Your manifest does not currently have a display property. For further edits please open the applications windows inside a chromium browser. It will tell you exactly what you are missing. Also, the chrome lighthouse is a good tab to check for this.

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March 13, 2025 - On Android, you'll see "Add [website] to Home screen" or similar. ... Click Install. This is the left button.[7] X Research source · On Android, this button will be on the right side. ... View the app. The PWA should open automatically in a new window. This will act as its own application, separate from the Google Chrome browser.
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March 12, 2023 - To create a lite app using Chrome, go to the target website and then tap on the menu button (three dots) in the top-left corner. Now on the slide-out panel, select 'Add to Home screen.'
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No, you can't, at least not as useful PWAs.

Let's first take a look at the definition of Progressive Web Apps:

A progressive web app (PWA) is an app that's built using web platform technologies, but that provides a user experience like that of a platform-specific app.

Like a website, a PWA can run on multiple platforms and devices from a single codebase. Like a platform-specific app, it can be installed on the device, can operate while offline and in the background, and can integrate with the device and with other installed apps.

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I'll start with the "can operate while offline" specification - that is pretty much impossible to achieve on user's side with many web apps, as they rely on pulling data frequently from the internet. There are PWAs that ignore this and don't even handle lack of connection properly, but I wouldn't necessarily call them fully proper PWAs.

Then we have integration with systems. For example with notifications. This and offline handling is done with help of service workers, which you can't easily define as a user for any sort of websites either. It's also optional in theory, but if you skip such features, there's not much point of PWAs.

And lastly the most important part - ability to install it as an app on various devices. This is done by linking a manifest in the HTML, e.g.:

<link rel="manifest" href="manifest.json">

The manifest defines basic PWA info, such as icons, where the application should start, how it should be displayed, etc.

This part could perhaps be achievable by dynamically adding the tag with your own external manifest through userscript, but once again, I see no point in doing that and it's not even worth trying as adding a website to e.g. your bookmarks is basically a much more optimal equivalent.

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A PWA (Progressive Web App) is different from a website. It has to be written to be a PWA. A PWA can also be used as a webpage or website.

But you can store shortcuts to normal websites on your desktop.

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March 7, 2024 - A Chrome Canary update spotted by X user Leopeva64 (via Android Police) introduces a new “install page as app” button in the settings menu for all the websites you visit.
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March 7, 2024 - Sites that already have their own PWAs, like YouTube or Reddit, have been prompting users to install them for a while now and will have their "Install page as app…" function actually showing the name of the site. For example, YouTube's entry will show as "Install YouTube." In February, it became possible to enable the flags necessary to make any website into a PWA, but it seems to have just now become fully implemented. To enable this feature in Chrome Canary now and test it, simply install Canary and enable both of the flags below:
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March 8, 2021 - For example, Instagram does not let you upload images on its website, which means the app you create will also be similarly hamstrung. As of now, the best way to turn a website into a mobile app is an app called Hermit (Free).
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May 5, 2023 - Cool, but Chrome already do that and Android 14 will clone apps. ... Introducing WebApp – the ultimate website-to-app creator and web browser for Android! With our progressive web app (PWA) technology, you can turn any website into a fully-functional web app in just a few taps. Our lightning-fast web apps are optimized for your device's screen size, providing you with a faster, smoother, and more user-friendly browsing experience. Create as ...
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What TFA is about is about, is ... using Chrome as a browser engine, launching the website, period. Once launched into its own window, it appears to be look and function just like any app installed in the OS, but it is a remote web page in its own self-contained browser engine. There are no browser controls, only the website. (like the YouTube app on Android, according ...