/cog-chromium

Cog Chrome App - Fork with more info, changed colours, manifest update, and Chromium name :)

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COG - System Info Viewer App for Chromium

COG is a simple Chrome App that showcases the chrome.system.* APIs. It is a fork of https://github.com/beaufortfrancois/cog-chrome-app. See Patches/Changes below. You can get it here.

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Patches & Changes

  • "Chrome" changed to "Chromium".
  • Icon changed to new gear logo + more icon sizes.
  • Memory section now shows Used, Free, and Total.
  • Gear logo is now inside the app (click it to spin it!)
  • Various other logos.
  • Manifest updated to V3 with some extra things like offline enabled = true and minimum chromium version = 88.
  • Colours updated/changed.
  • Chromium version and about section link to chromium.org and here, respectively.
  • Spacing modified.
  • Themed Scrollbar added.
  • About section
  • Better section descriptions.
  • Warnings if an API is not available.

Installation

  • Check Developer Mode in chrome://extensions
  • Drag and Drop the COG.crx file into the window.
  • Run it.

Running the development version

Desktop

  • Check Developer Mode in chrome://extensions
  • Click "Load unpacked extension..." in chrome://extensions and select the src folder in the cog-chrome-app repository.
  • Run it.

Test mobile version

Android

  • Install the Chrome Apps on mobile requirements.
  • Create your project with cca create cog-mobile-chrome-app --link-to=path/to/cog-chromium/src/manifest.json
  • Plug in your Android device.
  • Go to Settings->Developer Options and enable USB debugging.
  • Run it with cca run android