It appears that Microsoft and Google are teaming up to improve the progressive web application (PWA) experience on all devices, including Android.
The move was confirmed in a post on Medium by Judah Gabriel Himango from Microsoft, in collaboration with the hope of improving the way web applications run on Android, desktop, tablet, and more. This is the right time with Microsoft’s first Android device, the Surface Duo, which will arrive later this year.
We are pleased to announce a new collaboration between Microsoft and Google for the benefit of the web developer community. Microsoft’s PWABuilder and Google’s Bubblewrap are now working together to help developers publish PWAs to the Google Play Store.
Web applications built with Google’s Bubblewrap and Microsoft’s PWABuilder tool will soon be able to take advantage of new features, including notification features, and things like extended long-press functions or web shortcuts.
Converting a website to a PWA and improved controls and app-like functionality, coupled with the closest association, publishing to the Google Play Store, is now even easier than ever. Web developers can use pwabuilder.com and export APK packages that can then be uploaded to the Google Play Store. When installed on Android, any shortcut you can implement will work as expected by long pressing the start icon on your smartphone.
In addition to the above, we are also collaborating with Google on the Fugu Project to incubate new features of the web platform, with PWA front and center, towards the goal of standardization so that everyone benefits. We’ve highlighted some Project Fugu capabilities in our web platform demo showcase.
In addition to this drive to improve PWAs on the web and the Google Play Store, Microsoft and Google are partnering with Project Fugu to incubate new features of the web platform: PWAs are also a central advocate in this parallel collaboration. You can now start in PWABuilder.
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