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I shipped a PWA in the Play Store. Guess what? It still got delisted because I didn't update to the latest API level or whatever. Unfortunately you can't just
by modeless 2y ago
I shipped a PWA in the Play Store. Guess what? It still got delisted because I didn't update to the latest API level or whatever.
Unfortunately you can't just ship a PWA with no wrapper. You have to build a special wrapper app that hosts the PWA and you have to use Android Studio and Gradle and all that crap.
Updating the wrapper is surely still easier than a whole app, but it's nontrivial and it's frustrating to still have to deal with the platform BS for a pure web app that uses no platform APIs at all. More work than I wanted to deal with for a hobby project, anyway.
- afavour 2y ago> Unfortunately you can't just ship a PWA with no wrapper. You can… but it won’t be in the Play Store. Disqualifying for many, but not all.
- gnarbarian 2y agothis is what I do. are you really any more discoverable there? I don't think so.
- modeless 2y agoI got a significant number of installs and I didn't do any promotion. People also directly requested an "app" and this satisfies them a lot more than a lecture on the steps to install a PWA.