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Most frequently asked questions in PWA

Nishant Contractor on February 06, 2020

I am writing this blog to share my findings on a question that I had during the developments of PWA. I went through many blogs and tutorials for th...
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Victorio Berra

Notifications are the biggest gripe right now. I wish LocalNotifications API just worked out of the box without any need for complicated Google services. they don't even seem to work on non-pwas on mobile.

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Mustafa ilker Sarac • Edited

Great article, it served well for almost 4 years but it might need an update though. Starting with push notifications, ios is claimed to be supporting web-push now.
developer.apple.com/documentation/...
qvik.com/news/web-push-notificatio...

This is a great site for demoing some of the PWA features.
whatpwacando.today/

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Anwar • Edited

Chrome 80+ support the Contact Picker API which can help you access the contact list of a smartphone πŸ˜‰

web.dev/contact-picker/

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Nishant Contractor

Thanks for share, it will be very helpful to us.

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Alexandre Borel

Nice post !

Why not talking about the App Store support ? You can now publish PWA on Play Store (idk about Apple Store)

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Nishant Contractor

Thanks for read.
Will try to cover this topic in our future blogs.

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Usman Khalil

Wow, great checklist.

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Nishant Contractor

Your words motivates us.
Thanks..

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Umang

How Can PWA access the phone’s GPS? Please share any API or reference link for accessing GPS location via offline using PWA

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nouman shah

How can we prevent PWA from refreshing?
I have created a PWA Chat App. The App refreshes the page after uploading a photo using a mobile Camera and also, reloads after switching between apps.