Meta Tag “apple-mobile-web-app-capable” for Android?

Question

Is there a way to create an Android Web Application like on the iPhone?

Using the \"apple-mobile-web-app-capable\" meta tag in the head element of an HTML page, it i

Answer 1

I don't believe so.

However, it would be fairly trivial to detect if a browser is an Android device, and show a link to a Android Market app (or directly to the APK)

As Android has a WebView widget, it's pretty trivial to write an app that loads a dedicated website, or that somehow wraps offline content (either downloaded at first-launch, or shipped in the assets folder)

Answer 2

Since Chrome31+ home screen web apps are also supported on Android. See here.

Answer 3

Chrome on Android now supports a meta-tag mobile-web-app-capable:

Since Chrome M31, 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.

For details about the mobile-web-app-capable meta-tag, scroll down to "Supporting homescreen-installed apps prior to M39":

Since M31, Chrome will look for the following meta tag in the element of the web-page (if there's a manifest with display specified, this is ignored):

<meta name="mobile-web-app-capable" content="yes">

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.

While I don't have any devices running Chrome M31 that I could test with, I interpret this to mean that full-screen web apps, with an icon on the device's homescreen, are supported as far back as Chrome M31, provided you use that mobile-web-app-capable meta tag.

Answer 4

You can create shortcuts to bookmarks (=any web page) on the homescreen.

Answer 5

Use jQuery, you can see if the height of the content is greater than the viewport height. If not, then you can make it that height.

$(document).ready(function() { 
  if (navigator.userAgent.match(/Android/i)) { 
    window.scrollTo(0,0); // reset in case prev not scrolled   
    var nPageH = $(document).height(); 
    var nViewH = window.outerHeight; 
    if (nViewH > nPageH) { 
      nViewH -= 250; 
      $('BODY').css('height',nViewH + 'px'); 
    } 
    window.scrollTo(0,1); 
  } 

}); 

Credit to meagar: Removing address bar from browser (to view on Android)