Add progressive web app play store/app store
A great place to get started with a Hosted Web App is PWABuilder.com. This tool can be used online or from the CLI. Part of it creates a service worker and stuff, but it also creates the Cordova projects for Android and iOS.
I have used PWABuilder just to create a starting point. Eventually combining the generated iOS and Android projects into one for iOS, Android and Windows. Because it is Cordova you can use plugins as well.
Update 2019
Now Google is open to PWA apps on Google Playstore,hence one could use tools like PWA2APK inorder to convert existing PWA's to Google Playstore ready Apps. The Android APK (PWApk) generated by the tool can be uploaded to Playstore.
This tool has been tweeted out by Alex Russel, one of the inventors of PWA.
you might want to search for deep linking.
https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2017/02/improved-add-to-home-screen#android_intent_filters
The New and Improved Add to Home screen
Paul Kinlan By Paul Kinlan Paul is a Developer Advocate Chrome first introduced the "Add to Home screen" banners in Chrome 42. This was a big step for the web as it provided users the ability to easily keep a favorite site on their home screen, much like native apps. We've heard from developers like Alibaba that users re-engage 4 times more often with their site added to home screen. We've also seen that tuning the heuristics for add to home screen to prompt sooner yields to 48% more installs.
We are happy to share that the team has worked on an improved add to home screen experience that makes web apps first-class citizens of Android. Instead of simply being a shortcut icon, web apps will now be integrated with Android. This means that users that add a PWA to their home screen will be able to find it anywhere they see other apps (e.g. in the app drawer or searching for apps), and open the site from intents. We see this as the first step among a number of improvements to come and intend to make it the default experience for add to home screen in the coming months.
The improved add to home screen experience is already available in Chrome Canary and will be rolling out to Chrome 57 beta over the next few weeks.
Note: it has been rolled to all users on Chrome's stable channel as of Chrome 59. To test your site, visit your PWA. You can start install from the three dot menu > "Add to Home screen" or through the add to home screen banner.
This new experience is a huge improvement over the original version of add to home screen, but there are some differences between these installed Progressive Web Apps and Android Apps.
Updating your app's icon and name You now have the ability to update your Progressive Web App's icon and name and have it reflected to the user. Changing your icon or name in the manifest will update the icon on the home screen after the user has subsequently opened the site.
Android Intent Filters When a Progressive Web App is installed via this new improved add to home screen experience it will be registered with the system to be a target for the URL space for its domain. This means that the when a user clicks on a link that is contained within the scope of your Progressive Web App, your app will be opened instead of Chrome opening with your PWA running.
When you install a Progressive Web App, we look at your Web App Manifest and other meta-data and create an APK (Android Package Kit) that is installed on to the user's device, which may take a short moment the first time any user installs your Web App.
Note: Whenever the Web App Manifest changes we need to generate a new APK, it is thus not a good idea to have frequently updating manifests. It is especially important to ensure that you don't use user specific identifiers in the manifest (such as a custom start_url per user) as this generate an unique APK which means that your install time will be a lot longer than you expect. In that APK we define an Android Intent Filter that defines when your web application should be opened. For example, to open the https://airhorner.com app whenever that link is clicked, Chrome would create the following .
<intent-filter> <action android:name="android.intent.action.VIEW" /> <category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" /> <category android:name="android.intent.category.BROWSABLE" /> <data android:scheme="https" android:host="airhorner.com" android:pathPrefix="/" /></intent-filter>This is incredibly powerful, but not very flexible. This simply says when a link that is clicked or intercepted in Android for the entire domain of https://airhorner.com/ open the App.
But what if you don't want your PWA to open for all paths on your domain? That is where the scope web app manifest property comes in to play. The scope is a....