I have written a web app for DRM protected playback, using Shaka Player,
and I am wondering if I can have testers simply open it in the browser, without me having to package it,
and them having to install it.
My guess is that since the hosted app runs in the same chromium web engine the browser uses,
there is no difference apart from profile related stuff, local storage clearing, etc.
which are not important to me.
Am I wrong?
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I have built some extensions of Google Chrome. I have the CRX files and I kept them my local system which is MAC 10.13. I wish to install my custom build extensions through bash script, purpose is academic only. I have followed the instruction at https://developer.chrome.com/apps/external_extensions. But the extensions are not showing in chrome. Can anybody help?
UPDATE 1
I dont want to host my extensions to chrome web store. If required I can use my web-hosting to store the crx files.
Make sure Chrome is in Developer Mode if you are unable to host your CRX in the Chrome Web Store. Assuming your CRX follow's Google's policies, you might also consider hosting it in the Web Store, and making it private. The latter approach could make it easier to privately share the CRX with your academic peers.
I am developing an Ionic app.
It works both on Android and iOS.
I got a free trial period on a hosting site called Heroku, where I've put the content of the www folder of my project.
The website works but the interaction with the remote couchDB does not work, despite it works good on mobile phone.
Is there a reason?
Maybe Heroku doesn't support couchDB?
Thanks
I don't see a VM for Edge listed on http://dev.modern.ie/tools/vms/mac/
Is there currently a way to do this?
Browserstack has Edge available as one of its options. In addition, you can try out the remote.modern.ie to test this via a free cloud version of Windows 10
Link to all of this, and more resources on GitHub
Testing the application using RemoteIE & BrowserStack
There are several ways of testing websites, aside from the good old-fashioned way of using a device lab and physically looking at your site on multiple devices and in multiple browsers. Two of the more popular and easier ways to go about testing include modern.IE remoteIE and BrowserStack.
RemoteIE
RemoteIE is a free service offered by modern.IE that allows you to connect to a hosted version of the latest IE builds running in the cloud using a client. This client, called the Azure RemoteApp Client, is available for Mac OS X, iOS, Android and Windows OS devices, and includes simple installation and account set up steps. The available IE builds run on Windows 10 Technical Preview for Enterprise. In this preview version of the service, only public URLs and IP addresses can be accessed.
Other tools offered by modern.IE include:
Virtual Machines with versions of IE ranging from IE6 to IE11, that can be downloaded and managed in your own development environment.
Browser Screenshots of how your site looks across nine common browsers and devices.
Compatibility reports generated from analyzing your site while it runs to detect patterns of interactions known to cause issues in browsers.
Site scans for common coding problems in your website.
BrowserStack
RemoteIE has partnered with BrowserStack to provide interactive browser testing in the cloud, regardless of the platform, and within your own browser.
BrowserStack is a paid online service, but you can sign up for a free trial. With BrowserStack it is possible to test internal websites or local html designs using remote browsers after configuring for local testing, so the website does not have to be live to test it out. Signing up for the free trial gives you a 30-minute session to test the website in a broad range of platforms and browsers. The full list of browsers & mobile devices for live testing can be found here.
Running win10 IOT core on the raspberry pi 2 and I'm wondering if the following is possible:
1) have a headless app running that is called 'version checker'. in addition, have multiple other headless apps running.
2) if a new version of an app is available, it downloads the package
3) once new package is downloaded, it installs the app
If this is possible, where should I start?
If you are not against writing the app in HTML/JS, you could write it as a Hosted Web App.
It's really similar to a Chrome / FirefoxOS app, which caches your code on the device, and hits your site to see if there are any changes since it last loaded, and update itself if it does.
Here's a blog that I wrote a while back.
How would I develop apps if I had a Cloud Only PC?
I'm looking at the Acer-AC700-1099-Chromebook-Wi-Fi on Amazon.
The idea is kind of neat, and I can see this being the way more PCs are going to go. Nothing installed on your PC - you are basically running a "dumb terminal" that lives off an Internet connection.
So far, the biggest concern has been that apps like PhotoShop can not be run on them.
As programmers, most of us don't care about PhotoShop, but we need to compile our C#!
Does anyone have any information on whether some form of Cloud Compiling is in the works?
Maybe my employer would be able to purchase an X-License copy of Visual Studio that is installed on the server and I'd just log into that to develop all of my apps.
This is totally doable. I would suggest that you/your employer take a look at XenDesktop. This is technology that lets you run Windows Virtual Machines in your own private cloud. Then to access these machines you run a "thin client" which is basically like a Remote Desktop session. The thin client can run on a normal laptop, an iPad, and even Google ChromeOS. The basics of this technology are free, and not that hard to setup.
See these articles here which are Citrix announcing support for ChromeOS.
http://www.citrix.com/English/NE/news/news.asp?newsID=2311983
http://lazure2.wordpress.com/2011/05/12/chromebook-box-with-citrix-receiver-going-against-microsoft/
The coolest part about this, is you are using a Chromebook which is a cloud only laptop to access the public cloud AND your own private cloud. Pretty cloudy in here :)
Given that Visual Studio is Windows-only, you have to run Windows somewhere - either on your local PC (not an option with Chrome) or on some remote server (and access it via some web-based RDP client IF such beast exists and works with Chrome). I.e. the question can be split in two - where to get the powerful server system to run VS on it (and don't forget that compilation is resource-consuming, so the server system is to be very powerful if several users work on it in parallel), and how to connect to remote Windows system using Chrome OS. Both of those questions are offtopic here ;).