Capabilities

A summary of the major news and updates that were announced during our 3-day online community event, and a reminder about upcoming regional events.

Building for modern browsers and progressively enhancing like it's 2003

Text Fragments let you specify a text snippet in the URL fragment. When navigating to a URL with such a text fragment, the browser can emphasize and/or bring it to the user's attention.

Make your Progressive Web App not feel like a website, but like a "real" app

QuicTransport is a new API offering low-latency, bidirectional, client-server messaging. Learn more about its use cases, and how to give feedback about the future of the implementation.

App shortcuts give quick access to a handful of common actions that users need frequently.

Nothing is worse when cooking with a mobile device than its screen turning off in the middle of a recipe step. Learn how cooking site BettyCrocker.com used the Wake Lock API to prevent this from happening.

Use the Idle Detection API to find out when the user isn't actively using their device.

Prevent your app from getting drowned in WebSocket messages or flooding a WebSocket server with messages by applying backpressure.

Reading and writing to NFC tags is now possible.

A new icon format to use adaptive icons on supporting platforms.

How to get your PWA to show up next to native apps in system-level sharing UIs

Enabling service workers to tell browsers which pages work offline

Sync your web app's data in the background for a more native-like experience

Sharing on mobile made simple with the Web Share Target API

Web apps can use the same system-provided share capabilities as native apps.

Notification Triggers allows you to schedule local notifications that don't require a network connection, which makes them ideal for use cases like calendar apps.

Help users with OTPs received through SMS

The new Native File System API allows web apps to read or save changes directly to files and folders on the user's device.

The Contact Picker API provides an easy way for users to share contacts from their contact list.

The Asynchronous Clipboard API now handles some images, in addition to text.

The Shape Detection API detects faces, barcodes, and text in images.

The getInstalledRelatedApps() method allows your web app to check whether your native app or PWA is installed on a user's device.

The Screen Wake Lock API provides a way to prevent devices from dimming or locking the screen when an application needs to keep running.