There are old forum posts that describe how to turn a Wix website into a progressive web application (PWA), but more recent posts state this is no longer possible.
However, there is nothing to suggest WIx prevents you from creating a simple (non-progressive) mobile web app as outlined here
If this is still possible, how can it be coded so when a user clicks a button on your Wix site it will check if the user is actually using a mobile phone, and if so create the web app button/icon on their phone’s home screen?
About 80% of our users access our website from a mobile device, so having an icon on their home screen is a definite improvement. We followed the instructions on the link and it worked, sort of.
While iOS/Safari creates an icon on the home screen using the Favicon image, Chrome and other browsers on Android phones do not. Instead, they just show a blank square with a letter and a tiny browser icon.
We tried updating our Favicon image on Wix (Dashboard/Settings/Website Settings) using various sizes and formats (.jpg, .png and .ico) and all work fine for the browser tabs on all iOS and Android, but do not appear as the saved home screen icon (except iOS/Safari).
This seems to be a Wix issue (missing the required meta tags, perhaps?) as I was able to save other websites to iOS/Android home screens with their correct Favicons.
Newer versions of Chrome no longer create a clumsy lettered shortcut on the Android phone’s home page and instead prompt users to “Install as an app” then creates a genuine app icon on the phone’s home screen that runs as a PWA.
