Chrome 42 beta brings push notifications, app install banners and more for developers

ZuGgY · 2015-03-13T01:31:23+00:00

e web is quickly becoming as powerful as native apps and Chrome 42 beta brings a number of huge features for developers to Android devices. add to home screen 9f848df296e9e17100d68ef9aea43d69 Chrome 42 beta brings push notifications, app install banners and more for developersFirst, it brings a new “App Install Banner” that allows websites to show a prompt to users that asks if they want to add your site to their home screen. The idea is that Google wants to encourage users to start pinning the sites they frequent to their home screen, just like apps. App Install Banners are fairly straightforward to implement for developers. Sites wanting to use the feature must meet eligibility criteria, however, so that users get an acceptable experience when using the new feature. Chrome 42 also brings push notifications to the web, thanks to a new Push API that allows them to send a system notification. Your website can now send a full notification, even if Chrome isn’t open. Developers will need

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Mar 14, 2015 08:17 AM

I like a lot of the ideas they're putting forward but I share your concern about how much resources it'll consume.

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