How to delete an unused/old Chrome app from dashboard

[Dave]

Hello,

Since we are limited in how many apps we can have in our dashboard, I think it would be good if we were able to delete older apps we no longer wish to publish. I know we can unpublish them, but then they still take up space that can be used for a working app.

If there is a way to delete an older/unwanted app, then please reply with a link to instructions.

Dave

[ram kumar]

Currently no way to delete.

https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/?fromgroups=#!searchin/chromium-apps/delete$20app$20joe/chromium-apps/JBvtOJy4AhU/VjGmY74A0OQJ

It would be nice to see the delete feature added to dashboard

[Dave]

Thanks for the link...

[Abraham Williams]

As I understand it only published apps count towards your limit.

Abraham
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Thanks for the link...

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[Igor Moiseev]

Hi, there is a hack that works like a charm: https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/d/msg/chromium-apps/Orx2vQD-PSk/rUxgyk2C1c0J

Hope it still works ;)

[Dave]

Great link. Thanks for posting.

[ram kumar]

Thanks Igor that works very well

[Joe Marini]

Just understand that when you do this there's no way to get the item ID back again, ever.

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[Igor Moiseev]

Sorry Joe for previous trolling, but this is the desired behavior. Yes, we need the permanent cancellation, this gives us a full control upon our creatures. 

Thank you.

[ram kumar]

Yes joe. we make sure before deleting.

we dont need the same ID.

[Joe Marini]

We've run into problems in the past when developers have deleted their apps but then tried to use the same IDs again. 

Perhaps we can find a way to better communicate the effects of deleting apps to developers - can one of you search to see if there's an existing bug for this on crbug.com and file one if there isn't?

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[Matt DeBoard]

Ping, this is still an issue and an incredibly annoying one at that. I don't want every single failed attempt at working on a hosted app, packaged app, extension to be cluttering up my dashboard. I also resent the cognitive overhead involved in having to invent totally unique names for them so I can differentiate in the clutter.

[Joe Marini]

I'm meeting with the store eng team next week to go over feedback. I will deliver this to them.

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[Matt DeBoard]

Great. Please also deliver to them my most heartfelt desire for the following three things:

1. Modify or move all documentation for deprecated features or that incorrectly use the terms "extension" and "app" interchangeably (e.g. http://developer.chrome.com/extensions/apps.html) in such a way that it is extremely obvious that it is deprecated. Huge banner, different URL (``/deprecated-docs/extensions/apps.html/``), whatever

2. Hacking a URL to look at the "apps" version of a page from an "extensions" version is good except when it's not. For example:

  - http://developer.chrome.com/extensions/manifest.html and http://developer.chrome.com/apps/manifest.html both display the relevant, correct information for each of apps and extensions

  - http://developer.chrome.com/extensions/background_pages.html and http://developer.chrome.com/apps/background_pages.html do not. Why does the latter even exist?

This is unbelievably inconsistent and confusing

3. An "offline" manifest-checker. Maybe built into Chrome. Right now the platform (Chrome browser, which is also the dev environment) is much more relaxed about standards for manifest.json than the intake mechanism (the dev dashboard). This inconsistency combined with the severe documentation issues in #1 and #2 has lead me and my team to waste weeks' worth of development hours only to find out way too late that we've built our app/extension wrong.

I'm a dev, I love you guys, I have mad respect, but, sincerely, these three issues have made me hate developing for Chrome.

[Joe Marini]

Loud and clear. Some of these we already know about - the doc issues are an unfortunate side effect of how they are implemented right now. We're working to fix those now.

[Scott Fujan]

1) Updating the documentation when things change would make sense as well. For example, http://developer.chrome.com/extensions/whats_new.html is stuck.

2) Clarity on when changes will move into stable/beta

3) There is no mention at http://developer.chrome.com/extensions/npapi.html that NPAPI has been deprecated.