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HERE Core Container overview

HERE Core Container is a desktop runtime application environment that enables communication between all of your apps (web, legacy, third-party) for the enterprise desktop. It is built on top of Google Chromium and GitHub Electron and combines advanced interoperability, lightning-fast distribution, and robust security with an agile web development and deployment model.

Any web app that runs in Google Chrome can run on HERE Core Container unmodified and in a matter of seconds. With HERE Core, developers write 99% of their code with standard HTML5 and the JavaScript frameworks of their choice, including React and Angular. HERE Core APIs (usually <1% of code) enable windowing, interoperability and system access.

Major functionality of HERE Core Container includes the following:

  • The Platform API for creating and managing applications that can run multiple HERE apps concurrently, in side-by-side or tabbed views.

  • Interoperability APIs that enable HERE apps to coordinate and share data. The Interop API is the most full-featured and powerful option. We provide an FDC3 API implementation, for use cases that require compatibility with the FDC3 standard for financial applications.

  • Application API for customizing, starting, stopping, and managing applications in the HERE environment.

  • System API for accessing resources and information at the level of the operating-system or the HERE Runtime.