Google Chat Tauri

Run Google Chat as a "real" application with Tauri

Download (Linux, Windows, macOS):

https://github.com/ThatOneCalculator/google-chat-tauri/releases/latest

AUR package (Arch Linux)

yay -S google-chat-tauri-bin

Tech stack:

Obligatory screenshot:

Pros:

• Not Electron
• Relatively small, both in file size (17MB binary and 488KB saved cache on Linux) and memory usage (~800-1000MB average with a space open)
• Notifications

Cons:

• No support for third party auth

Plans:

• Linux, macOS, and Windows builds
  • AUR package
  • Flathub
• System tray
  • Add options
  • Reactive for notifications
  • Fix monochrome on non-macOS
• Custom CSS & JS
• Custom settings
  • Config file
  • Possibly injecting custom settings into web UI (low priority)

Non-plans:

• Adding features far outside of my use case or a "reasonable" use case
• Turning this into a "big project" (it doesn't need to be)
• Mobile builds

Credits:

• https://github.com/squalou/google-chat-linux/ - Inspiration
• create-tauri-app - Scaffolding template