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> Truthfully, I'd prefer to get rid of the app and just have users go to the website and install the PWA, but the average user still doesn't know how to do this

> Truthfully, I'd prefer to get rid of the app and just have users go to the website and install the PWA, but the average user still doesn't know how to do this. And the Play Store is still the first place users go to find apps. If google would just allow submitting a PWA directly to the app store, that'd be nice... I am not looking forward to doing this yearly. This is what Trusted Web Activities (TWA) are for, you can use it to list PWAs in the Play Store without frameworks like Cordova https://rangle.io/blog/publishing-a-web-app-to-the-play-store-using-trusted-web-activities-twa https://rangle.io/blog/publishing-a-web-app-to-the-play-stor... https://developers.google.com/codelabs/pwa-in-play#0 https://developers.google.com/codelabs/pwa-in-play#0

modeless 3y ago
My TWA app still got hit with this mandatory update requirement. I'll have to rebuild the wrapper app for the first time in years. I don't even remember how I did it last time but I do remember that Android makes it nowhere near as trivial as it ought to be. I can practically guarantee that something will break if I try to do all this busywork. I'm probably not going to bother, it's just a free app that I made as a side project and a large majority of users visit the website in a browser. If Google actually cared about getting PWAs into the store, the process would be as simple as submitting the URL of your PWA manifest to the Play Console.
- sexy_seedbox 3y ago
  > If Google actually cared... Oh, I can say that about a LOT of other Google products.