to add detail: a major chromium implementation with the largest global user base on mobile, *does not support extensions*; behind all of its peers.
given this limitation, it strikes me as very important to get IWA onto chromium / mobile -- although I'm not sure this comment is on-topic as blink isn't opinionated. + I can only imagine the 'Jerry vs Anil' battles happening internally at these organizations. so if possible please keep us in the loop on IWA-install / discovery design docs so the community can try to replicate them on mobile -- if there's interest. 🙏 On Thursday, September 7, 2023 at 10:36:20 AM UTC-4 polyset wrote: > On Tuesday, August 29, 2023 at 1:22:35 PM UTC-4 rei...@chromium.org wrote: > > Supporting Android is not on our near-term roadmap > > > > after digging into the following working-groups: TWA, Payment Handler API, > and the Digital Goods API I believe there is a path for IWA on mobile; yet > due to security concerns from the community (especially mozilla) it will > likely need to be wrapped in a TWA. Unfortunately, when using a devx lens > this would be a step backwards. Developers want to develop on a platform > freely available to everyone. That platform is the web. When we require > them to juggle myriad tools (e.g., trusted-web-activity, bubblewrap, > play-store, CustomTabsIntent) to do something simple (i.e., socket()), they > will look elsewhere. > > I do want to point out the irony of our situation: on *mobile*, the > platform soon to be used by every human on the planet, will not have IWAs! > However I do understand and appreciate how we got here and why we don't (or > won't) have it. Onward with desktop IWAs! > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "blink-dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to blink-dev+unsubscr...@chromium.org. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/d/msgid/blink-dev/25420925-7dbf-4ceb-8720-ca1de6d7f9f6n%40chromium.org.
