Window: appinstalled event

Limited availability

This feature is not Baseline because it does not work in some of the most widely-used browsers.

The appinstalled event of the Web Manifest API is fired when the browser has successfully installed a page as an application.

This event is not cancelable and does not bubble.

Syntax

Use the event name in methods like addEventListener(), or set an event handler property.

js
addEventListener("appinstalled", (event) => { })

onappinstalled = (event) => { }

Event type

A generic Event.

Examples

You can use the appinstalled event in an addEventListener method:

js
window.addEventListener("appinstalled", () => {
  console.log("Thank you for installing our app!");
});

Or use the onappinstalled event handler property:

js
window.onappinstalled = () => {
  console.log("Thank you for installing our app!");
};

Specifications

Specification
Manifest Incubations
# dom-window-onappinstalled

Browser compatibility

desktop mobile server
Chrome
Edge
Firefox
Opera
Safari
Chrome Android
Firefox for Android
Opera Android
Safari on iOS
Samsung Internet
WebView Android
WebView on iOS
Deno
appinstalled event
Chrome – Full support
Chrome 64 (Release date: 2018-01-23)
footnote Full support
Edge – Full support
Edge 79 (Release date: 2020-01-15)
footnote Full support
Firefox – No support
Firefox
footnote No support
Opera – No support
Opera
footnote
footnote Opera exposes the onappinstalled event handler, but the event is never fired.
Safari – No support
Safari
footnote No support
Chrome Android – Full support
Chrome Android 57 (Release date: 2017-03-16)
footnote Full support
Firefox for Android – No support
Firefox for Android
footnote No support
Opera Android – No support
Opera Android
footnote
footnote Opera exposes the onappinstalled event handler, but the event is never fired.
Safari on iOS – No support
Safari on iOS
footnote No support
Samsung Internet – Full support
Samsung Internet 7 (Release date: 2018-03-16)
footnote Full support
WebView Android – Full support
WebView Android 57 (Release date: 2017-03-16)
footnote Full support
WebView on iOS – No support
WebView on iOS
footnote No support
Deno – No support
Deno
footnote No support

Legend

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Full support
Full support
No support
No support
See implementation notes.