When you click on add to homescreen, AFAIU it will ask a server to give you a WebAPK for that site, which is generated on the fly (probably cached if someone else asked for it before and there were no changes). /cc @Paul_Kinlan @firt
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It's difficult to predict the future and know if the APK creation will succeed or it falls back to a shortcut. Thus changing the vocab is really hard, and the difference is subtle between APK/shortcut for many users.
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I don't understand why "install" is not part of the vocabulary when the APK is installed because it offers that experience to users.
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Agree it's suboptimal, but it's a tricky balance since we - need to sign the APK (can't generate locally) - need to use the network (manifest, icon, APK), and on the web, you never know in advance if the network will work
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