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So today, Google announced a desktop app launcher for its Google Drive service: http://googledrive.blogspot.ca/2014/11/launch-desktop-applications-from-google.html.

Any ideas on how they implemented this? I'd like to do the same for a personal project. I know there's a way in node-webkit to do something like this, but if this ever becomes a native capability within Chrome browser...

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  • possible duplicate of [Can a chrome application launch local program?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21661827/can-a-chrome-application-launch-local-program) – smorgan May 28 '15 at 04:40

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To quote the announcement:

To get started, install the latest version of the Drive app for Mac or PC (version 1.18) ...

They are using a native app (not a Chrome app) to provide the functionality. As such, they can do whatever they want.

You can replicate this with a Native Host + extension approach.

Xan
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