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What are Progressive Web Applications


This article will help you to answer following questions :

What are Progressive Web Applications ?
How are they different from Mobile and Web Applications ?
What are the advantages of building Progressive Web Applications ?


What are Progressive Web Applications?

The concept of Progressive Web Applications was first introduced by Google in 2015. The applications built using this technology utilizes the best of both worlds from Mobile and Web Applications.

Mobile applications are those applications which are particularly designed keeping mobile phones and their sizes in mind so that the look and feel of these applications are best to view in mobile phones. Similarly Web applications are designed in such a way that the look and feel is best to view the applications in bigger screen devices like laptops and desktops.

Now comes a newer version called Progressive Web applications which can be viewed in different devices using the same application code.

How are they different from Mobile and Web Applications ?

Mobile applications come in different flavors like IOS and Android depending on where the application is finally intended to be installed. Generally you will have to develop the application code for different types of targeted devices. Although there are certain tools like Outsystems where you can just develop your mobile application code once and can be distributed to either IOS or Android. And once you have distributed the code into Google Play Store or Apple App Store, users have to download and install the applications in their mobile device. As some experts say, applications loses around 20% of its users just between downloading an app and using the app for the first time.
Here comes the beauty of the Progressive Web Apps (PWA). 

You do not need to download and install a PWA. Users can just add an app on their home screen without actually downloading and installing it and still be able to perform all the functions like any other mobile app.


What are the advantages of building Progressive Web Applications ?

  • PWA does not need to be downloaded from Google Play Store or Apple App Store to be installed on your mobile device. They can just be added to your home screen when accessing through a browser.
  • Does not take up space on your mobile device. These are light weight apps on your device.
  • PWA can still get push notifications as in any other mobile apps
  • PWA are best suited for offline applications too.
  • Since PWA are basically web applications they are designed to work on any browser without any issues.

In my next article, I will show you how easy is to build PWA in outsystems and how you can be on the frontline in tech industry.
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