Turning Your App Into a Mobile App
Add it to the home screen, send push notifications, use your own icon.
A common question: "Can I turn my app into a mobile app — on the home screen, with my own icon, that sends notifications?" Yes. Your LlamaPress app can work as a Progressive Web App (PWA), which gives you most of what a native app does without the app-store process.
What a PWA gives you
- Add to home screen — your app gets its own icon on a phone's home screen and opens full-screen, like an installed app (it runs as a web wrapper around your live site).
- Your own icon & name — you choose the icon, name, and splash colors that appear when it's installed.
- Push notifications — your app can send notifications to users via the web-push capability, even when the app isn't open.
We have users building exactly this kind of PWA-style experience on LlamaPress today.
How to set it up
Ask Leo to make your app installable — for example:
"Make my app a Progressive Web App: add a web app manifest with my app name and icon, and a service worker so users can add it to their home screen and get push notifications."
Leo can add the manifest, the icon, and wire up web-push for notifications. Tell it your app's name and upload your icon image (use Upload to Assets via the paperclip — see the Tools guide).
Installing it on a phone
- iPhone (Safari): open your live app URL, tap Share → Add to Home Screen.
- Android (Chrome): open the app, tap the ⋮ menu → Install app / Add to Home screen.
About native apps / "APK" & the app stores: a PWA is installed
straight from the web, so it does not require the Apple App Store or Google
Play. We don't yet generate a native Android APK or iOS build for
submission to the stores — that's on our roadmap. For most use cases (including
letting people install your app and even charge for access through your own site),
the PWA approach covers it today.
Want help getting push notifications working, or a hand setting up your icon and manifest? Email support@llamapress.ai.