Progressive Web Application (PWA)

Firefox 58 just added support for PWAs for Android:
https://hacks.mozilla.org/2018/01/firefox-58-the-quantum-era-continues/

See them in action here:

Here some more (developer) information about how they work:

https://developers.google.com/web/progressive-web-apps/

This already works with a lot of websites like Twitter or Facebook. Now, why not make Discourse compatible, too? That would close the gap of a missing (real/native*) Android app.
But it feels like a native app, and just works with the web version, without much changes.

* As Discourse’ Android app is also just a webkit wrapper.

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