Last Update October 31, 2020: We improved the overall article.
New in Chrome M31 Beta you can set up your web app to have an application shortcut icon added to a device’s homescreen, and have the app launch in full-screen “app mode” using Chrome for Android’s “Add to homescreen” menu item.
When a user clicks “Add to homescreen” they will see the app being added on the homescreen.
When a user clicks “Add to homescreen” they will see the app being added on the homescreen.
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| homescreen Preview |
add to homescreen on apps
Chrome will look for the following meta tag in the element of the web-page:
The name attribute MUST be “mobile-web-app-capable” and the content attribute must be “yes” (case in-sensitive). If there is any other value in the content attribute the web app will be added as a regular bookmark.
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The icon that is used to install to the homescreen is determined by using the largest icon found in one of the following tags:
Configuration
The following example is the minimum required configuration to support a homescreen launch experience.
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| phonegap project Index code adding for icon |
In Android Studio on [project] open assets folder past code in index.html file :
