Prevent PWA from being installed

Question

Is there any way to configure my manifest.json to disable the browser popup asking to "install" the site? I'm using the following JavaScript code to prevent it:

window.addEventListener('beforeinstallprompt', function(e) {
    e.preventDefault();
    return false;
});

But I need to prevent it also on the AMP version, and I can't run JavaScript code there.

Answer 1

Currently, there doesn't appear to be an explicit setting to disable app install.

One workaround is to edit manifest.json so that it doesn't meet the required criteria for app install banner, such as removing short_name or icons declarations.

Answer 2

You can do:

window.addEventListener('beforeinstallprompt', (event) => {
  event.preventDefault()
})

Another workaround would be to set the display: 'browser' option in the site.webmanifest.