I followed all recommended steps for setting up a PWA which can be installed on the user device, following the guideline here: Installable PWAs (MDN):
To make the website installable, it needs the following things in place:
- A web manifest, with the correct fields filled in
- The web site to be served from a secure (HTTPS) domain
- An icon to represent the app on the device
- A service worker registered, to allow the app to work offline (this is required only by Chrome for Android currently)
Still, I don't see the browser-default installation prompt.
How do I find out, why my PWA cannot be installed?
I recommend using Lighthouse, which is an excellent tool for auditing your web app with respect to different categories, including PWA properties. It is also available in Google Chrome in the developer tools (Ctrl-Shift-I / Cmd-Opt-I and select tab Lighthouse).
How do I trigger a PWA audit in Lighthouse (in Google Chrome)?
Choose the category Progressive Web App and then click on Generate report.
Example report
In the example below, you can see that there are some issues present. But the reason, why you don't see the installation prompt is the service worker. Apparently, it isn't registered as expected.
Web app manifest or service worker do not meet the installability requirements
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When I am updating the logo of the PWA app the icon is not getting updated for the previously installed applications. However for newly installed apps I am getting the correct logo.
Did you try updating the new image icon in manifest.json & then showing a prompt to users to refresh the PWA?
You can try to have a look at the documentation for Android APK (from the question is not clear your target device: web or mobile).
Chrome will periodically compare the locally installed manifest against a copy of the manifest fetched from the network. If any of the properties in the manifest required to add the PWA to the home screen have changed in the network copy, Chrome will request an updated WebAPK, reflecting those new values.
This feature is not yet available for desktop, but planned in a future release.
Do you use any framework (Angular, React) to build your PWA? If you want to read more details about how to install an app on the homescreen or the web manifest properties, you can have a look here.
when I run the Google smart home demo, I have a problem at 25.Find your app in the list of providers. The result is that I can’t find my APP in Home control use the Google Pixel device.
I am sure that:
1、I use the same google account to create the project in web and login in google home App on Google Pixel, and I launch the test in 30 mins which mean that the test shouldn’t be expired.
2、I have done the command "gactions test --action_package PACKAGE_NAME --project PROJECT_ID"
Could you any body gave me some suggestions? I have sticked it for more than two weeks.
The Google smart home demo you mentioned is to help you build web service to process Google smart home requests. After building web service and host it on some public URL, you have to specify this URL in your action.json.
Also you need to build your OAuth 2.0 server and specify it in project setting in AoG console.
Then after executing"gactions test --action_package PACKAGE_NAME --project PROJECT_ID", you shold see your app [test]YOUR_APP_NAME in the add devices section.
Please check if you miss any part above and your gactions command runs without error messages.
Good luck~
i am building my first phonegap app and when i open the app i instantly redirecting (window.location) the user to my server where my web app is hosted. Is it possible to load the phonegap plugins from there? Because the "deviceready" event is not firing and i cannot call any plugin functions.
I can confirm that loading remotely does appear to allow access to native components (when scripts are properly loaded) and that cordova.jsdoes not appear to need to be loaded by the local index.html bootstrap.
Short answer: Yes
Some 'gotcha's'
You will have to supply correct cordova.js version for the platform browsing to your site.
you can look here for more info https://github.com/apache/cordova-js. This project hosts the core js elements, and builds the platform specific cordova.js lib
Any plugin api's your app wants to interact with must be pre-installed into the Native App
any plugin with native code will have to be added to the project and deployed to device bundled inside the app. There is no way to lazyload native code. The js portions of the plugin could be hosted on your server, however.
More information, some apps that do this
The PhoneGap Developer App uses a similar technique to what is describe above and what you want. The only difference is that it is meant as a dev tool, and the server is a local dev machine.
The Cordova App Harness also uses this technique of pre-bundling an app package with plugins, to be consumed by remotely hosted resources
You cannot, deviceready only functioning if the app run on mobile phone environment only. If web based or dekstop application, it won't trigger.
No , dont do that . loading remote website will not able to intract with your plugins . and the app will get rejected on istore too
Couple days ago Google Chrome automatically updated from version 31.* to version 32.0.1700.76 m. After that happened it does not show in DevTools network traffic request/responses of "application/msbin1" type anymore. These requests are visible in all other browsers' dev tools (FireFox, IE) and in Fiddler, but not in Chrome. Also Chrome's popup menu in this version is very glitchy.
I don't see the way to downgrade Chrome to previous version. Please help I don't want to uninstall Chrome.
Network traffic does not even show resources (XAP file) a page loads.
Example:
http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight/pixel-shader/demo/
This page loads file SilverlightShaderApp.xap, however dev tools of new Chrome's version never shows it in network tab.
I posted the question here, because it's developers question, not just chrome users.
I reported this issue on google chrome forum as well: here.
Possibly related bugs:
Issue 173844: Developer tools (Network section) don't show response of requests from flash applications
Issue 335502: XMLHttpRequests from Silverlight is not visible in devtools network tab
To avoid the bug, you could downgrade to Chrome 31. A fully offline installer can be downloaded from http://download.oldapps.com/Chrome/31.0.1650.39_chrome_installer.exe.
If you downgrade Chrome, don't forget to disable auto-update. Also, "star" the relevant issues on Chromium's issue tracker so you'll receive email notifications for progress updates. When the issue is fixed, enable auto-update again.
Often, starting a new version of Chrome renders a profile unusable for older Chrome versions ("Your profile can not be used because it is from a newer version of Google Chrome."). When you see such message on start-up, either delete your old profile (don't forget to make a back-up!) (you can also try to delete some files, according to various users, deleting "Web Data" and "Web Data-journal" is sufficient), or launch Chrome with a new profile directory (--user-data-dir=path\to\profile-dir).
For more information on user profiles, see http://www.chromium.org/user-experience/user-data-directory.
I am testing my Windows 8 app by logging in as the guest account. I want to see how it works installing with limited permissions.
It seems I cannot debug any apps. Here are the steps:
Login as the Windows 8 Guest Account
Open Visual Studio.
Create a new Windows Store app, using the grid template
Click the play button to deploy to the simulator or the local machine.
Upon deployment, I receive this error:
Unable to debug Windows Store app App1/App1/bin/Debug/App1.exe
The debugger was unable to find the registration for the target application. If the problem persists, try uninstalling and then reinstalling the application.
Am I unable to deploy apps without being an administrator? If not, is there a way around this problem?
It doesn't make sense to try to debug installing an app as a guest. Guest accounts are not allowed to install apps. There is a short forum post regarding accounts here.
If you are wanting to see how the app performs for a guest after it has already been installed, you can run the app from the desktop tile, but I don't know how to run the debugger on it, or even if you can.