Android Browser "App"

[itsbhanusharma (Bhanu Sharma)]

What You’re mentioning is a PWA. It is mostly a browser shortcut with extra features.

See:

Discourse now works as a PWA in iOS

It’s been a long time coming, but finally Discourse can be used as a pwa in iOS devices. This is now possible thanks to many changes over the years, some from Apple and lots from us. Both meta.discourse.org and review.discourse.org have all features enabled, so please give it a go: [szoter_annotated_image_1] [szoter_annotated_image_2] [szoter_annotated_image_3] After that you get a nice icon for the Discourse instance on your home screen. After clicking on it you will have: A dedicate…

New PWA install interface on Android

Starting on Chrome 90, Discourse admins can add screenshots to the PWA install bottom sheet. You will need to take a few screenshots of interesting pages, upload those a topic and fill then in at /admin/site_settings/category/branding?filter=manifest screenshots. For the screenshots, Chrome documents the following requirements: Width and height must be at least 320px and at most 3840px. The maximum dimension can’t be twice larger than the minimum dimension. Screenshots must have the same as…