silvanmelchior / RPi_Cam_Web_Interface

A web interface for the RPi Cam
MIT License
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Add PWA ability to the app #612

Open sensboston opened 3 years ago

sensboston commented 3 years ago

PWA (Progressive Web App) it's a really useful feature on phones and tablets. When you pinned web page with PWA features to your phone home screen, it will start in separate browser instance, without address bar, menus etc. Also, it will not be added (and mess) to the browser's opened tabs.

I'll be glad to add this feature by myself and issue a PR to you guys, but I got stuck 😟 I tried to follow some internet manuals (useless): played with web manifests etc. & so on but nothing works for me. However, I do have a small web app running on RPi (for direct control my home automation - usually lights) using Apache, and it behaves as PWA without manifest (at least, in separate, specific file). I attached that app to this feature request: X10.zip

P.S. Even if you don't want to add this feature to your project, could you please guide me (if you know how)? I'd love to have PWA on my small project (based on RPi_Cam_Web_Interface).