30 Days of PWA

Microsoft recently did a “30 Days of PWA” blog series. The posts got grouped per week, each week with a shared topic: Core Concepts: Learn the fundamental concepts and components of a PWA. Advanced Capabilities: Explore web capabilities APIs, status, and examples of use. Developer Tools: Learn about key authoring, debugging, auditing, testing and packaging …

Breaking Out of the Box

Patrick Brosset, writing for A List Apart, digging into the Window Controls Overlay for Progressive Web Apps: At the end of the day though, PWAs on desktop are constrained to the window they appear in: a rectangle with a title bar at the top. What if we could think outside this box, and reclaim the …

Learn PWA — A free course to learn how to build Progressive Web Apps

Learn how to build Progressive Web Apps (PWA) with this free course, authored by Maximiliano Firtman, on web.dev. You’ll learn PWA fundamentals like the Web App Manifest, Service Workers, how to design with an app in mind, what’s different from a classic web app, how to use other tools to test and debug your PWA. …

PWA Summit 2021 Talk Highlights

The entire livestream of PWA Summit 2021 is available online on YouTube. This is the full livestream of the conference, and includes the keynote, all 9 talks, all 3 live Q&A sessions, and the full Future of Web Apps panel. It also includes four talks from our organizing companies. Highlights to me are: Make your …

Progressive Web Apps in 2021

The Progressive Web App term is now five years old, and it’s time to sit down and understand where we are at 2021 within the platform, what has changed during 2020 and what we are expecting for the upcoming months. It shouldn’t surprise you while reading that iOS is the bottleneck here … Progressive Web …

Progressive Web Apps The Superpowers of the Web and Native Apps Combined

Free e-book by Google & Awwards on PWAs: We return to take a closer look at Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) and how they combine the reach of the web with the device integrations of installed software. In this ebook, Volume 2 in the series, you will learn: The capabilities of Progressive Web Apps Product strategies …

Automatically create an APK from your Progressive Web App with PWA2APK

As mentioned in How to publish your PWA onto the Google Play Store it’s now possible to publish your PWA’s onto the Google Play Store. Thanks to PWA2APK you no longer need to manually create your APK: “just” enter the URL of your PWA and an APK – which you’ll need to publish manually – …

How to publish your PWA onto the Google Play Store

Thanks to the Trusted Web Activity feature in Chrome 72 on Android, the Google Play Store is now open for Progressive Web Apps. Chrome 72 for Android is now shipping from the Play Store to all users and this version included Trusted Web Activity (TWA), that in a nutshell is a way to open Chrome …

How to display a “new version available” for a Progressive Web App

Dean Hume: I’ve built a number of Progressive Web Apps that simply update the service worker silently for the user in the background, but I really like the approach where you get a popup notification that suggests that there is a new version of the site available like Google’s Inbox provides – especially for an …

Tame your Service Worker before your Progressive Web App go into the wild

Slidedeck by Maxim Salnikov: With great power comes great responsibility – trivially, but true: I’ll show the examples of how easy the “Progressive” part of the PWA term could become “Regressive”, how to fix this, and how to test our Service Worker before deploying your app. First, we’ll go through the well-known PWA functionality (App …