I have converted my website into a PWA. Right now when the users visit my website they get an install prompt on the browser's search bar on the desktop device and on the mobile device screen, add to home screen prompt appears. What I want is to create an external link for the PWA for the respective devices, which one shared over any messaging system or email will directly let the users install the PWA on their devices. Or, I can create a button on a webpage that on click lets users install the PWA. Please guide me if it is possible by any chance.
Right now, one way that I have figured out is to publish it on the play store or apple store and then share the link. But I want to upload it to cloud storage like Google Drive/Dropbox, etc. and share the link.
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I built a website with reactjs and the client wants that the web automatically creates a link on the phone home screen that opens chrome to the specific url of my website.
Is this possible without wrapping the reactjs with another framework like Cordoba, Ionic or React Native?
Thank you so much
A web application has no access to the device's internal APIs. Web applications are naturally subject to the browser's features, restrictions and limitations in which it is running on. Even native applications has to request access from the user to have such permissions. What your client asks is, regretably, impossible.
I agree with the above answer by #Lux Ilustre. You can't add the application link to the phones homepage without the users permission. But it is possible to make your website installable with a PWA. You can create a PWA with a manifest file and a service-worker file which makes possible to install the website to the users phone and load assets from cache which makes it possible to make some parts of your website function offline.
I have Apple ID. When I am trying to Send IOS app store build in MAC system, I am getting Build Error.
I have created certificates for this, might be this step leads to error{ created certificate with device UDID}.
Please help me on how to create certificates and send IOS store build.
Thanks in advance.
you can directly this all features directly by using netbean. There is wizard "Generate" for ios from which you can create development certificate as well as provision profile. You can also add devices by using the wizard in ios tab.
Some mobile website will recommend you install some app, I think it's just bring out the app information if detected you are using mobile device, but some website will note bring out the information if you already installed the app, how to do that?
You can store information in a database, a cookie, the localStorage or a native app. Let's suppose that you have a FooInstalled which might be null or true. You prompt your user to install foo and when you see it was installed, you set FooInstalled to true. Later, when he visits your site, you read FooInstalled from your database/cookie/localStorage/native app storage and see that it is true. So you don't ask your user to install foo.
Suppose I have a video hosting site, like youtube. When user clicks on a link on the site, I want to open a WinRT application for a better viewing experience, how would I do that?
How do I pass parameters into the WinRT application, to let it know what video it should stream? I need to be able to go back and forth, so I assume I can introduce a hyperlink to go back to the site from the app.
The other possibility is to embed the application on the site itself. How would that work? Can you still inline an applet style application on the site itself (eg. flash/silverlight)?
It is possible to launch a Windows Store app, given that you know the URI scheme associated with that application. For example, the Games app has the xboxgames: associated with it. If you insert a link with that URI scheme, the shell will pick it up as an internal reference. Read more details here.
You might also be interested in reading more on how to connect your website to a Windows Store app here.
Edit: It is possible to have an associated url: see accepted answer from Den Delimarsky.
Alternatively, a Windows Store app can declare file type associations. So you could make the user download a file (for example "video.customExtension"), which could contain informations, such as the video the app should play. In the same way as it works for Office Live Meeting when you download a meeting file to start a meeting.
If the user download that kind of file from your website, and that he doesn't have the corresponding app installed, he will be prompted to look for an app that can open that file in the store, and he will find your app.
And finally, no you can't embbed an Windows 8 Store app in a webpage.
Please help me with one thing: I need to be able to forward a bada device to a certain application store page. This page should let the device to install the application using its native installation method, just like Android market or iTunes.
Granted that I know the link to my application on the web, where do I get the link to forward the device to?
I've tried to use the simulator's WebViewer application on the Samsung Apps site, but it can't even find the application that I want to link to.
please take a look at the links below.
using the namespace Osp::Commerce::Store, you can call the Samsung Apps within the app and encourage users to install apps via Samsung Apps. Hope it works for you.
http://developer.bada.com/article/Try-Purchase-using-In-App-Purchase
http://developer.bada.com/article/Implementation-Guide-for-Samsung-Apps-Try-and-Purchase-Feature