Unframed Demo IWA

This is a demo IWA intended to exercise the unframed display mode feature.

Introduction

The unframed display mode feature for IWAs in ChromeOS makes it possible for apps to display windows without a window "frame" surrounding the app content, giving IWA developers full control of the content of app windows.

Here is what an example app window normally looks like:

And here is what the same app looks like when it is unframed:

Installing the demo

Pre-requisites

• You need a ChromeOS device.
• You need Chrome version 146.0.7648.0 or later.
• Navigate to chrome://flags.
• Enable the #enable-isolated-web-app-dev-mode feature flag to install IWAs.
• Enable the #enable-unframed-iwa feature flag.

Install via update manifest

• Navigate to chrome://web-app-internals
• Find "Install IWA from Update Manifest"
• Paste in the the addresss https://unframed-isolated.web.app/releases/update_manifest.json
• Click "fetch" and "install"