Application providing method including extracting and converting packaged application

A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing an application providing program that causes a computer to execute a process comprising:

• determining a host name uniquely for a packaged application, which is registered in an app store and in which files included in an application are packaged;
• extracting content from the packaged application;
• identifying, based on information about the application included in the extracted content, a type of an execution platform of the packaged application;
• converting, in accordance with the execution platform of the packaged application,
• the extracted content to content for a web browser operating on a terminal, the converted content being executed on the web browser and being stored in an area of a storing unit, the area being specified based on the host name;
• and
• providing, when an application acquisition request including a host name is received from the web browser, the content for the web browser,
• the content-being acquired from the area based on the host name included in the application acquisition request, to the web browser.

An application providing server comprising:

• a processor configured to execute a process including:
• determining a host name uniquely for a packaged application, which is registered in an app store and in which files included in an application are packaged;
• extracting content from the packaged application;
• identifying, based on information about the application included in the extracted content, a type of an execution platform of the packaged application;
• converting, in accordance with the execution platform of the packaged application,
• the extracted content to content for a web browser operating on a terminal, the converted content being executed on the web browser and being stored in an area of a storing unit, the area being specified based on the host name;
• and
• providing, when an application acquisition request including a host name is received from the web browser, the content for the web browser,
• the content-being acquired from the area based on the host name included in the application acquisition request, to the web browser.