Native Messaging is the method, implemented into browsers, to allow extensions to talk to native applications (like the VDH coapp). From Chrome developer documentation, https://developer.chrome.com/docs/apps/nativeMessaging/ , there is nothing that tells where to put the manifest files. It's only for Windows, Mac and Linux. My understanding is that extensions running on Chrome/Android are not (yet?) able to use Native Messaging, making VDH only able to perform trivial downloads like a bunch of other extensions.
Please, reopen this issue if you think otherwise (and have some details i missed).
I just gave it another look.
Native Messaging is the method, implemented into browsers, to allow extensions to talk to native applications (like the VDH coapp). From Chrome developer documentation, https://developer.chrome.com/docs/apps/nativeMessaging/ , there is nothing that tells where to put the manifest files. It's only for Windows, Mac and Linux. My understanding is that extensions running on Chrome/Android are not (yet?) able to use Native Messaging, making VDH only able to perform trivial downloads like a bunch of other extensions.
Please, reopen this issue if you think otherwise (and have some details i missed).