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PWA - Android, iOS, MacOS, Windows Store, Chrome Add to Home Screen - Problems with multi tenancy app with multi domains

I have couple questions about generating PWA App. Maybe at the first step I explain something about app for better understanding my problems with generating app for multiplatforms.
Multi Tenancy App
I can't say much more about application. This is application where users can create own account. Accounts is separated at servers, eg. app1, app2, app3 etc. Every server has his own domain, eg. app1.example.com etc. Every user can upgrade his account to premium type and define own domain, which can be go on and login to his account without using global domains (here is a problem with PWA app, multi domains). I think it is everything what you need to know, if you need more specific info, give me a feedback, I will try to help you. I need to use WebView because app need access to localStorage.
My problems
Problem is with multi domains. In manifest.json configuration is possible to define one domain, which app will be use to display application and authorize it (with assetlinks.json) to don't display URL Bar (for "Add to Home Screen" - with android app is possible to add wildcard).
I need possibility to use application with multi domains (I achieve it on android - explanation in the following part of post).
Problem is too with adding application from mobile Chrome "Add to Home Screen" and on the desktop "Install app...". After redirect to other URL, URL Bar is shown.
Next problem is to compile Windows Store app from Visual Studio (explanation in the following part of post).
I need more info about compiling app for iOS and MacOS - is this possible to compile and test it without Apple devices? I tried to use pwabuilder.com, but after download MacOS package folder is empty. Maybe virtual machine could help me with that? What you recommend too use to make that application? I tested what I found in google, but it wasn't what I expect.
Installation from Chrome browser
Is possible to change user URL without showing URL Bar? Now after autorization user and redirect him on the properly his premium address url bar is showing - i don't want users to have to go on properly domain and install app from "Add to Home Screen" - they should install it from any domain and use it like Native App.
Android
Partially solved problem with subdomains for every account. It's working properly, but maybe someone has any other authorization solution where I don't need custom subdomain for authorize app.
Windows Store
I installed Visual Studio, make new application with this documentation but I getting error
Error Project must have a reference to an application. Please add a reference under the 'Applications' node in the Solution Explorer.
Here is an issue - Maybe problem is with newest version of Visual Studio? Next question is, even if I compile the App, what with multi domain - URL Bar will be visible when user will be redirected? What if Chrome don't be installed?
iOS and MacOS
Maybe someone has good documentation how to create apps on this platform and where can I test it? What with multi domain? URL Bar will be shown? Is possible to make it invisible like an Android App eg. wildcard or other solution?
My questions
How to create PWA app for iOS and MacOS. Maybe is nice documentation for it.
How to build application for Windows Store. I made app with Microsoft documentation, but it doesn't work - problem was open on GitHub Issue, but without solution.
Is possible to use multi domains and don't show URL Bar for applications installed from mobile Chrome like a "Add to Home" or desktop Chrome "Install app...".
What if Chrome don't be installed on device? Application will be working properly? I know from android 8.1 is possible to remove chrome from android. I don't know if after remove Chrome application will be working?
Thanks everyone for help and your patience, I counting on much help from you.

I'm recently building a PWA with Vue and I'm trying to find a way of making the IOS package out of It. So far I haven't done yet but for Windows, Android & MacOs are pretty easy ... There a lot of blog tutorials for that and if you don't want to go through much of coding then the PWA Builder is the best option for you.
For your 4th question if you want to run a PWA from a browser the browser you have must support standalone desktop apps.
I wanted to try my PWA on iPhone from Chrome and couldn't because that chrome does not have the feature to pin an app to screen so I had to rely on safari only

Where to download Android Studio?

I searched all the site of Android developers where a download link is supposed to be, and I just found an endless loop of self references and no link.
And many blogs redirect to a campaign link that redirects to the same page.
I just want this SDK because of its emulator. Where to get it on Linux?

On that page, there should be a large green button:
Clicking that button brings up a license dialog:
Checking the "agree" checkbox enables the button shown in blue. Clicking the button will begin your download.
These screenshots were taken using Firefox 47.0 on Ubuntu 15.10. Chromium 51.0 also works on Ubuntu 15.10.
There was a bug on the site last week, where the green download button was disabled on Linux. That bug has been fixed, though it is possible there is some combination of Linux distro and browser where the bug still exists.

Are you using Internet Explorer as your browser? This was the only scenario in which I was not able to download using the aforementinoned link.
If this is the case, try using another browser.

web host issue, .apk files to download from android browser

I have been trying to get some people to test an android app and needed a friendly way to delivery it since it is not currently on the marketplace. I had uploaded it to my website and found that mostly every attempt to download failed. This was wither through the android emulator or actual devices.
I was only able to successfully download on 1 device personally and the rest of the users reported download unsuccessful/failed.
I put the file on 2 different webservers and and I was successfully able to download via android browser from the other servers.
What should I tell my primary host so I can resolve this problem?

They need to add the mine type for ".apk" to "application/vnd.android.package-archive"
I had a similar problem and fix it by adding the mime type to the site configuration in IIS. On Apache I haven't encountered the problem.

Help: HOWTO Test Android App from within Emulator with Different Mobile Web Broswer Engines?

I have developed a mobile application using jQuery Mobile. I have it working in the emulator using the default web browser engine. Now, I want to test the app using the different browsers engines available on mobile devices. I have seen this accomplished from other developers, such as Opera, Chrome, or Safari. What is happening is these different browsers are being pointed to the Android emulator that is running the application.
Can anyone provide a link on how this is accomplished so I may follow the steps? I have searched the net and I can seem to find any solid information that explains this well enough for me to follow.
Thank you for reading my post.

You can use the emulator to browse the web and go to websites with browser packages for you to install other apps in your virtual phone.
Alternatively you can use DDMS to transfer the .apk files to your virtual mobile phone, and then install them without using internet on emulator.
Then, when you have some application associated with a specific file type or operation, typically Android asks you which one you want to use, with a popup, and allows you to also set a default one for that file type/action.

Move app to phone

yesterday I posted the question ‘How do I convert eclipse app for phone?’
I have used eclipse to design an android app which runs fine on the emulator and I now want to transfer it to my phone. Sixten Otto kindly offered some advice regarding how to test/debug my app on my phone straight from Eclipse's Run menu.
(See Developing on a Device from the Android developer site.)
Step 1, declare application as ‘debuggable’ – done, no problem.
Step 2, turn on USB debugging on phone – done, no problem.
Step 3, Setup your system to detect your device – been at this for
hours, still no closer to achieving. (And yes I do have the usb
driver in the Android sdk).
All I want to do is move my very simple app from my computer to my phone, for my own use only. I have Samsung Kies on my PC for file transfer and I have a load of files generated by eclipse. Surely there is a simple way of getting an app from PC to phone. Any help appreciated while I still have some hair left. Thanks.

On your Android device goto Settings/Applications and activate the checkbox "Unknown sources". Then open the folder of your Eclipse Android app project and you'll find the according apk file in the output folder.
You have then several possibilities to transfer this app to your Android powered device:
Install over Mail (simplest/fastest/minimum setup required)
Simply send the apk file to your own Gmail account to which you have also access from your mobile Android. Open it from there and the installation will automatically start.
Deploy on some publicly accessible URL
Alternatively you may have some hosting space somewhere. In such a case what you may do is to create a simple HTML page showing a "Download app" link which starts the download of your APK file (which you deployed on the server). To speed up a bit, you could use the Chrome-to-phone extension for pushing the page to your mobile, or you could create a QR code pointing to your deployed APK file and scan that from your mobile.
Although by having a FTP connection to your webspace you may be quite fast in deploying a new version of your app, this whole process is still quite tedious. Moreover it may not be granted that you have a webspace :)
Use Dropbox! (my favourite)
Personally my favorite one is to use Dropbox. It requires some setup steps, but Dropbox will be useful for a lot of other things too.
Get a Dropbox account and install it on your computer
Install Dropbox on your Android phone
Create a folder within your Dropbox folder for placing your apk file
Open Dropbox on Android and browse to the folder. Click on the apk file and the installation will start
This is nice once you have set up everything because you don't have to send emails back and forth. Moreover you have publicly accessible folders in Dropbox which allows you to share your app also with your friends (by sending the according URL).
I've taken this from a blog post I've written a couple of month ago.