idea 45 · build only
Installable app
A manifest makes the guide installable, with no store listing.
Bloomberg Connects
The reason 1,500 organisations are on one app is that most of them cannot fund, ship and maintain their own. Installing from the web removes the store from the problem.
https://www.bloombergconnects.org/Install
Add it to the home screen
Right now
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{
"name": "Museum guide",
"short_name": "Guide",
"start_url": "/what-we-do",
"display": "standalone",
"background_color": "#ffffff",
"theme_color": "#1a1aff",
"orientation": "portrait"
}
→You skip the store listing, the review queue and the annual developer fee.
→An update is a deploy. Nobody has to install anything twice.
→The icon sits next to the native apps and opens without a browser bar.
→What you give up is anything the phone will not give a web page.
The state box reads the real thing: display-mode: standalone, the iOS flag, and the Android install event. For a small institution an install from the web is often the only version they will ever ship, because the cost of a store presence is mostly not the code.