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PWAs deliver what is known as “an app-like experience”—with a web browser in full-screen mode you wouldn’t even know you’re working within a website. Still, many of the benefits of using a PWA don’t have to do with their features and functionality. Native apps are still more robust and can be written for any use. But PWAs were conceived as a way to sidestep, or even eliminate, a lot of the headaches associated with native app development, and the list of reasons to use them shows this: Hassle-Free Experience. If you clicked on the game link above, you experienced just how easy it is to start using a PWA. It takes almost no effort on the user’s part to try your app out. For native apps, there are some pesky extra steps of going to the app store, finding the app, downloading, installing, and then finally using it. And that’s assuming the person already knows about their app specifically. If they’re just doing general searches for a type of app, like a game, then they’ll browse th...

Another important point to note is that the Origin Trials Framework (implemented in Chrome) enables manufacturers to expose and test hardware (or software) capabilities without having to go through the standardization process. For example, a phone maker could expose an API for reading the values of a pressure sensor, refine it, then submit it for consideration to the W3C. Anyway, access to hardware features are only a subset of what makes a great app. There are also software features traditionally employed by native apps that are now available to web apps. Traditionally native features that PWAs can also use push notifications working offline adding an icon to the home screen being installed into Android (i.e. in the apps drawer and in Settings) receiving intents triggering the native Android share dialog launching in full-screen clipboard access persistent auto-login using the Credentials Manager API hardware-accelerated 2D/3D graphics using CSS3, HTML5 Canvas or WebGL —...