I built a PWA and published it in 3 app stores heres what I learned

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  • Original article from Apr 26, 2018, and it's here with comments:

    https://medium.com/free-code-camp/i-built-a-pwa-and-publishe...

    What has changed since, is that https://www.pwabuilder.com also has template for iOS App Store app, etc. But I have not tried that iOS template yet, publishing to iOS requires so many more steps.

    I'm maintainer of WeKan Open Source kanban https://wekan.github.io , source code for all platforms at https://github.com/wekan/wekan .

    I created PWA apps for Play Store, Windows Desktop MS Store, and Ubuntu Touch OpenStore. In my experience, publishing to Play Store and MS Store required payment. Publishing to OpenStore was free.

    Links to PWA apps here:

    https://github.com/wekan/wekan/wiki/Browser-compatibility-ma...

    Easiest was to OpenStore. No payment required. Source code here:

    https://github.com/wekan/wekan-openstore

    In that Open Store app, no need to compile anything. It's just plain text, HTML, etc. URL to website is here:

    https://github.com/wekan/wekan-openstore/blob/master/wekan.d...

    If PWA app is not in some store, or WeKan (or other) app is self-hosted, it's possible to create app icon this way:

    https://github.com/wekan/wekan/wiki/PWA

    Additionally, PWA app requires web.manifest textfile, different icon sizes for different app stores, those files are at root of PWA website like https://app.example.com/web.manifest , like these files here:

    https://github.com/wekan/wekan/tree/master/public

  • wekan-openstore

    Wekan https://wekan.github.io https://github.com/wekan/wekan webapp at OpenStore https://open-store.io/app/wekan.wekanteam of Ubuntu Touch https://ubports.com . Made with HTML template of https://clickable-ut.dev/en/latest/ and tested on RasPi3 https://ci.ubports.com/job/rootfs/job/rootfs-rpi/

  • Original article from Apr 26, 2018, and it's here with comments:

    https://medium.com/free-code-camp/i-built-a-pwa-and-publishe...

    What has changed since, is that https://www.pwabuilder.com also has template for iOS App Store app, etc. But I have not tried that iOS template yet, publishing to iOS requires so many more steps.

    I'm maintainer of WeKan Open Source kanban https://wekan.github.io , source code for all platforms at https://github.com/wekan/wekan .

    I created PWA apps for Play Store, Windows Desktop MS Store, and Ubuntu Touch OpenStore. In my experience, publishing to Play Store and MS Store required payment. Publishing to OpenStore was free.

    Links to PWA apps here:

    https://github.com/wekan/wekan/wiki/Browser-compatibility-ma...

    Easiest was to OpenStore. No payment required. Source code here:

    https://github.com/wekan/wekan-openstore

    In that Open Store app, no need to compile anything. It's just plain text, HTML, etc. URL to website is here:

    https://github.com/wekan/wekan-openstore/blob/master/wekan.d...

    If PWA app is not in some store, or WeKan (or other) app is self-hosted, it's possible to create app icon this way:

    https://github.com/wekan/wekan/wiki/PWA

    Additionally, PWA app requires web.manifest textfile, different icon sizes for different app stores, those files are at root of PWA website like https://app.example.com/web.manifest , like these files here:

    https://github.com/wekan/wekan/tree/master/public

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