google-chrome-app

In a Google Chrome application is it possible to access bundled data files from within the background.js script? E.g. if I had a file called data.json that I include with the app, is there a JavaScript API that I could use in the background.js script to get at the files contents? With the example bundle directory structure: /app/manfifest.json /app/backround.js /app/data.json I want to do something like: chrome.app.runtime.onLaunched.addListener(function() { data = unknown.api.loadFileSync("data.json"); // do stuff with data // ... }); Background scripts can access resources using XHR . To get

I'm trying to create a Chrome package App with an icon in the system menu bar as explain here : https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QhhfR33Y28Yqnnoa_Sl3fnZK_mKtwt4dZe6kNyJ_MjU/edit , The Google Hangout App can implement this feature (it's not exactly the same behavior) but I don't find any good documentation to do the same. In the manifest page of Google Packaged App, we can see the field "system_indicator". Is it what I'm looking for ? When I try to set this field to an url of an icon, Chrome return me this error : 'system_indicator' requires Google Chrome dev channel or newer, but this is

I have a basic Chrome App that I'm building that constructs strings like this: "1 + 4 - 3 + -2" Seeing as you can't use eval() in Chrome Apps, how can I get the answer to a string like so? eg. If this was just a normal webpage I would use something like this: var question = { text: "1 + 4 - 3 + -2", answer: eval(this.text) } Is there any possible way of replacing eval() with something else to answer a string like question.text ? Try modifying string to "+1 +4 -3 -2" utilizing String.prototype.split() , Array.prototype.reduce() , Number() var question = { text: "+1 +4 -3 -2", answer: function()