Graphical Analysis, Instrumental Analysis, Spectral Analysis, and Vernier Video Analysis will continue to be available for ChromeOS.
Google has announced that they will cease support for Chrome Packaged Apps (or Chrome Apps) on the ChromeOS (Chromebook) platform. The date for this support ending has been modified several times by Google, so their plans may again change. Most recently, Google has said that Chrome Apps will be supported through January 2025. Vernier plans to continue supporting and updating Chrome Apps for the meantime, while transitioning to their replacements.
Google’s recommended replacement for a Chrome App is called a Progressive Web App (PWA). This change will affect the following Vernier apps:
The current versions (and anticipated updates for now) of these apps are Chrome Packaged Apps, and thus will cease working when Google drops support. To continue to provide data collection support on Chromebooks, we are transitioning our apps for Chromebooks to the Progressive Web App format before Google’s end of support for packaged apps. There will be a time when both app types will be available simultaneously.
In anticipation of this change, Vernier introduced our first Progressive Web App in 2020, called Vernier Video Analysis. Graphical Analysis is also available as a PWA. Spectral Analysis and Instrumental Analysis will follow later in 2024.
PWAs are launched by pointing your Chrome web browser to a specific URL. For example, Vernier Video Analysis is reached at https://videoanalysis.app, and Graphical Analysis is reached at https://graphicalanalysis.app . PWAs need not be installed in the manner of a Chrome Packaged App, but are instead run entirely within the browser. PWAs can be installed for simpler access if desired.
Even though the app is delivered from a domain, Vernier PWAs run locally, and no user information is uploaded to Vernier servers. This means that once activated, Vernier apps can be used while your Chromebook is offline.
Use of Vernier PWAs require that IT administrators allow access to the .app domain.
Local Data Sharing is not available in the Progressive Web App version of Graphical Analysis
What domains need to be allow-listed for Graphical Analysis, Spectral Analysis, and Vernier Video Analysis?
What is the difference between the Progressive Web App and Chrome Packaged App versions of Graphical Analysis and other Vernier apps?
Graphical Analysis Troubleshooting and FAQs
How to deliver Progressive Web Apps to managed ChromeOS devices