Installation

Installation is the moment a PWA leaves the browser tab and becomes an app on the home screen, dock, or Start menu. Getting there means meeting each platform’s installability criteria, surfacing the install moment well, and — once installed — re-engaging with badges and notifications.

These entries cover what makes a PWA installable, how the install prompt works across platforms, and the UX decisions around when and how to ask.

In this section

The install promptbeforeinstallprompt, deferring and triggering install from a gesture, appinstalled, and the iOS difference.

Planned topics

Reserved in the coverage matrix and filled in over time:

• Installability criteria
• Badging
• The N+1 install problem

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