title: Do mobile chrome apps run in chrome?
body: <p>To put it bluntly, do <a href="https://github.com/MobileChromeApps/mobile-chrome-apps/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Mobile Chrome Apps</a> have anything to do with chrome at all? After all, it seems reasonable to expect that as it has <em>Chrome</em> in the name. This question stems from the fact that as I was porting my 'chrome based mobile app' (which does not run in the 'Browser'), I got a huge string of weird errors and for the first couple of hours I had no idea what was happening.</p>
  <p><strong>NOTE:</strong> This question is <strong>out of date</strong>, Mobile Chrome apps now works differently as outlined in the edit section of the main answer:</p>
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  <p>By default, Chrome Apps for Mobile leverage an embeddable Chromium WebView provided by the Crosswalk project by default, which has both advantages and some tradeoffs.</p>
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