Get Installed Related Apps API

Category: JavaScript
Type: New or changed feature
Status: Enabled by default (Chrome 85)
Intent stage: Prepare to ship

Summary

The Get Installed Related Apps API (navigator.getInstalledRelatedApps) provides sites access to if their corresponding related applications are installed. Sites are only allowed to use this API if the native application has an established association with the web origin. The API was launched in Chrome 80. Additional support for web apps on Desktop was enabled in Chrome 140. You can find details here: https://developer.chrome.com/docs/capabilities/get-installed-related-apps

Standards & signals

Specification: https://wicg.github.io/get-installed-related-apps/spec
Firefox: Negative
Safari: No signal
Web developers: Positive
Tracking bug: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=895854

Docs: https://web.dev/get-installed-related-apps

Explainers: https://github.com/WICG/get-installed-related-apps/blob/main/EXPLAINER.md

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