As part of its initiative to bring Chrome packaged desktop apps to mobile platforms, Google is reportedly preparing a beta release of a toolkit that will help developers create native apps for mobile platforms like Apple’s iOS. Evidence of the beta was discovered by The Next Web in a GitHub repository called “Mobile Chrome Apps,” which is being headed up by Google software developer Michal Mocny.

According to the project’s description, Mobile Chrome Apps is a toolkit for porting Chrome Packaged Apps to Android and iOS hybrid web applications using Apache Cordova. Other operating