Grist as PWA for mobile devices?

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My understanding is that:

  1. Grist is already pretty mobile-friendly.
  2. Apps that include a web app manifest file can take advantage of progressive web app (PWA) features on mobile devices: things like appearing without browser chrome, showing up separately in the app switcher, etc.
  3. Grist, by which I mean docs.getgrist.com, doesn’t currently have a web app manifest file.

Assuming this understanding is correct, it seems like it might be relatively straightforward to enable PWA support (i.e., just add the web app manifest). I’m curious whether this has been considered already.

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No, I don’t know of anyone who has tried that. I’d be interested in how it turns out, if you try it!

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Thanks for the reply! I haven’t tried self-hosting yet (So far I just use docs.getgrist.com as well as Grist Desktop), but if I have some time I might try it so I can try out this webmanifest.json concept and report back.

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it should be a mix of Grist Desktop with Grist Cloud. What I mean is that for mobile devices, offline usage (local database) is very important