In the current world of technologies, one of the technologies that is currently booming is the PWA. It was introduced by Google in 2015 and since t...
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Hey Tharun, thanks for the post! I just want to add here that it’s possible to customize splash screens on iOS. You might want to check out pwa-asset-generator - npmjs.com/package/pwa-asset-generator.
That's great! Thanks for Sharing it Onder, will try using it someday. 🙂 Also feel free to share if any such generators are available for Android and web. Thanks
Sure! This is library you can use while developing PWAs to generate icons and splash screens for all platforms.
Oh that would be very helpful. Thanks once again. 🙂
By the way, have you worked on any PWAs that are publicly accessible? If yes, please share the website link, we could check it out. 🙂
I wrote many of PWAs just for testing and here's my thoughts:
.. and since there is something like Flutter or SwiftUI for iOS devices i still prefer this way. Meybe something will change later - hope so because I am more JavaScript developer than Dart or Swift :D
There's a way around the update issue you mention. You can basically load the new version in the background and then refresh to use the new version. Here's another good article about it: medium.com/progressive-web-apps/pw...
Excellent article! Thanks for sharing.. 🙂
Great points Pawel, thanks for letting us know about your experience 🙂
Very interesting considerations, Pawel! Thanks for sharing them.
No push notification on IOS.
Ah I see, that's another con then. Thanks for contributing 🙂
Is there any way in which we can deploy PWA onto the Play Store?
Yes, there is. I will very soon be writing about TWA - Trusted Web Activities - which are not same as the usual Hybrid apps that we used to create, but is something above that. You can use your Progressive web app to create a TWA and you're good to go and can upload the APK to the play store.
I Will be writing about this soon, thank you 😊
Okay thank you 🎉
PWABuilder ease the process. With its help, you can just provide your PWA URL and then get the package to upload and a README or what's to do.
I used it recently to bring DeckDeckGo to Google Play, was really handy and straightforward.
I've come across this, but haven't used it. Thanks for contributing David. 🙂
I find it weird that's one con for one of the reasons that PWA was created is to avoid the long flow of going to your favourite mobile OS store, clicking install, wait for it to download then be able to use it. People are annoyed by the growing consumption of disk usage relative to the benefit of using the app, the install flow and getting notifications to update an app. It also solves the problem of downloading a big amount of MBs on a bad network and could reduce your roaming charges (where if I'm not opening the app it's not updated). Also for users, installing an app could mean giving privilege access to the phone so they have to inspect the app privileges for anything odd (miners, unneeded GPS).
This impact of app install was significant.
In 2015 for Google, 69% users abandoned the page when they saw an interstitial to download the app:
twitter.com/jaffathecake/status/62...
Still in 2019:
forbes.com/sites/victoriacollins/2...
So I would add in Pros: higher user retention of the app/website.
That's a good perspective 🙂 thanks for contributing
I have tried to bring my forum to the PWA world. However, I realized that all the content got cached and new activities on questions were not reflected. Even so the server was available all time. So from my POV, the main disadvantage is the cache handling. And at that time (last year) I could not find helpful information about how to fix this.
Ah.. that's a great experience and a point to think about.. so it isn't feasible unless we know the appropriate functions to use. Good point 🙂🔥
Having SSL and secure connection is not a disadvantage. :)
I would even say that it is a big advantage for user that no one can implement insecure push notifications that may include a sensitive information.
Yes, this is true. And, actually Google started prioritizing https URLs over http a few years ago, so even non-PWA sites are better off switching.
That's a good perspective. And also, given the easy ways in which we can convert our hosted site from http to https, yeah what you tell makes sense.
Thank you for contributing 🙂
I like your sticky notes apps.
Thank you 😊
Great article! Where should I start learning PWA?
Check out theNetNinja playlist on YouTube 🙂
+1, thats a great channel. Thanks for your tips Tharun
Thanks a lot Daniacco 🙂 Yes , he is one of my favourites🙂
Hi good article on "Not easy for a beginner to get started"
I know of a good site that makes it easy for developers
And generates code for any type of website
Also Good for a third-party site like wix website
wappaa.com
Have you tried IONIC + Capacitor for build PWA ?
No... Will check it out 🙂
One complaint, can you at the start name what PWA means for those that don't know. No where in the article do you break down what PWA stands for
Thanks for the suggestion, will add it right away. 🙂
Check this out available.ng
It uses PWA. Not sure about service worker
Thanks for this post Tharun, is amazing
Thank you.. glad you liked it 🙂
You can now post pwa on play store directly!
Oh is it, how is that?
Great post, didn't know this much about PWA, now interested to Learn it.
Glad it helped