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<p>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.<br>
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<p>As far as I can see from a short evaluation the pre-conditions
would be these two things:</p>
<p>1) Interaction with Sword Library. This would require creating
another wrapper library like node-sword-interface, this time based
on "<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://developer.chrome.com/native-client">Native Client</a>"
(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.<br>
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<p>2) I would need to bundle all npmjs-based dependencies into one
JS file, because <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://stackoverflow.com/a/43684769">Chrome Apps do not
work with npmjs dependencies easily</a>.<br>
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<p>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.<br>
<br>
Best regards,<br>
Tobias<br>
<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 3/17/20 3:48 AM, Troy A. Griffitts
wrote:<br>
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">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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