# Progressive Web Apps

DevFeed: [Progressive Web Apps](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/progressive-web-apps-19450.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.codenameone.com/blog/progressive-web-apps/>)

Author: Steve Hannah

Published: 2018-01-29T00:00:00Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [CodeName One](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/codename-one.md>)

Topics: [PWA](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/pwa.md>), [Web app](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/webapp.md>), [Web Development](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/web-development.md>), [Android](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/android.md>), [Chrome](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/chrome.md>)

Tags: [android](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/android.md>), [manifest](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/manifest.md>), [offline](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/offline.md>), [pwa](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/pwa.md>), [web](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/web.md>)

## AI overview

This article explains how Codename One apps can be deployed as Progressive Web Apps. It describes browser access, home-screen installation, offline behavior, native-app installation prompts, and customization of the web app manifest through build hints.

## Source excerpt

PWAs (Progressive Web Apps) are an extremely hot topic right now, and Codename One apps are very well suited to being deployed this way. In case you haven't been following the PWA buzz, the idea is that it's a web app that behaves like a native app. When they are first loaded in a user's browser, they behave like a normal responsive web app, but users can install them to their home screen just like native apps. At which point, they can behave as "offline-first" apps. Parts of this have been available for quite some time, but the concept of PWA brings a lot of little things under a single umbrella.