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Deeply Integrated Progressive Web Apps (WebAPKs) are Live for Chrome on Android
Deeply integrated Progressive Web Apps (WebAPKs) are already live for Chrome on Android. Here is how to enable the feature.
For most of Android's history, applications have been installed as local packages on the device itself. We typically acquire the installation files we need by downloading an APK file, which is an archive containing all of an application's resources and assets. While there are many benefits to installing a native application this way, there are also many benefits to developing an application that is web based. Web applications can be accessed on multiple platforms, can be easily modified, and can be readily deployed among other benefits.