Does 'meta name=“google-play-app”' work?

Question

When you have a (mobile) site, and corresponding mobile apps for your site, there are meta-tags for iOS and Windows 8 to open a standard notification on the platform to tell

Answer 1

Does this meta tag works in Android ? No.
Can it be handled ? Yes.

iOS 6 and later, natively shows a smart banner that reminds browser user, about the mobile application. But android doesn't support this natively.

To have this banner in android browsers you can use a jquery plugin: https://github.com/jasny/jquery.smartbanner

First add this:

Then include smart banner:

At last initialize it:

$.smartbanner({
  title: 'My good title',
  author: 'My smart author'
});

Source: http://www.dunnsolutions.com/content/application-development-blog/-/blogs/smart-app-banners-for-ios-and-android
Related: Creating an android smart app banner