Progressive Web Apps (or PWA for short) combine the advantages of on-device mobile app experience with the distribution simplicity offered by regular web applications. The latest version of Oracle Visual Builder offers a very easy way to create and distribute your PWAs in a visual cloud development environment.
PWA apps can work offline, leverage device features such as access to the camera, photo gallery, and location information. The app is downloaded to the device, represented as an icon on the device list of apps, and when it is invoked you don’t see a browser wrapper (no address bar and browser navigation buttons). As such the user experience of working with such application is very close to applications that you get from the app store.
A key difference between PWA and on-device mobile apps is the distribution mechanism. To first “install” the application the user will navigate to a URL using their browser, this will pop-up an option for them to “add the application to home screen”. Once they do this the app is now part of their “apps list” on the device. When a new version of the app is published, the end user doesn’t need to go to the app store to download it. The application will automatically update on the device the next time you’ll open it. Pulling the new UI from the server and caching it for future use. Read the complete article here.
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