We shipped A2HS prompting on Android in March 2015; didn't have a name at this point:https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2015/03/increasing-engagement-with-app-install-banners-in-chrome-for-android …
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So, what you've got up to this point is the story of an insurgency; a small group of people who see an alternative to The Plan (TM).
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Because make no mistake about it: every browser vendor at this point was chasing an app-store strategy, thinking that'd buy them relevance.
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...and the ones who weren't doing so overtly were playing second fiddle to their employer's app-store strategies.
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By Spring '15, we'd launched everything you think of as "PWA" technology. Long road, but available for some. Lots left to fill in.
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E.g., desktop PWAs? What about storage limits? Iteration on Push Notifications? Market success and case studies? All in the future.
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As insurgents we were gluing together bits and bobs organisationally, hoping nobody noticed until such time as it "worked" and was credible.
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Talking with early partners was challenging. They all had mobile, responsive websites, and trying to explain SWs and A2HS, etc. didn't work
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You literally had to drag them through each and every step in the user journey and hope they "got" it.
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Fortuitously,
@johnallsopp had invited me to speak at Code '15: https://www.webdirections.org/code15/1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes
Frances & I sat down to come up with a more compact way to talk about A2HS+SW+Push+etc. as prep. Result? Blog post: https://infrequently.org/2015/06/progressive-apps-escaping-tabs-without-losing-our-soul/ …
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This wasn't an official Google thing (though I'm an employee). Many on the team hate(d) the name. I only ever argued for it as least-worst.
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Lots of folks argued we didn't need it, should be something else, etc....then Flipkart & CDS '15 came around:https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNYkxOF6rcICcHeQY02XLvoGL34rZFWZn …
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