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by haberman 5165 days ago
My reading of this is that the Chrome Web Store is where apps are listed and users authorize them, but not necessarily that the app has to run in a web browser. The user could authorize the app by "installing" it through the Chrome Web Store but download/use it from a totally different channel.

PS: I work at Google but don't have any inside info on this.
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TazeTSchnitzel 5165 days ago
Chrome Web Store is exclusively for web apps. It's essentially Chrome's and Chromebook's App Store.
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haberman 5165 days ago
I understand that. There's no way to have the web store install a native app.

But once you have "installed" the web app, how would the API server have any idea whether a Google Drive API request was coming from a web server, some JavaScript running in a web browser, an Android app, or a remote island in the Pacific that has no electricity via the "IP over Avian Carriers" protocol? It's just HTTP requests with some authorization headers that tie it to your app's identity.

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