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Trusted Web Activity & Bubblewrap forcing the render engine (Chromium/firefox/geko)

Is there a way with bubblewrap when building a TWA to force the #custom-tabs engine that is used? Ie at the moment if a user has their default browser set as Firefox the TWA installed will use the Firefox/gecko implementation...

I'd rather force TWA to use chromium #custom-tabs due to additional APIs available and CSS handling.. Additionally testing is far easier with one engine than two.

Thanks

Solution

  • Bubblewrap doesn't provide an option to always use a specific provider. That is by design, for two reasons:

    • it's not possible to guarantee that a given browser will be installed for all users.
    • favour the user's browser choice.

    It is possible to modify the app directly to get this behaviour, but due to the reasons above, not recommended.