TWA (Trusted Web Activity)
An Android way to ship a web app as a store app: the browser shows your site full screen inside an app package.
A Trusted Web Activity opens your own web content, usually a PWA, through the user’s browser without any browser interface. Digital Asset Links prove that the app and the site belong to the same developer. Updates ship by deploying the website, with no store review for content changes. It covers Android only; iOS needs a wrapper such as Capacitor.
Related terms
- PWA (progressive web app): A website with a manifest and a service worker, so it can be installed, work offline and be packaged for app stores.
- Capacitor: An open source runtime that packages a web app as native iOS and Android apps, with plugins for device features.
- D-U-N-S number: A nine-digit company identifier from Dun & Bradstreet that Apple and Google require to publish apps as an organization.
