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How is a PWA different from adding a site to your homescreen?

Adding as a bookmark doesn't get rid of the search bar and doesn't fill the top notification bar with the same colour as the app sets in the <head>.

And there isn't a real flow that does explicitly say "Install" which is crucial for the final user to understand.

And overall after PWA installation the screen is filled with app alone in a clear and native looking way.

It is a glorified bookmark. But the JavaScript kids like how some of there scripts still run offline. As long as you don't use their website in any normal way, like clicking anywhere.

There's the rather big deal that it also allows me to access APIs that I can't access from a normal website - like vibrate, notifications, storage, authentication, bluetooth, orientation, network info, motion, speech recognition, NFC, contacts.

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