How to launch Chrome packaged app by clicking on a button in a html page

Question

I have created a Chrome packaged app and when i execute the following line in command prompt, it launches that packaged app:

"C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Google\\Chrome\\Application\\chrome.exe" --load-and-launch-app="chrome-app-path-goes-here"

How can I launch this Chrome app by clicking on a button in a html page? Any javascript or jQuery way of doing this?

Answer 1

Yes, it's possible.

Requirements:

• specifically whitelisting the domain in the manifest
• knowing the app's ID (you can pin it for development )
• having the app already installed.

Take a look at externally_connectable : docs , example .

What you can do is to send a message to the app, which will wake up its Event page.
From there, you can open the app's window as usual.