marketplace

I created an chrome web store entry here:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/forum/knpdbggaikbgjbgihfgefcjdabkhfgbp
And filled out the form for submission for google app marketplace:
https://docs.google.com/a/nimbusbase.com/forms/d/14QOb8PbSLKDgwIp8Zv-luoAAVurPXUqtzL0Hgikp3rk/viewform
This was over 1.5 month ago. Since then, I have not had any word about my app rejection or seen it in the google app marketplace.
I'm not sure what the process for app review is. Does no word ever back mean your app is rejected?
Typically if you don't hear anything back from us that is a good thing! However, in your case, it appears that you have not set up your manifest file correctly. You have failed to include the DOMAIN_INSTALLABLE container. Take a look at the documentation at:
https://developers.google.com/apps-marketplace
You'll find an example manifest file that you can model yours after.
Since the manifest file was never set up correctly, the application did not enter our review queue which is why you never heard anything about it.

Going to app using more menu from google no longer working for old marketplace app

We have an application listed in the old google apps marketplace and when our customers try to go to our app using the 'More' menu in google (nine dots icon), then they now get a 400 Bad Request during the redirection process. This was working until recently and nothing has changed on our end.
I take it that going to an app from more menu is still suppose to work for apps on the old google apps marketplace. Can some google person take a look and see why it is not working any more?
When I click on our application in the more menu we are taken to an url like this (I've changes some of the actual values in the url below to post here for security reasons) and get 400 Bad Request:
https://apis.google.com/additnow/l?applicationid=xxx&__ls=ogb&__lu=https%3A%2F%2Fusqa.blah.us%2Fblah-usqa%2Fpages%2FgoogleAppsMarketplace%2FgoogleAppsNavLink.html%3Ffrom%3Dgoogle%26domain%3Dblahblah.com&token=yyy
Regards,
LT
This issue should be fixed now. Let us know on this forum if this is still an issue.
Apoorv - Product Manager Google Apps marketplace.

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