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It's amusing that Microsoft is still the one embracing PWAs most - Win10 app store allows to publish them directly (you have to upload a package, but all that package contains is the URL for the actual app, and name and icon for the store). But then there's also Bing PWA crawler which finds and adds existing apps.

It's literally the reverse of early 00s, when Microsoft was entrenched with rich desktop GUIs, and everybody else was hoping that web apps would be the way out of that lock-in. And now iOS and Android are the rich UI lock-in...



> you have to upload a package, but all that package contains is the URL for the actual app, and name and icon for the store

Shameless plug: you can use https://pwa2uwp.fragara.com/ to create such a package (an appx package), using nothing but your browser and curl.


Actually Flutter allows to create Material apps on iOS, and iOS-themed apps on Android.




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