Fortunately PWA are well supported on android, half the apps on my phone are PWA and I didn't need an app store or hacking my device to install them. But I moved from native android to PWA after having hellish issues with their automated developer nightmare system.
Permissions are fine, but on android they happen every single time for the same file (and there's yet no option for the 'Allow everytine' that is present on desktop chrome). This is pretty horrible UX for some use cases.
PWAs are awesome but Firefox does not support them, you can only install them with Chrome based browsers. So it is still largely Googles ecosystem and they can fuck with it like they are doing with android apps.
I didn't know this, thanks. It seems Firefox does support PWAs on Android but not on desktop: <a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Progressive_web_apps/Manifest#browser_compatibility" rel="nofollow">https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Progressive_web...
PWA support got worse on the latest android. They removed the clear "Install" button and copied iOS, that is you have to scroll down a long list and select "Add shortcut" / "Add to home screen". IIRC they removed the "install" wording.
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Now if it is plain old CRUD style application, many that are webviews packaged as APK, sure.
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