A user PeakProsperity asked how to trigger and locate the Android browser “app” — actually a Progressive Web App (PWA) — that Chromium-based browsers offer for Discourse sites. itsbhanusharma clarified it’s a PWA, essentially a browser shortcut with enhanced features, and linked to relevant Meta Discourse threads explaining PWA support on iOS and Android. Moin provided a visual guide, showing that the option to install the PWA appears in the browser menu, accompanied by a screenshot. PeakProsperity confirmed the solution was helpful and appreciated the reminder. The discussion focused on non-Discourse.org hosted sites and clarified that this is not a native app but a dedicated browser instance via PWA technology.
When I first accessed my Discourse site on my Android browser (chromium) it prompted me to download an “App”. One of our user’s is asking me how to find it after it was downloaded, but I can’t for the life of me find any documentation on this. Can somebody remind me the following?
How do you trigger the browser to download the app?
Once downloaded, where does it go?
For clarity, I’m not talking about the app for folks hosted on Discourse.org. I’m asking about the one chromium-based browser’s have that’s not really an “app” but a dedicated browser instance.
