PWA(Progressive Web App) - Launch PWA from Windows UWP application

manpreet Best Answer 3 years ago

I am working on a POC where I need to launch a PWA from Windows application instead of opening the url in the browser.

What I tried:-

1. Created a PWA and installed it on Windows.

2. Created a UWP application with Xamarin.Forms.

3. Called URL from my UWP application using Device.OpenUri(new Uri("http://localhost:8887"));

It is opening a browser instead of my PWA. Below is the manifest.json PWA:-

{
  "name": "Test",
  "short_name": "Test",
  "icons": [{
    "src": "images/icons/icon-128x128.png",
      "sizes": "128x128",
      "type": "image/png"
    }, {
      "src": "images/icons/icon-144x144.png",
      "sizes": "144x144",
      "type": "image/png"
    }, {
      "src": "images/icons/icon-152x152.png",
      "sizes": "152x152",
      "type": "image/png"
    }, {
      "src": "images/icons/icon-192x192.png",
      "sizes": "192x192",
      "type": "image/png"
    }, {
      "src": "images/icons/icon-256x256.png",
      "sizes": "256x256",
      "type": "image/png"
    }],
  "start_url": "/index.html",
  "display": "standalone",
  "background_color": "#3E4EB8",
  "theme_color": "#2F3BA2"
}

Can someone please guide me for achieving this use case.

manpreet 3 years ago

You could follow this document to wrap your PWA as UWP app. Then, you could declare a protocol in the Package.appxmanifest file like the following: