8 Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) we'd love to see in the Microsoft Store

Now that Windows 10 supports Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) in the Microsoft Store, it's time to showtime looking at a few PWAs that are bachelor online correct now and that would exist correct at home in the Shop. Bringing PWAs to the Store is an like shooting fish in a barrel and convenient mode for developers to bring apps to Windows ten without having to port an existing app from iOS or Android. And PWAs are universal, across Windows 10, and other platforms.

Since PWAs are basically just websites that tin can be accessed on whatsoever platform, developers can build a PWA and have that app run on any platform that supports web apps, which includes Windows, Android and iOS. Of course, PWA apps will also help Microsoft in any futurity mobile efforts, every bit a lack of apps was 1 of Windows Mobile's biggest criticisms.

Hither's a list of PWAs we'd beloved to see in the Microsoft Store for Windows x.

Uber

Uber's Universal Windows Platform (UWP) app no longer works, unfortunately, every bit the programmer decided it wasn't worth updating considering non many people used information technology. Uber has a neat PWA, notwithstanding. Since Uber already has an app list, all it would need to practise is switch out the UWP with a PWA, and functionality would be restored. Check out the PWA hither.

Tinder

Are you looking for a date? On Windows 10 y'all're not. Tinder unfortunately never built a native app for Windows, but information technology has a sugariness PWA that would piece of work great on Windows x. Finding a engagement on your PC could come up in handy if you lot're at work and can't be seen on your phone. Check out the PWA hither.

Google Maps and Photos

Google doesn't frequently play nice with Microsoft, but it would exist really overnice if nosotros saw Google Maps and Google Photos show up in the Microsoft Store on Windows ten. While many people utilise Windows, non everyone is function of Microsoft's ecosystem. Lots of people use Google services for things like electronic mail and photos, and so information technology would be great to run across the Photos app in the Store for users that need it. Check out the Maps PWA hither. and Photos here.

Flipboard

Flipboard actually has an app in the Microsoft Shop, merely it'south an sometime Windows 8 app that'due south pretty basic. Flipboard could switch out its onetime Metro app with a new PWA app and update it with native support for Windows ten, with things like the Share carte, Live tile, and actionable notifications. Check out the Flipboard PWA hither.

Starbucks

Coffee drinker? Starbucks has a PWA that might do good you. Y'all tin check out all the different coffee on offer, and even sign in to run across your Starbucks Rewards. Cheque out the Starbucks PWA hither.

Paper Planes

Newspaper Planes is a cool picayune "game" that lets y'all transport a virtual newspaper plane around the world for someone to open up up. You tin can also catch paper planes sent from other people, and observe out where the paper plane was sent from. It's a simple idea and a great case of the kind of app you can build with PWA. Check out the Paper Planes PWA here.

Guitar Tuner

If you play guitar, a tuner app would come in handy. Guitar Tuner is a PWA that listens via your microphone and tells you the Octave of the sound that'due south playing.Cheque out the PWA hither.

What exercise you think?

Those are my picks for PWA apps I'd love to meet in the Microsoft Shop on Windows x. Do you have any thoughts on PWAs y'all'd beloved to see in the Store? Let us know in the comments.

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