Karen Rudnitski [:kar] Reporter
	Description • 9 years ago

Bug ???

**Requirements:**

- Support of W3C web manifest

**User Stories (all platforms, from** [https://etherpad.mozilla.org/web-app-discovery)](https://etherpad.mozilla.org/web-app-discovery))

- As a user I want to be informed when the current web page is part of a web app I can install so I can benefit from a richer app-like experience

- As a user I want to launch a web app from an icon on my homescreen/launcher/dock/start menu and use it separately from the browser

- As a user I want to switch between web apps using my operating system's task manager

- As a user I want to seamlessly link between web app windows and browser tabs

- As a user I want to persist this site/app to my device and use it even while offline

- As an app developer I want to get my app discovered via web searches because it currently gets buried in app stores across Firefox OS & Firefox

- As an app developer I want to deep link into my app from web search results so that I can drive users to my app via its content

- As an app developer I want to create repeat engagement with my app by adding it to a user's homescreen

- As an app developer I want to create repeat engagement with my app via push notifications

 

Additional info:

- [https://infrequently.org/2015/06/progressive-apps-escaping-tabs-without-losing-our-soul/](https://infrequently.org/2015/06/progressive-apps-escaping-tabs-without-losing-our-soul/)
- Despite the "add to homescreen" functionality being fairly hidden in Fennec,  ~1% of users were finding it and making use of it. Google  provided us numbers that, when a user is able to add a web site to the home screen, engagement with that site raises significantly
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Example service worker apps:

By Paul Lewis at Google  
 [https://guitar-tuner.appspot.com/](https://guitar-tuner.appspot.com/)  
src = [https://github.com/GoogleChrome/guitar-tuner](https://github.com/GoogleChrome/guitar-tuner)

By MDN  
 [https://mdn.github.io/sw-test/](https://mdn.github.io/sw-test/)  
src = [https://github.com/mdn/sw-test/](https://github.com/mdn/sw-test/)

Google reference apps:  
 [https://jakearchibald.github.io/isserviceworkerready/resources.html#reference-apps](https://jakearchibald.github.io/isserviceworkerready/resources.html#reference-apps)

	Bill Walker [:bwalker] [@wfwalker]
	Comment 1 • 9 years ago

It would be good to track the appropriate Web Push and Service Worker bugs here, too.

	addyosmani
	Comment 2 • 8 years ago

Afaik, relevant bugs for Web Push https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1038811 & meta bug for Service Workers https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=903441. 

SO stoked to see y'all tracking Progressive apps support here.

	Marco Castelluccio [:marco]
	Comment 3 • 8 years ago

Could some of this work be part of the GSoC? https://wiki.mozilla.org/Community:SummerOfCode16:Brainstorming#Firefox_for_Android

	Ritu Kothari (:ritu) (Inactive, please n-i to RyanVM, jcristau, or pascal)
	Comment 4 • 6 years ago

Added to Fennec 58 release notes.

	BMO Automation
	Comment 5 • 3 years ago

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