Intent to Prototype: Sub apps

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Contact emails

vk...@google.com

Explainer

https://github.com/explainers-by-googlers/sub-apps

Specification

https://github.com/explainers-by-googlers/sub-apps/pull/2

Design docs

https://github.com/explainers-by-googlers/sub-apps

Summary

Sub Apps allow developers to create multiple apps each with distinct names, icons and OS Integrations under a single Isolated Web App (IWA) installation. Windows of sub apps appear on the shelf with their specific identity, distinct from the parent app. Sub Apps are deeply integrated with the OS and offer capabilities such as file type association. This enables a single software package to represent different, isolated functionalities to the user while maintaining a single, unified IWA install and update process.

Blink component

Content>WebApps

Web Feature ID

Missing feature

Motivation

Without this API developers are forced into splitting the application into separate ones which complicates distribution or bundle everything into a single huge application that can potentially confuse users.

Initial public proposal

https://github.com/WICG/proposals/issues/282

Goals for experimentation

None

Requires code in //chrome?

True

Tracking bug

https://buganizer.corp.google.com/issues/414729785

Launch bug

https://launch.corp.google.com/launch/4466158

Availability expectation

Feature is available only in Isolated Web Apps on desktop platforms. https://chromestatus.com/feature/5146307550248960

Adoption expectation

Expected to be used initially by a small number of developers inside Isolated Web Apps.

Adoption plan

Working directly with developers that are planning to rely on the API.

Estimated milestones

DevTrial on desktop

150

Link to entry on the Chrome Platform Status

https://chromestatus.com/feature/6260680824061952?gate=5183985916444672

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