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I wonder if they're doing this for the Surface Duo launch.
by FiddlerClamp 6y ago
I wonder if they're doing this for the Surface Duo launch.
- judah 6y agoFair question. Certainly Microsoft wants Duo to succeed. But PWABuilder been pushing for PWAs in App Stores for years -- we also support MacOS, Samsung Galaxy Store, Microsoft Store, and others. (We're talking with Apple now to enable PWAs in iOS app store as well.) This collaboration with Google took place because Google revamped their "PWAs in the Store" story. It used to be a very basic story: a native app wrapping a web view that loads your PWA. Those worked, but didn't support some modern APIs (e.g. service worker, IIRC), didn't share cookies and login information with the browser, and other problems. Google revamped the story here to a more first-class approach for PWAs in their Store. It's called "Trusted Web Activities." And earlier this year, Google created Bubblewrap, a command line tool to generate a proper Trusted Web Activity for publishing in their Store. So we wanted to take advantage of that new and better approach. That's really our reason for collaboration here.
- pjmlp 6y agoThey already had this with Edge and Windows Store. https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/pwa/ https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/pwa/ The best part was that this way WinRT APIs are directly exposed as browser APIs, no need for hybrid solutions. This is just the next step using the Chrome based engine instead.