Re: PWA-Installation Issues with WebView

Hi Jospeh,

Thank you for reaching out. This Community Group is currently collecting
use cases and challenges that WebView users like you encounter. This is
a very good use case we should add to our report.

Would you like to describe this in an issue in our GitHub repository
https://github.com/WebView-CG/usage-and-challenges/issues ? We keep
track of submitted usages and challenges there and compile them into a
document for our future work.

This group does not do implementation or specification work. For short
term ideas, solutions or workarounds for your problem I think you could
have a look at the bug trackers and documentations of the WebViews your
users are using. Maybe someone there is able to help you. Otherwise you
might need to direct your users to the system browser to get them into
your PWA but that's just my ideas.

Kind regards
Niklas Merz

On March 9, 2024, "Joseph D. Smith" <joseph.jds.smith@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi. I am the web developer and owner of the website/PWA, Localhostack.
> My issue is that WebViews currently don't support PWA installation
> such as from the Facebook app for example. 
> I was told by Simone from W3C that the issue is the PWA installation
> doesn't fire in WebViews because they don't open in an actual web
> browser. I am hoping that the WebView community can fix this issue, as
> the majority of my promotion is done on Facebook, which the majority
> of my friends and family don't understand the difference between a
> WebView (which can't fire PWA installation) and the browser (which is
> where PWA installations happen).
> Can the WebView community somehow solve this problem by allowing
> WebViews to fire Progressive Web App install prompts? 
> Best regards,
>
> Joseph D. Smith
> Web Developer/Owner
> Localhostack, SP.
>
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