[sword-devel] Chromebooks

[Tobias Klein]

I could look into turning Ezra Project into a Chrome App. The frontend 
is already HTML/CSS + JavaScript which is the technology powering Chrome 
Apps. And it's already made for desktop use.

As far as I can see from a short evaluation the pre-conditions would be 
these two things:

1) Interaction with Sword Library. This would require creating another 
wrapper library like node-sword-interface, this time based on "Native 
Client <https://developer.chrome.com/native-client>" (a sandbox for 
running compiled C/C++ in the Chrome browser). I could probably do this 
while sharing lots of the node-sword-interface code, to keep the 
interface compatibility with Ezra Project.

2) I would need to bundle all npmjs-based dependencies into one JS file, 
because Chrome Apps do not work with npmjs dependencies easily 
<https://stackoverflow.com/a/43684769>.

Both is possible and doesn't sound too hard. And it could probably be 
done while sharing most of the frontend code with Ezra Project. I'll 
look into this when I find some time.

Best regards,
Tobias

On 3/17/20 3:48 AM, Troy A. Griffitts wrote:
> We just received a 1 star review for Bishop from a Chromebook user.
>
> I didn't know Chromebook users could run Android applications
> officially.  I had heard it was experimental at one point but didn't
> know it ever reached production.
>
> Bishop (and I am guessing a ton of other Android apps) aren't geared
> toward devices with keyboards (e.g., we have a grid book and chapter
> selector for easy Bible navigation from a small touch screen; that's not
> how I would want to navigate if I had a keyboard).
>
> Do we have any apps specifically targeting Chromebooks?  Do they run
> Linux apps?
>
> May everyone stay COVID-19-free,
>
> Troy
>
>
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