Com Msg.need Chrome App Hot!

Your flashlight app doesn't need Chrome. But the banking app's "Verify Identity" screen? That suddenly does. Invisible chains link the simplest tasks to the largest browsers.

— short for "component message" or perhaps "communication message." A handshake between two parts of a system that should know each other intimately. An intent. A payload. A hope.

Android champions choice. Yet here, the choice not to have Chrome installed renders a whole class of actions impossible — not with a helpful dialog, but with a cryptic line of logcat debris.