The app install banner isn’t displaying for my site. I somewhat worked around this by documenting the process that people need to go through: [image] Install County Fence as an App Knowledge The Fe…

To clarify, I’m hoping to prompt them to install it as a PWA. It seems the admin setting for this: [IMG_20250405_101635] Actually gets them to install from the app store, which is not what I want. [image] Android app installation is not offered Support …

[image] bitmage: there anything I can troubleshoot to ensure the app install banner pops up at the top of the page? Can you share a link to your site so I can troubleshoot? [image] bitmage: Actually gets them to install from the app store, which is not what I want. That’s why they are…

The site is at delta.countyfence.org . I unchecked those two boxes just to test. Loaded in firefox on mobile. I’m not seeing a banner so far… You’re saying a PWA banner should display when those boxes are not checked?

I saw the banner once when I first opened Chrome on this URL. I wanted to take a screenshot, but I did not react enough fast. However, I can’t see it anymore, no matter what browser I use, or clear the cache.

[image] bitmage: firefox on mobile Firefox doesn’t support the PWA install banner.

Now in “Browser” a generic Chromium that comes with my phone. Banner doesn’t display here. Chrome won’t install as my phone is degoogled, LineageOS… So I can’t test in that.

AFAIK the PWA install banner is only supported on Google Chrome, and uses the Play Store to build the PWA .APK on the fly during the install process. It depends on several things you won’t have in a degoogled phone.

This Stack Overflow explains more . It looks like PWA should be supported in browsers besides Chrome. I know I installed the PWA from Brave, so my browser certainly supports it. beforeinstallprompt only triggers once - if the user dismisses it it’s gone. Apparently to avoid hassling the user? The…

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Falco (Falco) April 6, 2025, 2:41am 6

Firefox doesn’t support the PWA install banner.

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App Install Banner Doesn't Display

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