PWA2APK on play store is still showing url

Question

I created a progressive web app, and it works perfectly. It prompts for installation and it saves the link on the android home and it shows no url address bar.

Then I used PWA2APK (https://appmaker.xyz/pwa-to-apk/) to create an APK and deploy on play store.

Once built, I downloaded the assetlinks.json, added the certificate SHA-256 modifying the assetlinks.json in this way (I changed values):

[
  {
    "relation": ["delegate_permission/common.handle_all_urls"],
    "target": {
      "namespace": "android_app",
      "package_name": "xyz.appmaker.pblx",
      "sha256_cert_fingerprints": ["AA:AA:AA:AA:AA:AA:AA:AA:AA:AA:AA:AA:AA:AA:AA:AA:AA:AA:AA:AA:AA:AA:AA:AA:AA:AA:AA:AA:AA:AA:AA:AA","SHA256: BB:BB:BB:BB:BB:BB:BB:BB:BB:BB:BB:BB:BB:BB:BB:BB:BB:BB:BB:BB:BB:BB:BB:BB:BB:BB:BB:BB:BB:BB:BB:BB"]
    }
  }
]

Then I pushed it online, and verified that www.exemple.com/.well-known/assetlinks.json show the values in the browser.

The package name is the same of the APK, and the SHA-256 is the Application signing certificate.

I also added icons, screen capture and all the necessary stuff. the total workflow is validated. So once deployed a version for an internal test, I expected it to work correctly, but it doesn't. The application is installed with a default icon, it shows the rl address bar and it has some load problems.

Did anybody experienced the same issues? How did you solve it?

Thanks.

Answer 1

I am part of the team that build this tool. And as for the question, this can be solved by removing SHA256 from following.

Before:

"sha256_cert_fingerprints": ["AA:AA:AA:AA:AA:AA:AA:AA:AA:AA:AA:AA:AA:AA:AA:AA:AA:AA:AA:AA:AA:AA:AA:AA:AA:AA:AA:AA:AA:AA:AA:AA","SHA256: BB:BB:BB:BB:BB:BB:BB:BB:BB:BB:BB:BB:BB:BB:BB:BB:BB:BB:BB:BB:BB:BB:BB:BB:BB:BB:BB:BB:BB:BB:BB:BB"]

After

  "sha256_cert_fingerprints": ["AA:AA:AA:AA:AA:AA:AA:AA:AA:AA:AA:AA:AA:AA:AA:AA:AA:AA:AA:AA:AA:AA:AA:AA:AA:AA:AA:AA:AA:AA:AA:AA","BB:BB:BB:BB:BB:BB:BB:BB:BB:BB:BB:BB:BB:BB:BB:BB:BB:BB:BB:BB:BB:BB:BB:BB:BB:BB:BB:BB:BB:BB:BB:BB"]

This should fix the issues you had with the address bar.

And yes, feel free to reach out in support forum anytime. Happy to help and thanks for using PWA2APK