Chromium Blog

New Text-to-Speech API for Chrome extensions

Tuesday, October 18, 2011

packaged appchrome.tts.speak('Hello, world!');
chrome.tts.speak('Can you understand me now?', {rate: 0.6});
TTS API docssamples pageChromeVoxTTS DemoTalking Alarm ClockSpeakItTTS Engine APIchrome.tts.speakHTML5 AudioWeb Audio APINative ClientLois TTS - US EnglishFlite SLT Female TTS - US English#chromettsChromium-extensionsPosted by Dominic Mazzoni, Software Engineer

Heading in the right direction with WebGL

Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Editor's note: The Chromium WebGL team worked closely with the Maps team to help make MapsGL a reality. We invited a member of the Maps team to talk about their experience with MapsGL in the hope that it would help inform others who are interested in deploying a large scale WebGL app.first releasedMapsGLWebGLWebGL documentationPosted by Jennifer Maurer, Software Engineer on the MapsGL team

Dart: A language for structured web programming

Monday, October 10, 2011

Cross-posted on the Google Code BlogDartCreate a structured yet flexible language for web programming.Make Dart feel familiar and natural to programmers and thus easy to learn.Ensure that Dart delivers high performance on all modern web browsers and environments ranging from small handheld devices to server-side execution.virtual machinecompilerdartlang.orgPosted by Lars Bak, Software Engineer

New developer tools experimental APIs for Chrome extensions

Monday, October 3, 2011

"name": ...

"minimum_chrome_version": "14.0",

"devtools_page": "devtools.html",

"permissions": [ "experimental" ... ],

...

}

The developer tools extension pages get access to the chrome.experimental.devtools.* APIs which are described further in our docs. Be sure to check out the sample extensions, which include extensions for jQuery and FirePHP users and a simple audit extension that finds broken links.

For a richer example, you can also check out Page Speed for Chromium, which uses the extensions API to provide Page Speed suggestions right in the Chrome Devtools UI.

We’re looking forward to seeing your feedback on the APIs and, of course, cool extensions coming to life!

Posted by Andrey Kosyakov, Software Engineer

Chrome Developer Tools

your feedback

Use the dev channel of Chrome as the APIs are still under development;

Enable experimental extension APIs using the chrome://flags page;

List experimental in the permissions list of your extension;

Add a devtools_page field to your extension’s manifest, e.g:

{ "name": ... "minimum_chrome_version": "14.0", "devtools_page": "devtools.html", "permissions": [ "experimental" ... ], ... }docssample extensionsPage Speed for ChromiumPosted by Andrey Kosyakov, Software Engineer

International Success with the Chrome Web Store

Monday, September 26, 2011

expanded the reach20 countriesIn-App Payments APIGraphicly

Audiotool is an online music production app that was built by a team of German developers. They saw the Chrome Web Store as a way to present their app to an international audience. Audiotool’s traffic increased by 20% after launching in the store, and this motivated the team to release another app in the store.

Psykopaint is the brainchild of French developer Mathieu Gosselin. The Chrome Web Store provided Mathieu an opportunity to get his photo painting app noticed outside of France. Traffic to Psykopaint has jumped by 700% since it launched in the store and Mathieu has found that Chrome Web Store users tend to be more engaged than other users.

Finally, Nulab, a Japanese company, launched its online diagramming app, Cacoo, in the store to expand its user base outside Japan. In just a few months after Cacoo was released in multiple languages in the Chrome Web Store, the app already accounts for 20% of Cacoo’s user base.

case studiescode.google.com/chrome/webstorePosted by Alexandra Levich, Product Manager

Google @ GDC Online Oct. 10th-12th

Wednesday, August 31, 2011

In addition to the Developer Day, we will also have a booth on the Expo floor on Oct. 11th-12th where we’ll have representatives from the Chrome Web Store, Native Client, WebGL, App Engine, Google+, In-App Payments, Google TV, and AdSense/AdMob demoing technologies and platforms for game developers. Come by booth 503 to try out Google products and ask questions, or hang out in our Google TV lounge.

For more information on our presence at GDC Online, including session and speaker details, please visit http://www.google.com/events/gdc/2011. Hope to see you in Austin!

Not able to attend GDC? Check out Google Game Developer Central to get an overview of Google products and services that are particularly relevant to game developers.

Posted by Amy Walgenbach, Developer Marketing

Cross posted at the Google Code blog Game Developers ConferenceDeveloper Dayengineers and developer advocates

Chrome Web StoreNative ClientApp EngineIn-App PaymentsGoogle TVAdSenseAdMobGDC Onlinehttp://www.google.com/events/gdc/2011Google Game Developer CentralPosted by Amy Walgenbach, Developer Marketing

Non-Admin Chrome Frame Reaches Stable Channel

Tuesday, August 30, 2011

introducedheredownload pageGoogle groupissue trackerPosted by Greg Thompson, Software Engineer