_me using PWAs on an iphone_
Yep, oneplus might not be a good device for this
Since oneplus is android based, I’d think they’d have all that built in, but it might not
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Replying to @mhartington @slightlylate
its funny, I was told that oneplus' OS is pretty close to stock android so I was hoping to avoid this sort of unknown unknown (if it is a oneplus issue - i havent verified that my issue doesnt happen on Pixel) I still dont know if this is the Browser or the OS' responsibility
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Replying to @swyx @mhartington
This is very confusing! It *looks* like you didn't get a WebAPK installed (instead, you got a homescreen shortcut, hence the little chrome icon).
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What URL were you installing? I'm not aware that GitHub is a PWA.
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Replying to @slightlylate @swyx and
If you go to something that's a known PWA, e.g. http://airhorner.com or http://coronavirus.app and install them, do they install from Chrome w/o that little Chrome icon in the lower left?
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Replying to @slightlylate @mhartington and
yes, they install w/o Chrome icon. OK I think I get it now - "Add to Home Screen" is overloaded for both PWAs and Chrome shortcuts, I have no way to know until after I install, and when I uninstall the shortcuts don't know that they are shortcuts and so uninstall Chrome itself?
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Replying to @swyx @slightlylate and
Yeah that's it. But note that shortcuts *can* be PWAs, too. Chrome (and also Samsung Internet) wraps PWAs in a native app shell when you install, so Android believes they are native – they get a normal icon, are visible in launcher, settings, etc., you can uninstall. ↓
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Replying to @JonasKuske @swyx and
But if you use another browser (e.g. Edge or FF), adding a PWA to your homescreen will only generate a normal shortcut, even though it'll work offline etc. Also possible with Chrome, just yesterday it skipped generating the app shell and only added a shortcut for some reason :/
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Replying to @JonasKuske @swyx and
I don't know why this is so complicated – why is "Add to homescreen" overloaded, on desktop the message for PWAs is a clear "Install app?". Why does Android require slow workarounds like WebAPK? But no matter what, it definitely hurts PWA discoverability & feasibility. :(
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There's work happening to move all the language to be unified, likely around "install". And WebAPK isn't a "slow workaround", it's getting a first-class app for a website. Sort of a big deal.
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Replying to @slightlylate @swyx and
That's great to hear! And it's a big deal for sure, but still "slow workaround" is what it often felt like, at least for some time. Creating the apk was way slower than adding the shortcut (still faster than installing sth. from the Play Store, but not by much in some cases). →
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Replying to @JonasKuske @slightlylate and
And PWAs look, but don't always work like native apps (e.g. they broke "Digital Wellbeing" – but seems like that's been fixed!), so that's where that "workaround" feeling came from. Anyhow, I
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