Samsung is Bringing Progressive Web Apps to the Galaxy Store

Progressive Web Apps take been effectually for quite some time, and they're really pretty useful. Companies have been making PWAs for quite some fourth dimension, and browsers have added deeper support for them. Apple added support for progressive web apps in iOS 11.3, Firefox added support in version 58 of its Android app, and services like Twitter have had a PWA for quite some time.

Samsung has also been making PWAs more accessible to users, and had earlier started showing a 'download' icon in the URL bar of its "Samsung Internet" browser on smartphones to let users know that the website they're on has a progressive spider web app that they can install on their phone. The company even invested in infrastructure to make PWAs installable as native apps on Samsung's smartphones.

Icon to signify a PWA in the Samsung Internet browser

Now, in a step to make progressive spider web apps even more universal and broad-spread, Samsung is placing them right aslope native Android apps within the Galaxy Store. The change is currently merely available in the Galaxy Store for the United States, merely the visitor has said that it volition curl out the feature to other markets afterward.

If you have a progressive web app for your service, y'all can request Samsung to add it to the US Galaxy Shop past simply sending an email with the URL to your PWA to pwasupport@samsung.com

Then what do y'all think of this change fabricated to the Galaxy Store by Samsung? Have you lot used progressive web apps earlier? If not, you should cheque them out, they tin be actually handy.