progressive-web-apps

I uploaded a Trusted Web Activity app to Google Play Console. The app was perfectly made according to Googles own guidelines and it did not break any policies. I used Google Play App Signing and Digital Asset Links to verify the connection between the app and my PWA website. This is Googles suggested way of handling things.

My app got suspended. Google told me this:

It's a violation of the Webviews and Affiliate Spam policy to publish an app where the primary purpose of the app is to provide a webview of a website without permission from the website owner or administrator. If you are the site creator/content owner, please reply with verifiable documentation.

I told them that my app was indeed a Trusted Web Activity and that I used Digital Asset Links to verify domain ownership. This is what Google themselves has to say about this method:

Content in a Trusted Web Activity is trusted -- the app and the site it opens are expected to come from the same developer. This is verified using Digital Asset Links.

I was clearly doing the right thing, but this guy didn't seem to be on the same page as the TWA-department at Google. This is what he wrote back:

Currently our team is only able to handle issues related to the Google Play Developer Program Policies. In order for me to process your appeal, please still provide verifiable document to prove the domain ownership.

The bottom line is: Google does not recognize their own way of verifying a Trusted Web Activity using Digital Asset Links, even though Google themselves have developed this technology and is working hard to brand it as their new and awesome way to get your Progressive Web App into Google Play Store. I was forced to provide them with additional information, such as a domain invoice.

I have several others TWA apps that I wish to publish to Play Store. I don't want them to get suspended as well. Does anyone have any experience on how to handle this situation?

Note: I made sure that my Digital Asset Link was working properly before uploading the app to Play Store. The app did not have an address bar.

Trusted Web Activities are a new way to integrate your web-app content such as your PWA with your Android app using a protocol based on Custom Tabs.

I have a PWA that is cross-platform but am running into some issues on iOS 11.3+.

When a user executes "Add to Homescreen" I would like to KEEP the menu bar (refresh, back, forward buttons). i.e. I don't want full-screen mode because I don't want to have to create my own refresh and back buttons.

I've followed the advice at https://medium.com/@firt/dont-use-ios-web-app-meta-tag-irresponsibly-in-your-progressive-web-apps-85d70f4438cb . Most other articles I've found are significantly out-of-date on the subject.

I've removed the "apple-mobile-web-app-capable" meta tag but it doesn't work. I've also tried setting the value to "no".

I have an Angular 8 app, and I ran this command to try to set up PWA functionality:

In progressive web application (PWA), it is said to make a web app fully PWA-compliant, I need to have a manifest file.

(1) But what happens if my web app registers a service worker but I didn't define a manifest file? Any typical examples?

(2) Is it correct that service worker is a technique used in PWA, but is not necessarily exclusive to PWAs (i.e. non-PWA web apps could have service workers as well)?

I have a problem to insert html into document using javascript.

Code that trying to insert html into document:

I have tried to follow the instructions in and created a new project "Windows Application Packaging Project" (see here https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/progressive-web-apps/windows-features#set-up-and-run-your-universal-windows-app) but I run into an issue on step 2. After creating the project in the Application Tab I do not see "Start Page" text entry, instead I see "Entry Point". Any ideas?

I'm developing a progressive web application (PWA) that will eventually send notifications to users.

I already know I'm able to send push notifications (like any regular app), as explained in the following blog post: https://developers.google.com/web/fundamentals/getting-started/codelabs/push-notifications/?hl=en-us.

I also know that I can add a PWA to the home screen, by creating a simple manifest file (https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2014/11/Support-for-installable-web-apps-with-webapp-manifest-in-chrome-38-for-Android).

However, after having the app in home screen, I would like to add a "hint" to user, letting him know that he has to access the application. A great way to do that is doing something like a "badge notification" (as showed in Facebook icon on the image below).

Is it possible to add this kind of behavior using progressive web applications?

Google recently launched a post explaining about the so called "Badging for App Icons", which is pretty exciting:

https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2018/12/badging-api

• https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=719176&desc=2
• https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=685159
• https://github.com/mgiuca/badging/blob/master/explainer.md
• https://docs.google.com/document/d/1AmX53h-gk8wN7LPMi_Mq7fsIMgsMKRD6zKa1Ymxxvvc/edit#

As Josh Lee pointed out in Is there a way to add badge notifications using progressive web apps (PWA)?, there are some discussions about the subject on the chromium team.

Looking at the discussion:

FYI, the notification indicators are being pushed to M-71.

and

Thanks for the heads up. That's fine for us because while we hope to have this testable behind a flag in M70, there's no way we'll be launching the API before (at least) M71.

So, maybe, at least for now, it seems that it's not possible to add badge notifications for PWAs, but maybe in the future we'll be able to do that.

Is Payment requests API built to work as part of PWA only, or can be used in regular web sites as well?

I followed the beginner article for building Ionic PWAs: https://www.joshmorony.com/the-bare-necessities-progressive-web-apps-in-ionic/

1. At what point should I see the "add to homescreen" option? I hosted the contents of the www folder on a development server with an SSL connection and domain name. The app works great, but I don't get presented with the homescreen option.

2. When setting the option for "display":"fullscreen" in the manifest.json, shouldn't the browser address bar disappear when accessing the web url of the hosted application?

Thank you in advance!