Now it's super-easy to write a PWA for EWB.

Create programs people can have on their desktop, laptop, tables and many phones.

Full source code is provided at the bottom of the post.

https://www.erickengelke.com/posts/post60.html

Post here if you have questions.  Most questions appear to be OS specific, and it may take a community effort to answer them.

Erick
EWB Programming Books and Nice Component Library
See my EWB BLOG posts, at:
http://www.erickengelke.com

erickengelke wrote:
> Post here if you have questions.  Most questions appear to be OS specific, and it may take a community effort to answer them.

I've added a "install" button which shows for Chrome and certain other browsers, simplifying installation.

Erick
EWB Programming Books and Nice Component Library
See my EWB BLOG posts, at:
http://www.erickengelke.com

Thanks Erick, this will come in handy!

I did try your install, and it all works fine.

Note that your URL link appears to be incorrect. It should be "https://www.eng.uwaterloo.ca/~erick/pwa/" as on the image.

.. Bruno


erickengelke wrote:

erickengelke wrote:
> Post here if you have questions.  Most questions appear to be OS specific, and it may take a community effort to answer them.

I've added a "install" button which shows for Chrome and certain other browsers, simplifying installation.

Erick
EWB Programming Books and Nice Component Library
See my EWB BLOG posts, at:
http://www.erickengelke.com

Bruno Larochelle wrote:

> Thanks Erick, this will come in handy!

Glad to hear.

>Note that your URL link appears to be incorrect. It should be "https://www.eng.uwaterloo.ca/~erick/pwa/" as on the image.

I've updated the page.  The tilde (~) gets removed by the editor/converter when it converts to HTML.

Erick
EWB Programming Books and Nice Component Library
See my EWB BLOG posts, at:
http://www.erickengelke.com

erickengelke wrote:

erickengelke wrote:
> Post here if you have questions.  Most questions appear to be OS specific, and it may take a community effort to answer them.

I've added a "install" button which shows for Chrome and certain other browsers, simplifying installation.

That worked very well! I tried to implement it yesterday and it looks very good on iPhone at least. For your information, the "install" button does not work on ios, but after reading a bit about it, it is not possible from what I can find out.

Br
Eivind

Eivind wrote:

erickengelke wrote:

>> I've added a "install" button which shows for Chrome and certain other browsers, simplifying installation.

> That worked very well! I tried to implement it yesterday and it looks very good on iPhone at least. For your information, the "install" button does not work on ios, but after reading a bit about it, it is not possible from what I can find out.

Apparently, Apple doesn't like PWAs, so yes they do not include easy installation, and you cannot market a PWA on the Apple store like you can the Google store (for a fee).   

I read, but have not confirmed, that Apple prohibits Chrome and other browsers from supporting PWAs on iOS.

BTW, the best PWA I've used is www.photopea.com, which is a mostly complete free clone of Adobe's Photoshop.  Highly recommended.

Erick
EWB Programming Books and Nice Component Library
See my EWB BLOG posts, at:
http://www.erickengelke.com

Wow, thanks!