Hi all,
I would like to know if there is a way to launch a PWA from another application. My usecase is as follows: I have a 'Home' application that serves as the entry point for users. The idea is that this app shows all of the other apps in a grid and the user clicks on the app that they want to navigate to. One of these apps is a PWA and I would like to launch the user to the installed version of the app if they already have it installed.
I can get it to work on desktop using a protocol handler in the manifest, but this does not seem to work for iOS and Android. As far as I can tell I will need to setup intent filters to use deeplinks in the AndroidManifest.xml file. But a PWA does not have such a file.
Does anyone know of a way to get around this issue?
Kind regards
A PWA is essentially a webapp. Tou can try to redirect to the PWA Url. If its on android you can set the pwa to open the link as default if installed.
Hope that helps
Subu
Hi Subu,
Thank you for responding!
That is exactly what I am struggling with. I can make it open just the URL and on desktop I can make it open the installed app because I added the protocol handler for it. The issue is that android does not seem to work with the protocol handler and I do not know how to set the PWA so that it opens the app if it is already installed on android.
Since you are building a Home App that launches multiple apps, you can make the PWA a Native mobile app via MABS.