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If it requires Chrome, why not simply develop a Chrome app?

"A Google Chrome App is a web application that runs on the Google Chrome web browser. Chrome apps can be obtained from the Chrome Web Store where apps, extensions, and themes can be installed or bought."

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Chrome Apps are deprecated [1] for all platforms except Chrome OS.

[1] https://blog.chromium.org/2016/08/from-chrome-apps-to-web.ht...

You can use "add to desktop" which also work on Android and iPhone, it will make the browser (chrome/safari) run "chrome-less" eg. without url bar and menu.

Yes, they were replaced by PWAs, which is the proper way of doing apps for devs that don't want to touch OS APIs.

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