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  1. @jsanti jsanti created this gist Feb 20, 2014.
    57 changes: 57 additions & 0 deletions makechromeapp.sh
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    #!/bin/sh

    echo "What should the Application be called (no spaces allowed e.g. GCal)?"
    read inputline
    name=$inputline

    echo "What is the url (e.g. https://www.google.com/calendar/render)?"
    read inputline
    url=$inputline

    echo "What is the full path to the icon (e.g. /Users/username/Desktop/icon.png)?"
    read inputline
    icon=$inputline




    chromePath="/Applications/Google\ Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google\ Chrome"
    appRoot="/Applications"



    # various paths used when creating the app
    resourcePath="$appRoot/$name.app/Contents/Resources"
    execPath="$appRoot/$name.app/Contents/MacOS"
    profilePath="$appRoot/$name.app/Contents/Profile"
    plistPath="$appRoot/$name.app/Contents/Info.plist"

    # make the directories
    mkdir -p $resourcePath $execPath $profilePath

    # convert the icon and copy into Resources
    if [ -f $icon ] ; then
    sips -s format tiff $icon --out $resourcePath/icon.tiff --resampleHeightWidth 128 128 >& /dev/null
    tiff2icns -noLarge $resourcePath/icon.tiff >& /dev/null
    fi

    # create the executable
    cat >$execPath/$name <<EOF
    #!/bin/sh
    exec $chromePath --app="$url" --user-data-dir="$profilePath" "\$@"
    EOF
    chmod +x $execPath/$name

    # create the Info.plist
    cat > $plistPath <<EOF
    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
    <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" “http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd”>
    <plist version=”1.0″>
    <dict>
    <key>CFBundleExecutable</key>
    <string>$name</string>
    <key>CFBundleIconFile</key>
    <string>icon</string>
    </dict>
    </plist>
    EOF