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Publish Your PWAs to the iOS App Store

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  1. An open source native runtime that makes it easy to build cross-platform apps that run equally well on iOS, Android, and the Web.
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    • Open Source

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  2. https://webtoapp.design turns websites into apps automatically. The apps work without an internet connection, show changes to your website whenever you change it and they follow design guidelines for apps, so they get accepted into the app stores.
    Disclosure: I operate a similar but commercial service at https://webtoapp.design Whether your webview app will get published in the app store depends on how "app-like" your PWA looks and if you get a strict app reviewer. I instead add native components to the apps I create to make sure they look more like an app, which works well to get the app approved by Apple. From my experience, push notifications are a very important feature too, almost all of my customers want that. I haven't found a way to reroute browser notifications to the app, so instead I use firebase to let my customers send notifications.

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  3. Compatibility tables for support of HTML5, CSS3, SVG and more in desktop and mobile browsers.
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    • Open Source
    This seems easy to solve given Apple's rejection of PWA support in Safari, just add a feature that doesn't matter much, like an <i>(opt-in!)</i> notification on updates. Safari (and therefore all browsers) on iOS don't support notifications, so you're doing something you couldn't do from the website. https://caniuse.com/?search=notifications.

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