Integrating Progressive Web Apps deeply into Android

In 2015, we added a new feature to Chrome for Android that allows developers to prompt users to add their site to the Home screen for fast and convenient access. That feature uses an Android shortcut, which means that web apps don’t show up throughout Android in the...

Open-sourcing Chrome on iOS!

Historically, the code for Chrome for iOS was kept separate from the rest of the Chromium project due to the additional complexity required for the platform. After years of careful refactoring, all of this code is rejoining Chromium and being moved into the...

Performance improvements in Chrome’s rendering pipeline

Speed is one of Chrome’s four core principles, enabling web developers to provide users with faster, more engaging web experiences. While many components in the browser contribute to overall speed, the rendering pipeline is primarily responsible for ensuring websites...

Reload, reloaded: faster and leaner page reloads

Reload has long been a staple feature of web browsers and kept its original behavior throughout the years, despite the changing landscape of web platform innovations, connectivity, and content consumption patterns. When reloading a page, browsers will check with the...

Introducing the WebVR API in Chrome for Android

Virtual Reality (VR) is rapidly growing in popularity, and now it’s coming to the web. The power of the web is that it can allow VR to work across browsers and hardware, accessible via a single click. This enables VR developers to broadly reach users across...
Warren Edmond