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by teki_one 855 days ago
I think Android already allowed that 7+ years ago: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2017/10/progressive-web-apps-firef...
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Ok so I guess Android has some sort of API for allowing an app to install additional icons on the desktop with specific parameters like a shortcut and it shows the icon with a little icon representing the parent app, makes sense.

So if you install a PWA from Firefox it runs in Firefox and from Chrome it runs in Chrome similar to desktops. Looking at it this way I could see Apple doing something similar with less effort than trying to standardize a web view API and have PWA use the "system default browser".