Chrome OS Replacing Some Android Apps with Web Apps
Google has started prioritizing Progressive Web Apps (PWA) over Android apps in Google Play Store for Chromebooks. As spotted by Chrome Unboxed, Twitter and YouTube Television receiver are the first ii apps to make this move.
Always since its inception, Chrome OS was criticized for the lack of compatible apps. While the platform managed to bridge the gap somehow with support for Android and Linux apps, PWA reduces the reliability on the platform and gives an optimized user experience.
If you're interested to endeavour out Twitter and YouTube Goggle box PWAs on your Chromebook, all you lot accept to do is visit the Play Store, search for the app, and hit on Install. Other PWAs should be accessed simply like before for now.
It is worth noting that PWAs have been around for a while. The divergence now is that it will be installed by default when you try installing a compatible app from Google Play Store.
As people are used to installing apps from defended app stores, this would help increase the adoption of PWAs and might encourage developers to piece of work on PWA versions for their services, if they don't exist just nevertheless.
While Twitter PWA was spotted by Chrome Unboxed, the beingness of YouTube TV PWA on Play Store was brought to attention by Dominick Ng, lead/managing director on Chrome Bone Apps Platform, spider web apps/PWAs. "Information technology is so gratifying to see a) our strategy then clearly understood, and b) some of the most challenging and satisfying engineering work I've always done make it out to the world.", he said.
We could expect more PWAs to be the default choices on Google Play Store at present that the software giant has finally embraced the applied science and has started pushing it to the masses.
Source: https://beebom.com/chrome-os-replacing-android-apps-pwa/
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