progressive-web-apps – Tarik Billa

Deep linking from Web to PWA (Standalone Version)

April 11, 2024 by Tarik

There is an example of describing intent filters in json here. The relevant section of the manifest is intent_filters { “manifest_package”: “org.chromium.webapk.test”, “scope_url”: “https://pwa.rocks/”, “intent_filters”: { “scope_url_scheme”: “https”, “scope_url_host”: “pwa.rocks”, “scope_url_path”: “https://stackoverflow.com/” }, “start_url”: “https://pwa.rocks/”, “display_mode”: “standalone”, “orientation”: “portrait”, “theme_color”: “2147483648L”, “background_color”: “2147483648L”, “icon_urls_and_icon_murmur2_hashes”: “http://www.pwa.rocks/icon1.png 0 http://www.pwa.rocks/icon2.png 0”, “web_manifest_url”: “https://pwa.rocks/pwa.webmanifest”, “version_code”: “1”, “version_name”: “1.0”, “bound_webapk”: … Read more

Open file with system application in a Progressive Web App

April 10, 2024 by Tarik

Since this question has gained a lot of attention lately, for anyone interested on the subject there are very exiting news: the Writable Files API (it is now called the File System Access API). At this time the proposed new APIs are merely in the design phase, and there is a vivid discussion about the … Read more

URL not found on Google Play app when signed in as internal app tester

January 8, 2024 by Tarik

Progressive Web App: How to detect and handle when connection is up again

December 30, 2023 by Tarik

You could monitor the offline and online events, which are widely supported. Further, you could test connectivity by attempting to fetch HEAD from the target server URL: // Test this by running the code snippet below and then // use the “Offline” checkbox in DevTools Network panel window.addEventListener(‘online’, handleConnection); window.addEventListener(‘offline’, handleConnection); function handleConnection() { if … Read more

SVG icon in PWA manifest.json – how to set it for all sizes?

December 26, 2023 by Tarik

“sizes”: “any” https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/semantics.html#attr-link-sizes

Android Back Button on a Progressive Web Application closes de App

December 13, 2023 by Tarik

Can a PWA app be published to app store and play store

December 4, 2023 by Tarik

While it is possible in both cases, publishing a PWA on the Apple Store is an incredible difficult journey, because Apple engineers try to build obstacles all the way long. This is by decision as Apple is making profits from its app store and PWAs would indeed subtract some of these gains. This is also … Read more

Progressive Web App – Service Worker not serving start_URL

November 22, 2023 by Tarik

Noted from Register A service worker, If we register the service worker file at /example/sw.js, then the service worker would only see fetch events for pages whose URL starts with /example/ (i.e. /example/page1/, /example/page2/). Inline with the shown error and given in this documentation, check the following: Define a start_url property in your manifest.json file. … Read more

Firefox: Service Worker: SecurityError: DOMException: The Operation is insecure

September 21, 2023 by Tarik

Did you check the cookie setting in about:preferences#privacy, it must be ‘keep until they expire’, if you have ‘keep until I close firefox’ selected sw will not register. you can find details on this thread: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1429714

Uninstalling PWA for development testing (windows)

September 18, 2023 by Tarik

The PWA apps reside in apps menu chrome://apps/ of chrome, and quite possibly exclusively under a different tab (a grayish second bar at the bottom of window), which is where you’d get the option to delete them that works.