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codeman
codeman

Reputation: 371

Is there a way to launch chrome packaged app from chrome extension

I'm developing a chrome packaged app and chrome extension, both of them communicate with one another, and i want to lunch my packaged app from a chrome extension, is there any way to do it?

Note: I've tried using the launchApp method of chrome management api, but for some unknown reason the chrome.management is undefined in my chrome extension JS code, although i have specified management permission in my manifest file like so:

"permissions": ["management"]

Does anyone have a idea what is the problem, or there are any other way i can do it ?

Thanks for help:)

Upvotes: 1

Views: 267

Answers (1)

Xan
Xan

Reputation: 77482

There are 2 possible reasons for not being able to use chrome.management.

  1. You have not reloaded your extension properly

  2. You are trying to call this from a content script; you can't do that, since a content script has very restricted access to Chrome API. You need to message a background page to do this for you.

That said, there is a better way to do it if you write both your extension and your app. "management" permission is a big hammer and will generate a warning to the user on installation.

Instead, you can send a cross-extension message to your app. It will wake it up and you can launch your main window from there. See this answer for details.

Upvotes: 2

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