Android version of DuckDuckGo as well.

push notifications are still very possible with a PWA, we just haven't done them because we don't want to

Thanks! I'll add this.

oh cool I didn't know this!

Vivaldi as well!

I have an Android and it's "Install App" for me, which I overlooked two or three times!

This is what I do too!
Slight caveats to them:

• Doesn't work for accounts that require logging in (effectively only public accounts can be RSS'd)
• No RSS feed of your home feed (see above)
• Asks aren't included for context, so chosters look like they are yelling into the void unprompted (this has been reported)
• Only shows the latest post in a rechosted thread

If I ever figure out how RSS-Bridge works I do plan on adding Cohost support so that it expands on the original feeds if available, and fixes the issues above.

Unfortunately not, I'm not on Android and was just following the operations of someone who did this.

Could try clearing the Firefox app cache and redoing it. What phone/launcher is this on?

it'll only be on your home screen, don't do the grab and drop thing, just press he automatically install button, it's worked more often for me (though rn both work, Android 14, Nova Lauvcher). It also might not have an icon, for some reason it shows up blank for me, but most launchers let you replace single icons with any image file

hello, i had the exact same issue:
i'm using a realme device with realmeUI 4.0 based on android 13

the firefox web apps i installed on my home screen only appeared after installing a system update (though i don't think it's related to a specific update, or maybe it's not related to updates at all, maybe you only need to reboot your phone)

realme and oneplus are both subsidiaries of oppo, so realmeUI and oxygenOS are basically different coats of paint of the same thing, so this might work for you too

Try to use Firefox Nightly, I had issues with the stable version that didn't appear in Nightly

a lot of apps are, they just carry around another rendering engine because ???.

good news for computer users: PWAs are becoming a thing on most desktop OSs (Linux needs a browser that supports it, like Edge, Mac OS coming next version, I assume Edge already does PWAs there as well). I do not endorse Edge as a general purpose web browser on any OS.

On iOS for me if I hold on any image it offers me a “save to photos” which works successfully. How’s it missing for you I wonder?

It depends on how "rich" chrome decides to make the "installation experience". Which is mostly based on how some stuff with a specific file (manifest) is set up.

Basically, don't worry about it. It should work, the same.

A lot of us don't have the capacity to just "learn how to use our phones" to a greater degree, though. I know a lot about how to use my phone, but I also know there's a lot I don't know because I don't know how to learn about something I have no way of knowing exists. I wouldn't have thought about my phone being able to effectively make a pseudo app out of a website because previously I knew of apps and websites and just accepted when something didn't have an app. Most of the time with technology, I tend to accept when it can't do the thing I want it to do, unless it's making it exceedingly difficult to use the device in the first place.

Being disabled makes it a little difficult to learn technology as well, because it's a constant flood of new knowledge and if I'm too foggy to remember some foundational piece, which frequently happens, it all falls apart and I can't figure out what to do. I say this as someone who comes from a family of extremely software and hardware savvy people, half of whom work (or retired after a career of working) in tech, I tried so hard to absorb all of this stuff but I also do not have someone teaching me how to use the phone I might not even have in a year or two because of planned obsolescence and predatory phone deals.

Which is to say... Yes. We all have to learn at some point, from somewhere, and there are quite a few of us who don't have easy access to a patient teacher who can explain things so simply. Some of us may need to be able to read instead of hear the instructions, or may need to be able to reference something repeatedly. It may seem basic to you, but there are also things I consider basic that many other people don't know, yourself included in some cases I imagine. At least the folks thanking Erika for this are making an effort to do exactly what you just said, learn how to use our phones. So laughing at us for doing exactly the thing you want us to do is.... Counterproductive. 🙂

Many people might not realize that it hides the browser stuff too though, and think it just opens the browser to that site

Oooh, I'll need this for managing my SFW side of Twitter, the Kiwi browser (that supports chrome extensions) doesn't have a browser profiles option, and I don't like to use the actual app for this reason.

Thanks!

ive been having the same thing with the pseudo-app, glad someone else has too. the keyboard works in firefox itself so i'm not sure what the difference would be 🤔

It works shockingly well. I don't know why though. If I do this with another website like Kiranico it just opens the page in Safari. Not sure what wizardry the devs are doing to get it to act like an app.

Are you using firefox?

Companies can set it up to send you to the Play store if they want, but they can also use it for it's main purpose, which is this.

Also the team is four people and it would take more than that to maintain an iOS, Android, and web experience that is consistent across the board.

https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/e9houb/cant_add_page_shortcut_to_home_on_android/ has a few people appearing to have the same issue, it looks like it might be an issue with your app launcher if you've switched to a different one than the default Android one, or it might be a permissions issue (one of the comments explains how to check that).