According to The Verge report, Chrome OS has recently begun to try to replace the original Android applications with Progressive Web Apps (PWA).
Progressive web applications are web applications that are structured on ordinary web pages or websites, but they are also presented in the form of traditional mobile applications, so they retain the native experience and are able to combine the functionality provided by the browser with the experience advantages of mobile devices Combine.
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For many Chromebook users, this is probably good news. In some cases, PWA is faster and more powerful than similar Android products. And, PWA takes up less storage space and running memory.
The experience of some Android applications on Chrome OS is not good, and Google has been trying to optimize Android applications that can run on tablet-sized screens for many years. However, Google has now decided to try to directly replace them with PWA.
In fact, PWA was previously available in the Play App Store, the difference is that now they have become the default version. In other words, when you download the application, it will automatically be recognized as Chrome OS, and start to install PWA instead of Android version.
Foreign media Chrome Unboxed found that the first application to be replaced is Twitter. Dominick Ng, technical director of the Chrome OS application platform, revealed that the next one will be YouTube.
Dominick stated that this was "one of the most challenging and satisfying jobs he has ever done." He also posted a speech video about introducing PWA. Google seems to be more attentive to PWA recently. Since the beginning of this year, it has even opened a special page to introduce PWA. So, will this trend be the future of applications?