Comment by input_sh

I recently explored wrapping my somewhat-popular website as an app, only to discover that Google wants apps to offer some unique functionalities that the website doesn't support, otherwise they'll reject it as spam listing.

The examples they list of such features are offline support (PWA already allows that), push notifications (browsers already support that), integration with hardware (not applicable), mobile-optimised UI (really?)... all nonsense.

I know they're not strict about this policy as I can name many local apps that are just wrappers of the web version, but I abandoned by idea immediately as it's not beneficial to me in any way to prioritise one particular platform over the others.