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Why Progressive Web Apps Are The Future of Mobile Web

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Here’s one of the best essays I’ve ever read about why progressive web apps are important, how they work, and what impact they have on a business:

PWAs are powerful, effective, fast and app-like.

It’s hard to imagine a mobile web property that could not be significantly improved via PWA implementation. They can also potentially eliminate the need for many “vanity” native apps that exist today.

My only small disagreement with this piece is their use of the term “mobile … Read article “Why Progressive Web Apps Are The Future of Mobile Web”

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Maskable Icons: Android Adaptive Icons for Your PWA

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There is a new web feature called maskable icons that is coming soon to Firefox Preview and other web browsers. This new icon format will let your PWAs have their own adaptive icons on Android.
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Weekly Platform News: CSS Scroll Snap, Opera GX, PWA Install Icon

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In this week's roundup, Chrome is adding an install option for Progressive Web Apps, Opera GX comes to Windows, the ECMAScript proposals get an update, and CSS Scroll Snap is coming to a Firefox browser near you.
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Weekly Platform News: Feature Policy, ECMAScript i18n API, Packaged PWAs

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In this week's news, a new Feature Policy API in Chrome, Firefox blocks cookies from known trackers, Chrome for Android now allows websites to share images, and more.
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Weekly Platform News: PWA Issue on iOS, Performance Culture, Anti-Tracking in Browsers

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In this week's news: resolving an issue when restarting progressive web apps in iOS, why The Telegraph now vets all scripts before they make it to their codebase, and Microsoft plans to add tracking prevention to the Edge browser.
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How to Get a Progressive Web App into the Google Play Store

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PWA (Progressive Web Apps) have been with us for some time now. Yet, each time I try explaining it to clients, the same question pops up: “Will my users be able to install the app using app stores?” The answer has traditionally been no, but this changed with Chrome 72 which shipped a new feature called TWA (Trusted Web Activities).

Trusted Web Activities are a new way to integrate your web-app content such as your PWA with yourAndroid app

… Read article “How to Get a Progressive Web App into the Google Play Store”
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Better Than Native

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Andy Bell wrote up his thoughts about the whole web versus native app debate which I think is super interesting. It was hard to make it through the post because I was nodding so aggressively as I read:

The whole idea of competing with native apps seems pretty daft to me, too. The web gives us so much for free that app developers could only dream of, like URLs and the ability to publish to the entire world for free,

… Read article “Better Than Native”
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Push and ye shall receive

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Sometimes the seesaw of web tech is fascinating. Service workers have arrived, and beyond offline networking (read Jeremy’s book) which is possibly their best feature, they can enable push notifications via the Push API.

I totally get the push (pun intended) to make that happen. There is an omnipresent sentiment that we want the web to win, as there should be in this industry. Losing on the web means losing to native apps on all the … Read article “Push and ye shall receive”

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Seriously, though. What is a progressive web app?

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Amberley Romo read a ton about PWAs in order to form her own solid understanding.

“Progressive web app” (PWA) is both a general term for a new philosophy toward building websites and a specific term with an established set of three explicit, testable, baseline requirements.

As a general term, the PWA approach is characterized by striving to satisfy the following set of attributes:

  1. Responsive
  2. Connectivity independent
  3. App-like-interactions
  4. Fresh
  5. Safe
  6. Discoverable
  7. Re-engageable
  8. Installable
  9. Linkable
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WordPress + PWAs

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One of the sessions from the Chrome Dev Summit, hosted by Das Surma and Daniel Walmsley. It’s not so much about WordPress as it is about CMS powered sites that aren’t really “apps”, if there is such a thing, and the possibility of turning that site into a Progressive Web AppSite.

I find the CMS + PWA combo interesting because:

  • If you aren’t stoked about AMP, and let’s face it, a lot of people are not stoked
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