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Test the PWA in the Android Emulator

Test the PWA in the Android Emulator - JavaScript Tutorial

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Test the PWA in the Android Emulator

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- [Instructor] At this point, we can test what the PWA will look like when we finish. So jump back into the Android Emulator, and click the Menu icon. It's the three little dots to the right of the address bar. And then choose Add to Home screen. Chrome will use the name and icon specified in the manifest. Click Add. For this one, I'm just gonna let Chrome add it automatically, and then you'll be notified that the app was added to the Home screen. Let's click the Home button, and now you can see our app has been added to one of the Home screens. Don't worry too much about the icon having that Chrome logo associated with it. This emulator happens to use an older version of Chrome. In later versions, the Chrome icon is removed. Let's touch our new PWA, and you'll see a splash screen, followed by our app loaded on the device. I know I went quickly, but wasn't it cool that the splash screen had our background color as specified in the manifest? And then when the app is loaded, you won't…

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