Chrome World Wide Maze Turns Any Website Into 3D Game Synced To Your Phone

by Mike Stenger on Mar 21st 2013, 12:00pm
tagged Chrome Game, google chrome

Chrome World Wide Maze

Google has released a new experiment called Chrome World Wide Maze which turns any website into a 3D marble maze game. To get started, you’ll need Chrome on your phone (Android 4.0+ required) and sync it to Chrome on your desktop. Once synced, you can choose any website to “play” on. After you’ve picked a website, simply use your phone to control the ball and reach the goal. Chrome World Wide Maze utilizes your phone’s gyroscope to guide the ball and if you don’t want to use your phone, you can always just play on your desktop. Check out the video below to see the game in action.

Source: Chrome World Wide Maze

Chrome for Android To Lose Beta Label In A Matter Of Weeks

by Ed Caggiani on Apr 25th 2012, 2:56am
tagged Beta, browser, Chrome, Chrome for Android, google chrome

Google Chrome for Android Beta has been out for only a couple of months but has already proven to be a very capable browser. Recent updates have added the ability to view the desktop versions of web sites as well as adding bookmarks to the browser’s home tab, not to mention the usual round of bug squashing. Senior Vice President of Chrome and Apps Sundar Pichai had the following to say in an interview.

“We launched beta 2. We addressed a few things. Mainly right now, I’m driven by bug quality and stability. We are triaging, tracking, and trying to make it very stable. It is in a matter of weeks.“

Chrome for Android is only available for devices running Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, a relative rarity in the Android ecosystem, but it has gotten very high marks by users of the platform. Check out our own review of the browser.

source: cnet

Chrome For Android Beta Updated, Allows Custom ROMs Again

by Ed Caggiani on Mar 8th 2012, 12:08am
tagged Chrome for Android, google chrome, update

Google upgraded Chrome for Android Beta to version 0.16.4301.233 today, and those of you with custom ROMs can rejoice. A previous update in February broke Chrome for many custom ICS ROMs, but this update apparently fixes that incompatibility. Much better to get an official fix than to have to do a manual workaround.

Though there’s no official changelog yet, Google did post the following on their Google Chrome Releases Blog:

Primarily focused on bug fixes, this update addresses issues in the compatibility check which prevented Chrome from starting up on some versions of Android 4.0, Ice Cream Sandwich.

Google also listed some known issues, most notably the lack of a way to toggle between mobile and desktop user agents, and YouTube links not prompting for which application to use.

It’s good to see Chrome getting better and better with regular updates, though I do wish it supported Flash for completeness. Download link and QR code after the break.

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Google Chrome Gearing Up To Launch On Android

by Harold Williams on Oct 2nd 2011, 10:40am
tagged chrome on android, google chrome

The first thing I asked myself when I started with Android was where is Chrome? I’m sure plenty of you asked yourselves the same question, or like me, just shrugged it off assuming the underlying core of the stock browser really was Chrome. The truth of the matter was Android and Chrome were separate teams entirely with really no interaction between the two. It seems Google now has a build target revision up meaning an actual Chrome browser for Android should be right around the corner. There’s mention on the Chromium revision log that Chrome for Android will include a lot of the features that you’re accustomed to on the desktop version. It will also have support for the open source Skia 2D graphics library. It’s unknown exactly how Google plans to position Chrome for Android and I wonder to what extent, if any, they will allow the desktop version to communicate with the mobile and if Chrome extensions will exist on mobile. Maybe the Nexus Prime will give us a taste of Chrome with ICS at the Unpacked event in Oct. Wishful thinking I know, but in either case we should be seeing some Chrome on Android love very soon. Hit us up with your thoughts right down there in the comments. How do you think Google will implement Chrome to Android and will it crush the current stock browser?

[via androidandme]

Samsung Fascinate gets Froyo the XDA developers way

by Steve Ginter on Feb 2nd 2011, 6:04pm
tagged dl30, dl30 rom, Fascinate, froyo, google chrome, Samsung Fascinate, XDA, xda-developers, xdeveloper

It’s Unofficial – the Samsung Fascinate is finally running Froyo, albeit from the bright minds over at XDA-Developers. User “punk.kaos” managed to compile together the latest leaked Froyo ROM (DL30) for the Fascinate and has it available for download. It’s pre-rooted, and has all the normal Verizon/Samsung bloatware included so you can get the full experience of removing it as soon as the system loads!

Keep in mind that installing your own ROM can brick your phone if done improperly, so tinker at your own risk – especially since this dev is offering absolutely no support (or even requests for that matter) – so mod with caution! Head on over to the xda-developers forum to grab it and let us know how it works out for you in the comments!

[via xda-developers forum]

Google Chrome Coming to Android

by Chris Moor on Sep 3rd 2008, 5:35pm
tagged google chrome

Chrome Android In a recent interview, Google co-founder Sergey Brin spoke about the relationship between the Android platform and the newly launched Google browser Chrome.

Brin mentions that although the two projects were developed seperately, now that they are public and nearing their first final releases that is now set to change.

The Android browser will most likely incorporate much of Chrome’s inner workings:

“Probably a subsequent version of Android is going to pick up a lot of the Chrome stack”

With Brin going on to mention the new mobile browser will adopt it’s own name:

“My guess is we’ll have ‘Chrome-like’ or something similar”

[via Cnet]