Can a progressive web app be registered as a share option in Android?

Question

Total newbie question.

Tl;dr - Can a progressive web app be registered as a share option in Android?

In Android, we can “Share” things to other installed And

Answer 1

Yes. Now, you can do it on Chrome for Android from version 71+.

Assuming you have all the basics of PWA nailed down (HTTPS, registered service worker, and manifest) you only need to add the following section into your manifest.json:

  "share_target":
  {
    "action": "/share",
    "params":
    {
      "title": "title",
      "text": "text",
      "url": "url"
    }
  },

I wrote a more detailed tutorial if you get stuck at any stage.