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by RetroTechie 17 days ago
Sounds like what could be a useful built-in OS feature. Along the lines of:

"Aim camera at QR code to put "open-link" icon on your home screen"

Does something like that not exist?

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Devs can pretty easily implement this on their site using the BeforeInstallPromptEvent.prompt method.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Progressive_web...

Though of course...

> This is not supported on iOS.

It could, right? But let me tell you a secret: Apple doesn't want PWAs/web apps and actively limits Safari to force developers to build apps.