Android Question [SOLVED WITH A TRICK] Create shortcut to PWA Website

[Juanet]

Im recently post about how to create shortcut URL: https://www.b4x.com/android/forum/posts/915512/

Maybe I have expressed myself badly and although I have solved what I tried (I have tried) to do is a shortcut to a web site PWA.

Website has ready (and work) with the web app manifest.json file and the link in the HTML code, so my question is, how to create the shorcut without go to the website and chose: "Add to home screen" that effectively adds a link on the main screen to the site but does so as an app, I will greatly appreciate the help you can give me, thanks in advance!

 

[Juanet]

Since I've been spending a lot of time for something that isn't really that "necessary", just what I've done is open a browser and send to a PWA site installation page.

The code to open web browser is here in the forum:

Open the browser with a specific web page

Opening the browser is very simple. First you need to add a reference to the Phone library. Then: Dim p As PhoneIntents StartActivity(p.OpenBrowser("http://www.b4x.com")) p.OpenBrowser returns an Intent object. Intents are like messages that are sent to the system which then acts...

www.b4x.com

And the code to install the PWA is that:

Making PWAs installable - Progressive web apps | MDN

One of the defining aspects of a PWA is that it can be promoted by the browser for installation on the device. Once installed, a PWA appears to users as a platform-specific app, a permanent feature of their device which they can launch directly from the operating system like any other app.

developer.mozilla.org

For me it is more than enough and I give the problem as solved