harisadam / pwa-install

Installation dialog for Progressive Web Application. Provides a more convenient user experience and fixes the lack of native dialogs in some browsers.

<pwa-install>

Installation dialog for Progressive web application. Provides more convenience user experience and fix lack of native dialogs in some browsers. 13.5kB brotli compressed bundle. Translation/localization is supported.

Use it as Web Component with any modern framework. No polyfill is required.

Gallery

iOS default	Install instruction	App gallery

iPadOS

Android	App gallery	White theme

Chrome	App Gallery

Install

npm i @khmyznikov/pwa-install

Alternatively, you can use unpkg.

Import

import '@khmyznikov/pwa-install';

Use

<pwa-install></pwa-install>

Demo

Supported params

<pwa-install
  manual-apple="true"
  manual-chrome="true"
  disable-chrome="true"

  install-description="Custom call to install text"
  disable-install-description="true"

  manifest-url="/manifest.json"
  name="PWA"
  description="Progressive web application"         
  icon="/icon.png">
</pwa-install>
<!-- 
  manual-apple/chrome params means you want to show the Dialog manually by showDialog().
  disable-chrome param is for completely disabling custom logic and interception for Chominum browsers (will work built-in browser logic).
--->

Make a good manifest file and don't use name/descr/icon params. Boolean attributes needs to be removed to act like "false"

Supported events

• pwa-install-success-event
• pwa-install-fail-event
• pwa-install-available-event
• pwa-user-choice-result-event

<script type="text/javascript">
  var pwaInstall = document.getElementsByTagName('pwa-install')[0];

  pwaInstall.addEventListener('pwa-install-success-event', (event) => {console.log(event.detail.message)});
</script>

⚠️ success/fail/choice events is Chromium only, iOS don't have them.

Supported properties (readonly)

• userChoiceResult: string;
• isDialogHidden: boolean
• isInstallAvailable: boolean
• isAppleMobilePlatform: boolean
• isUnderStandaloneMode: boolean
• isRelatedAppsInstalled: boolean

<script type="text/javascript">
  var pwaInstall = document.getElementsByTagName('pwa-install')[0];

  console.log(pwaInstall.isUnderStandaloneMode);
</script>

Supported methods

• install
• hideDialog
• showDialog
• getInstalledRelatedApps: async

<script type="text/javascript">
  var pwaInstall = document.getElementsByTagName('pwa-install')[0];

  pwaInstall.install();
</script>

getInstalledRelatedApps is Chromium only, always empty on iOS.

Supported localization

At this time EN, RU, TR, DE and ES languages available. Language should change automatically based on browser settings. Please create the pull-request if you want to help with translation to your language. It's an easy process.

Contribution Guidelines

ROADMAP

• style customization