Microsoft joins Google to create new generation Progressive Web Apps
Microsoft and Google have joined hands to help web developers get their Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) into the Play Store. Progressive web apps use emerging web browser APIs and features, along with traditional progressive enhancement strategy, to bring a native app-like user experience to cross-platform web applications. Microsoft's PWABuilder and Google's Bubblewrap are now working together to help web developers. PWABuilder.com is Microsoft's open source developer tool that helps build high-quality PWAs and publish them in app stores. Bubblewrap is Google's command line utility and library to generate and sign Google Play Store packages from Progressive Web Apps. PWABuilder is now using Bubblerwrap under the hood, Microsoft says, and is giving back some integration features to PWAs on Android. After months of collaboration, the two tech giants have announced two great new features...