HERE Core

HERE Core

We recently rebranded from OpenFin to HERE. As part of this transformation, OpenFin Workspace and OpenFin Container have been unified under our new product name: HERE Core. While our name has changed, our mission remains the same — to make digital work secure, frictionless and delightfully productive, wherever you are.

Platform Development Made Easy

Built on Google Chromium and Electron, HERE Core provides a robust foundation to accelerate your platform development.

Documentation

Browser

Flexible windows

The Browser component enables multiple web apps to be arranged into complex layouts with minimal effort. The component makes it easy to save-and-restore windows and layouts so users can pick up right where they left off. Browser windows include an icon tray in the title bar, a download shelf, a global menu as well as menus at the Page and View levels. Developers have flexibility to configure and customize the icons, menus and behaviors. Note: To build your own fully customized windows, you can use the Platform API.

Context Sharing

Interop and FDC3 APIs

HERE Core includes a client-side message bus with Interop and FDC3 APIs that enables context sharing and secure communication of workflow instructions (“intents”) between apps. As the Platform Owner, developers can also customize the InteropBroker for their platform to allow / disallow connections or override default behaviors.

SuperSearch

Find what you need

The Home dialog streamlines the search experience across different apps, data sources and AI chatbots. The component enables concurrent delegation to multiple search providers and the display of rich actionable results to end users with filtering options. Developers can define custom commands and also customize result preview cards and filter tags.

Notification Center

Stay in sync without the noise

Notification Center provides critical features not available in Windows and Mac notification centers with capabilities far more powerful than standard web notifications. Search, sort, group, filter, and snooze. Provide multiple action buttons, real-time update and even take form input directly into notifications.

App Launcher

Dock

The Dock floating toolbar enables easy access for launching apps that are most frequently used. Developers can customize icons and create customizable drop-down menus to organize apps into intuitive categories.

App Discovery

Store

Store provides a familiar experience to simplify app discovery across your Platform. Developers can customize the Store landing page (including the navbar, hero and layout) as well as individual app icons, descriptions and associated action buttons.

Native Language Libraries

Here® Core includes libraries for creating a unified experience across all your apps, including native apps.

Native Language Adapters

HERE Core adapters enable side-by-side integration for web and native apps, as well as embedded integration where web apps run inside existing native apps. Our .NET, Java and C++ adapters let you access HERE Core APIs from your native apps. Invoke apps on HERE Core, control windows, share context, and more.

Window Snapping

HERE Core’s Snap SDK extends its layout capabilities to window snapping, allowing multiple windows to be grouped and to behave like a single window. This capability is not restricted to HERE Core windows. With Snap SDK it is possible to group almost any window on the desktop.

Development and Deployment

Built on Chromium and Electron, HERE Runtime underpins our visual components and APIs. The runtime enables native desktop experience, app interoperability and enterprise security with a Web-First architecture.