How to Publish PWA apps on app stores?

PWA: Why it is so popular?

Why should Publish your PWA App to Stores?

Popular marketplaces like Google and Microsoft play store have permitted PWA publishers to publish on their servers because of its growing popularity. It is important to publish PWA to the app stores. Here are the reasons:

• Increase the number of target visitors.
• Customers feel secure and reliable to use apps available in the stores.
• Easy to search on search engines that improve SERPs ranking.
• Effortless Installation of PWA web apps.
• Get an analytical report about the status and usage.
• No technical knowledge is needed to publish.
• Work offline or on low Internet networks.

It is now clear why app stores permit users to publish these self-hosted online web applications. If you want to self-publish your progressive mobile application, scroll down below.

Step to Publish on Different App Stores

Google Play Store

Google App Store was the first one to provide its open sources for app publication. Hosting on Google Play is the quicker process, all because of TWA ( Trusted Web Activities).

• Android Studio should be installed.
• Have a Google developer account.
• High-performance and quality tested Progressive Apps

• Step 1:Make A Clone Using TWA
• Use TWA for packaging of a PWA and wrap the SVGOMG in an Android Application.
• Clon the project using the command: https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/svgomg-twa.git.
• Import the Project into Android Studio: File > New > Import Project.
• Run the Project
• Step 2: Launch Android Studio and Go to Build > Generate Signed Bundle/APK and fill in the required fields.
• Step 3: Set up a Digital Asset Link to verify the ownership of PWA. Use SHA256 to generate a statement file and create a publicly accessible file from the Digital Asset Tool. The file should be saved in this location: .well-known/assetlinks.json
• Step 4: Create and Publish PWA to Store:
  • Go to All applications and create an application
  • Go to Navigate app release> Internet Test Track> Create a release in the section Application Releases;
  • Sign the APK with the Key store you extracted earlier;
  • Publish your PWA on Google Play by using the “Release Applications” feature;
  • In the store, place an ad.
  • PWA will become available to a wide range of users in a few hours once all fields are filled in and added to Google Play.

Microsoft App Store

Publishing your PWA to Microsoft doesn’t take much effort and time. However, you still need to submit your PWA manually as a window app package.

• You should have a Windows Developer Account.
• Install PWABuilder
• Progressive apps should meet the store policies and quality.

Steps By Step Instructions:

• Step 1: To help identify your PWA, give it a fallback name. Fill in all required fields in the “App Identity” field.
• Step 2: Need to create a functional AppX package to publish applications on the marketplace. Here is the next step to using PWABuilder tools:
  • create a manifest suitable for PWAs
  • Need to build and integrate service workers
  • Fill the required field and create an AppX file, and download the. appx package.
• Step3: Upload the app to the Microsoft Store and the created files. After following all the steps, the send to store button appears. Click on the button to verify your PWA. As soon as PWA qualifies for launch, it will launch for users to access the Microsoft marketplace.

Sum Up!