Google Chrome is tuned to improve the web app installation experience with a new design that resembles the familiar Play Store cards used to install Android apps. This is a significant improvement over the current primitive install, which shows a small app icon and an option to add it to the home screen.

The new “Advanced Installer Interface” is a card that slides up from the bottom of the screen and includes icon previews, app descriptions, and screenshots. This way, users can easily understand the capabilities of the web app before installing it. The new tooltip is available for desktop and mobile versions of Chrome, and the desktop tooltip is added to the address bar.

Web apps offer a more flexible interface than Android apps and take up less space on device memory, making them a viable alternative for new form factors like foldable devices. Services like Twitter and Instagram have web apps better suited for larger screens and offer a more user-friendly experience than their native counterparts.

This development is expected to encourage more developers to work on web applications that are more compatible with large screens and make them more common. The new install prompt is compatible with Chrome 94 and later on mobile and Chrome 108 and later on desktop, and gives users of older versions of Chrome access to an enhanced installation process.

Google Chrome’s efforts to improve the installation process of web applications will undoubtedly make these applications more accessible to users and support the development of more compatible and flexible web applications. Google has also implemented a new instance switcher feature for Google Chrome on Android that enables seamless multitasking between different tabs and instances and makes mobile browsing more efficient than ever before.