I have a web app that allows the user to add the web page to his home screen on the iphone.
That functionality exists with Safari.
Now they released the chrome browser for the iphone too. My question is how can I instruct the user to add the web page to his ios home screen. The chrome browser doesnt seem to have that functionality..?
Can I add a shortcut from chrome options so that it would appear on the iphone home page?
For completeness:
https://developer.chrome.com/multidevice/android/installtohomescreen
Does Add to homescreen work on Chrome for iOS?
No.
Can't change the default browser, but try this (found online a while ago). Add a bookmark in Safari called "Open in Chrome" with the following.
javascript:location.href=%22googlechrome%22+location.href.substring(4);
Will open the current page in Chrome. Not as convenient, but maybe someone will find it useful.
Source
Works for me.
The is no API for adding a shortcut to the home screen in iOS, so no third-party browser is capable of providing that functionality.
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I have the following problem:
I have a PWA in iOS and I want to open an external link(<a>...</a>) (Not as a PWA window) as a download link. A new window opens, but unfortunately I can't get back into the PWA. I am virtually stuck in the iOS download window.
Using target="_blank" does not help unfortunately.
Does anyone have the same problem and know how to solve it?
Many kind regards
Is there any way to simulate the “IOS add to home screen” function in windows with Google Chrome for debugging ?
I want to debug PWAs (progressive web applications) with a browser like Google Chrome.
For example at this link or this link , this two site have a PWA and need to be added to home screen to be shown or debugging.
The only way I can think of so you can do that is if you have a Mac with the XCode iPhone simulator.
Not all PWAs (progressive web applications) are the same, for the second link you can simply use “toggle visibility” option on inspect element sources and use the app, but I doubt you can do that for the first one.
Is there a deep link that will open a page in Safari from another app?
I have tried
safari://https://www.google.com
safari://www.google.com
but it doesn't work. I get the pop-up asking if I want to leave the current app, but Safari doesn't open.
This is the equivalent for Chrome, which works:
googlechrome://www.google.com
safari-https://www.google.com ...
is the simple solution to this issue
I'm using Phonegap + JQuerymobile to develop an Android app.
I wish to open an external link on an external browser (say Firefox, or Chrome; or let the user choose the browser).
How can I achieve this?
I have tried, without achieving desired results:
mylink.com
I also use '_blank', but I don't really see the difference.
Thanks.
UPDATE:
I've done some research, but have not found yet an answwer. I've also checked this questions, but they don't seem to solve my problem:
Links don't open in external browser in JQuery Mobile with PhoneGap: attributes _blank and _system don't seem to make a difference in my app
Open External Page in Popup in jQuery Mobile: this is using an HTML popup
Force iOS app opens external links in safari: this is for iOs apps
Opening links in external device browser with Cordova/jQuery-mobile: again the _system parameter, which doesn't show the list of browser for the user to choose from (not it's my default Chrome browser either)
other google searches
This did the job: using navigator.app.loadUrl()
full example:
(taken from: Opening an url in a new browser window in Android working with PhoneGap)
I am in the mist of creating a mobile web app and have both meta tags
I have an iphone 5 on 7.0.4
When I click on a regular link like the one below it, opens up a mobile safari window and leaves the webapp. I also tried setting the target to _self and same behavior.
Sign in
I then used my ipad which was on 7.0.3 and it worked as should, not opening mobile safari on links. I think proceeded to update my ipad to 7.0.4 and the same issue as I had on my ipad.
Anyone ran into this issue and or knows a fix ?
Thanks
Since iOS 7.0.4 all links in WebApps open in Safari. As a workaround you can use Javascript:
window.location.href='text.html'
But remember that these steps will not be captured in history (so there is no ability to use Javascript like history.back() ..).
Alternatively, if you are using a menu in your web app, try to combine iframe and Javascript, you can change the content of your iframe with this Javascipt:
document.getElementById("frame").src = new_content.html
This will prevent your WebApp to open up links in Safari and stay in WebApp view.