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My PWA's app shortcuts display an "App isn't installed" error
My PWA's app shortcuts display an "App isn't installed" error
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Written by Kevin Basset
Updated over a week ago

If you're using a PWA on a recent Android phone (built with Progressier or otherwise), you may have noticed that tapping on an app shortcut results in this error:

How can you fix the "app isn't installed" bug?

Unfortunately, you can't. It's not on you. It's not on Progressier. It's on Google. So we'll have to wait for them to fix it. Every PWA suffers from this bug.

A Chromium issue documents this. Although I'm not sure whether this is actually a Chromium bug, a Google Chrome bug, or an Android bug.

App shortcuts still work okay on desktop and on older Android phones.

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