Re: PWA-Installation Issues with WebView

Hey Joseph,

+1 to everything Niklas said. This sounds like an interesting problem.

I just wanted to add that if you want to report anything in the short term,
you can report it for iOS WKWebView on the webkit issue tracker
<https://bugs.webkit.org/>, and on the Chromium issue tracker
<https://issues.chromium.org/> for Android WebView. One interesting
challenge here is that particular apps will likely want control over this
behaviour, so while adding PWAs could be explored generally, you may find
that particular apps like the Facebook app may ultimately still want to
disable that behaviour.

All the best,
Ben

On Mon, Mar 11, 2024 at 7:08 AM Niklas Merz <niklasmerz@apache.org> wrote:

> 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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