Allow the app to be installed as a PWA

[jeda]

The app already includes a manifest.json - but it's lacking some details. Most notably:

• It has no Service Worker included, so Chrome etc. says "no"
• the app lacks any proper icons (although this also applies to favicons) - maybe some should be added :)

[bigint]

+1 love to see this, code-server has this great option, but I love Gitpod 😄

[tlockney]

It does allow you to at least create the app on iPadOS in Safari, but it uses the redirect URL without the token, so when you try to open it, you get a "Forbidden" message.

[filiptronicek]

Please see microsoft#135553 for tracking progress on this issue.

[hanneshayashi]

Seems like this has been implemented now upstream in microsoft#135553.

[filiptronicek]

Seems like this has been implemented now upstream in microsoft#135553.

Yes indeed, thanks for noticing. Before we close this, I want to wait until we ship insiders today, I have a feeling this will not work right away since this mainly affects vscode.dev.

[jrderuiter]

Any updates on this? (Would love to have this feature to address keyboard shortcuts etc.)

[Nishchit14]

This is a very needy feature (also easy to implement), I don't know why it's taking a year-long time. I am coming from a codespace and the experience is not matching due to PWA here in the GitPod.

anyway this helped me for now gitpod-io/gitpod#1445 (comment)

[bbigras]

Is this still relevant?