I have a web app running on Safari on an iPad. I am starting the app from the iPad home page. I want the app to start in full-screen mode, and to continue running in full-screen mode (i.e. not showing the Safari address bar).
I want to prevent the "pinch-to-zoom" and pan/zoom functions so the page always remains static. How do I do this?
If you put the following meta tag into the html output and then start the app from the homepage then it will be fullscreen when it runs:
<meta name="apple-mobile-web-app-capable" content="yes">
The following is to prevent the user from zooming:
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width,user-scalable=no">
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I'm creating a web app that needs to be displayed in full screen mode on an ipad. I also need to remove the 300ms click delay for the app to perform responsively. To do this I've added the following metatags to the header:
<meta name="apple-mobile-web-app-status-bar-style" content="black">
<meta name="apple-mobile-web-app-capable" content="yes">
<meta name="viewport" content="initial-scale=1.0,width=device-width,user-scalable=0">
Full screen mode is activated when I add the website to my home screen (Safari, Share->Add To Home Screen).
The issue I'm running into is that when I view the web app in Safari, the 300ms click delay is removed, however, in full screen mode (when opening the app via the home screen icon), the 300ms click delay persists.
As a very simple example, here is a codepen with 2 radio buttons with the meta tags set as I mentioned above:
http://codepen.io/cgat/full/ZBwYyW/
If you open this pen in mobile Safari and add to the home screen, you'll see the delay in radio clicks.
I'm testing with an ipad air.
I have got a web page that I am showing on full-screen when open it from the home screen via:
<meta name="apple-mobile-web-app-capable" content="yes">
this works fine, but in iOS7 the status bar appears with a black text over black background and:
<meta name="apple-mobile-web-app-status-bar-style" content="black">
does not work, while it works on iOS8.
Where does it get the text colour? and why there is no possible way to change it? I searched for a bit on this matter and I couldn't find a solution other than not showing the app on full-screen mode, I need to show the time on the status bar.
I am developing a mobile web site using Sencha Touch. In iOS7 Safari I cannot make the top address bar & the toolbar below go away. Sencha used to handle this upto iOS6 but some recent changes in iOS7 is causing this issue.
http://java.dzone.com/articles/safari-ios-7-and-html5
I read the above link & it seems this is also an issue for HTML5 Games & a few other apps.
The old window.scrollTo() which worked for iOS6 no longer works.
Add minimal-ui in your meta tag viewport, this will hide he address bar and browser controls in safari iOS7:
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, maximum-scale=1.0, minimum-scale=1.0, user-scalable=no, minimal-ui">
More info on iOS7 and fullscreen mode for mobile websites: http://blog.initlabs.com/post/81716286465/how-to-display-websites-in-fullscreen-mode-in-ios7
With iOS 7 I don't think you really have a choice. Obviously Apple doesn't want developers doing this anymore, and even if someone finds another workaround it probably won't stick around for that long.
Honestly, I think getting fullscreen functionality is a fair trade off for users to install the app to their home screen. Obviously there are certain cases where this isn't true, but I guess I find it understandable to some degree. You should still be able to add the following meta tag and it will be fullscreen once added to home screen:
<meta name="apple-mobile-web-app-capable" content="yes">
There are a few nice libraries out there that add an "add to homescreen" prompt that you can set up to be rather unobtrusive with custom messages. In this case, might be best to embrace the change...
So you can make a website go "full screen" and hide the addressbar/chrome on ipad if the user adds your page to their home screen, which makes an icon on the home screen that they launch your site from. You just put some meta tags like this:
<meta name="apple-mobile-web-app-capable" content="yes" />
<meta name="apple-touch-fullscreen" content="yes" />
However, I haven't been able to get a site to hide the browser chrome when the page is just in a normal browsing session (the user hasn't launched your site directly from an icon on their home screen). Is it possible to do so? How?
According to the Apple Docs it doesn't specifically say you can't (however as you've noted, it appears to only behave as desired when the site has been added to your home screen).
I also noted that on the Apple Support Forum the consensus seems to be that you need to launch from the home screen to get the desired effect.
Quote from Docs:
apple-mobile-web-app-capable
Sets whether a web application runs in full-screen mode.
Syntax
<meta name="apple-mobile-web-app-capable" content="yes">
Discussion
If content is set to yes, the web application runs in full-screen mode; otherwise, it does not. The default behavior is to use Safari to display web content.
You can determine whether a webpage is displayed in full-screen mode using the window.navigator.standalone read-only Boolean JavaScript property.
Availability
Available in iOS 2.1 and later.
I found this works,
$('body').delay('1000').animate({ scrollTop: '0px' }, 'slow');
I noticed that scrolling down removed it, so scrolled 60px (height of the chrome), but that hide it and scrolled down the page, but a scroll of 0px, assuming your page has started at the top (not on a # target), fools it!
I guess you could even remove the delay and animate, but I wanted it to be smooth, and not too jerky.
I have a web app running on Safari on an iPad. I am starting the app from the iPad home page. I want the app to start in full-screen mode, and to continue running in full-screen mode (i.e. not showing the Safari address bar). I have therefore added the following meta-tags to the site master page:
<meta name="apple-mobile-web-app-capable" content="yes" />
<meta name="apple-mobile-web-app-status-bar-style" content="black" />
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width">
I start the app from the iPad home page and it starts nicely in full-screen mode (not showing the Safari address bar) but when I click a to another page in the site (with the same meta-tags, as inherited from the same site master page) then the address bar suddenly pops into view (and remains in view). The link looks as follows (I am using jQueryMobile):
Home
How can I force the web app to remain looking like a 'native-app' by keeping the address bar hidden when navigating between internal pages?
It would appear that Mobile Safari does not 'natively' support full-screen if you use external links. As soon as you use an html anchor then it flips out of full-screen mode. The window.scrollTo may be a workaround that will work for some people, but I also want to avoid the way that the UI flips itself when transitioning to the non-full-screen mode too.
The answer is to use window.location.assign(). This keeps the full-screen app in 'native' full-screen mode. You just need to refactor your tags into javascript window.location.assign(url) calls - that then keeps the thing in full-screen.
Add jQuery and you don't have to modify any links,
$(document).ready(function(){
$('a').click(function(event){
event.preventDefault();
window.location.assign($(this).attr('href'));
});
});
Example link:
Next page without safari
maybe this: source
// When ready...
window.addEventListener("load",function() {
// Set a timeout...
setTimeout(function(){
// Hide the address bar!
window.scrollTo(0, 1);
}, 0);
});