I still don't get homescreen apps. When I put a bookmark on my home screen, it just open safari to that page. It's not it's own app, all the other tabs are still there. /confused
It depends on how the app is written I guess. For example, make a bookmark of this demo PWA app on your homescreen https://airhorner.com. Notice that it opens itself in a full screen mode, no safari controls are shown.
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Wow, this was the ELI5 article that worked for me. Now I finally get it for the context of homescreen apps.
I still don't get homescreen apps. When I put a bookmark on my home screen, it just open safari to that page. It's not it's own app, all the other tabs are still there. /confused
It depends on how the app is written I guess. For example, make a bookmark of this demo PWA app on your homescreen https://airhorner.com. Notice that it opens itself in a full screen mode, no safari controls are shown.
Thanks! that's neat.
I found this:
https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Ap...
You need to put special markup in your HTML (and maybe some specific JS) for it to behave like an app and hide the tab bar.