Installed web applications can now receive file shares, e.g. images. Using the manifest, the web application can declare which MIME types and/or file extensions it accepts. Previously, mobile platforms allowed files to be shared to native applications, but not web applications.

Demo

• https://github.com/GoogleChrome/samples/tree/gh-pages/web-share

Documentation

• https://web.dev/web-share-target/

Specification

Editor's draft

Status in Chromium

Blink components: A-N/A

Enabled by default (tracking bug) in:

• Chrome for desktop release 89
• Chrome for Android release 76

Consensus & Standardization

• Firefox: Worth prototyping
• Edge: No signal
• Safari: No signal
• Web Developers: Positive

Owner

• ericwilligers@chromium.org

Intent to Prototype url

Comments

In development on Chrome OS. Shipped on Android.

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Last updated on 2021-01-19