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How to publish a PWA on the Google Play store

Georgi Yanev on June 30, 2019

If you are into web development you might have heard the term Progressive Web App (PWA). It has been floating around for quite a while now and is d...
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Stefan Dorresteijn • Edited

Microsoft's PWABuilder is pretty good for those last couple steps as well, and has functionality for every platform

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Georgi Yanev

Nice! Thanks for sharing :)

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AVI

What happens when we launch an update (to the JS assets etc)? For example if I’m using staleWhileRevalidate strategy for the main app.js file, will this APK keep updating as the browser app would or would we need to launch different versions of the APK for updates?

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Georgi Yanev

Any updates to your live pwa are automatically picked up, you don't have to redeploy a new apk.

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Mike CK

This is very comprehensive and simple to follow through.

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Georgi Yanev

Thanks, happy to hear it:)

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Adekanmbi Adewale

Please, i have tried it but i could not understand how i can publish a PWA on the Google Play store. Kindly please assist me to publish it. You can reply me with iclasspeoplemeet@gmail.com. Thanks

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Joak

Second question... In the Play Store I have the version number 1, it's built with Java/Eclipse(many years ago), I have the new version(PWA), can I replace the new version in the Play Store ? or I have to delete the first version in the play store?

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Eugene Karataev

Thanks for the post! Is there any chance to upload PWA to the AppStore? 🤔

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Georgi Yanev

Not yet.

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All Blog Things • Edited

Well, I just installed PWA Plugin for my website AllBlogThings.com and it works like a champ, I will try to upload it on Play Store too. Its crazy.

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Joak

Hi, I download the 4.1 Android Studio version , the option Build-Generate bundle/APK not exist, where can I find it?

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artka54

You can use bubblewrap npm package to build APK. Works for me like a charm!