


This makes it much easier to understand what an app will actually achieve for you on your phone. Other than the icon preview, developers can now also add a few lines of app description to the prompt along with screenshots showcasing different capabilities of the web app in question. The new prompt shows up as a card sliding up from the bottom, with a more fitting “Install” button that makes it clear that web apps are similar to native apps. Google has announced its new “Richer Install UI” that looks a lot more like the familiar Play Store cards that show up when you want to install an Android app via a deep link from a website or Google search result ( via About Chromebooks). When you tap the install button in Chrome’s overflow menu or in the bottom toast that some websites show you, you get a generic “Add to home screen” popup with a small preview of the app icon and the option to proceed or cancel. Usually, web app installation is as rudimentary as it gets.
