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Progressive Web Application Development by Example
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Progressive Web Application Development by Example

by Chris Love
July 2018
Intermediate to advanced
354 pages
8h 51m
English
Packt Publishing
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Controlling the launch style

The manifest has properties which are used by the platform to know how to launch the application. The display property allows you to control how the Chrome browser is rendered. The default value is browser, which launches the PWA in a browser, with Chrome.

The minimal-ui option launches the PWA as an application, but with a minimal set of navigation UI.

standalone launches the PWA as a full screen application. The application takes up most of the screen, but some browser elements, like the status bar, may be rendered. Check the following code to understand the properties:

  "display": "fullscreen", 
  "orientation": "landscape", 

fullscreen mode launches the application in full screen and application mode without ...

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