# Exploring ServiceWorkers for Discourse

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/exploring-serviceworkers-for-discourse/32422
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [August 23, 2015, 4:36am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/exploring-serviceworkers-for-discourse/32422 "2015-08-23T04:36:07Z")
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### Author: ![erlend\_sh](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/erlend_sh/32/119475_2.png) [@erlend\_sh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/erlend_sh)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2015, 11:58am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/exploring-serviceworkers-for-discourse/32422/2 "2015-08-23T11:58:23Z")

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Very excited about this! I’m hoping it’d make sense to bundle “Add to Homescreen” into this effort.

> [@Fully support Android Chrome's "Add to Homescreen"](https://meta.discourse.org/t/fully-support-android-chromes-add-to-homescreen/21067):
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> New in Chrome 39 Beta is an improved [add to homescreen](https://developer.chrome.com/multidevice/android/installtohomescreen) experience. Since Chrome M31, you can set up your web app to have an application shortcut icon added to a device’s homescreen, and have the app launch in full-screen “app mode” using Chrome for Android’s “Add to homescreen” menu item. New in Chrome M39, you can define the metadata associated with your web application in a JSON-based manifest. The manifest provides a way to wrap metadata about a web application into a single file. Using …

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