Web platform features explorer - beforeinstallprompt

The beforeinstallprompt event fires when a Progressive Web App (PWA) is installable. You can cancel the event and later call event.prompt() to control when the installation prompt is shown. The appinstalled event fires when the PWA is successfully installed.

Status

Limited availability

MDN documentation

Window: beforeinstallprompt event

Specifications

Manifest Incubations (#installation-events), from Web Platform Incubator Community Group (W3C).

Browser support

Chrome 76 Released on 2019-07-30
Chrome Android 76 Released on 2019-07-30
Edge 79 Released on 2020-01-15
Firefox ❌
Firefox for Android ❌
Safari ❌
Safari on iOS ❌

Usage (according to Chrome Platform Status)

~15.115% of page loads. More data at chromestatus.com.

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