Twitter's choice to offer a progressive web app, or PWA, shows what's possible on the web now. The company likes its native apps, but says its PWA is good for quickly bringing new people to Twitter.

stack Android apps. For example, many betting sites in India prefer to create web apps instead of Android apps since their largest audience uses Google Chrome.

Web apps have slowly but surely become a viable alternative to Android apps on the latest and greatest phones, tablets, and Chromebooks. But as great as web apps can be, their installation process ...