Google Chrome App will be discontinued in June 2022 and transformed into PWA application

On October 15, according to foreign media 9to5Google, the Chrome App function of Google Chrome OS will be discontinued in June 2022, and will be fully transformed into web-based PWA applications. In addition to Google's own Gmail, Google Drive, etc., these applications also include a large number of third-party apps, small games, etc.

Since 2020, Google has gradually reduced the use of traditional technology Chrome Apps, which are built on HTML5, CSS and JavaScript. Google previously decided to stop the feature in June 2020, but later postponed it to 2022. However, Google said that for enterprise and education users, the feature will be deactivated until 2025.

Google previously strongly recommended that developers upgrade traditional Chrome Apps to PWA applications as soon as possible. The advantage of doing so is that PWA applications support many of the latest APIs, have better reliability, and are convenient for users to use anytime, anywhere. At present, some PWA applications with advanced functions such as Adobe Spark, Zoom and other productivity software have appeared. Google decided to eventually delete the old NaCl, PNaCl, PPAPI and other APIs in Chrome OS.