Has anyone tried a PWA using TMS

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I had quotes a project based on being bale to write a PWA (using TMS webcore) so that it would work like an app on the mobiles.

When I open it in the browser on Android and Apple, I was expecting to see an install menu option in the browsers. All I can see is Save to Home Page.

  1. Is this what I use?
  2. Will it really work offline?
  3. Or am I missing something ?
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Holger Flick is probably your best source of information.

I thought he has been here occasionally … but his name doesn’t seem to come up as an ‘@’

Maybe email him direct or check a TMS forum?

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I was looking to see if anyone outside TMS had tried it.

  1. After testing on Android and iPhone, Save to Home Page is the way to do it. On Android (Brave / Firefox) it then asks if you want to install or Add a shortcut. Install works. On iPhone, just saving works.
  2. The PWA I wrote 2 years ago as a demo, works fine offline.
  3. A simple dummy one I wrote with current tools, works fine offline.
  4. A more complicated one I wrote to demo the concept to the client does not even load the first page, when offline. There are no errors, so its a bit difficult to figure out. My current suspect is that it hasn’t saved the css file or logos.

I will post on TMS forum as well.

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If it’s any help I have used TMS WEBCore for various projects including a PWA (this was a demo project, but it was a working demo).

If it’s not displaying on start-up, I am going to guess it’s something you’ve done in the app itself - the framework is pretty much the same and just does a simple wrapping with the required web worker type stuff.

If you go to the accepted answer on this question: How to view JavaScript console on Android (and iOS)? - Stack Overflow it shows you how to open the web console remotely so you can debug the mobile browser pages via your desktop - very handy to see the browser errors!

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Thanks I will have a look

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I have the Android version pretty stable now, after adding more tags to the manifest (from other websites).

I have it working on one iPhone, only after I added an icon called apple-touch. I need another iPhone 13+ to test.

Is someone wiling to test it for me please. It needs to be in Australia as it seems that, on iPhone, PWA only works in certain countries.