# Add to homescreen banner on Android
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-to-homescreen-banner-on-android/42973
**Category:** Announcements
**Tags:** feedback
**Created:** [22 באפריל, 2016, 6:27am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-to-homescreen-banner-on-android/42973 "2016-04-22T06:27:24Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)
#### Post date: [29 באפריל, 2016, 3:23pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-to-homescreen-banner-on-android/42973/41 "2016-04-29T15:23:41Z")
> [@tgxworld](#):
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> Android 6 each tab in the browser is a tab in the app switcher.
> **[Chrome for Android stops merging apps and tabs by default](https://www.androidcentral.com/chrome-android-stops-merging-apps-and-tabs-default)**
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> Google's browser quietly reverts to the old-style tab switcher on phones — but you'll only see the change in a fresh Chrome installation.
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### Author:  [@tgxworld](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tgxworld)
#### Post date: [29 באפריל, 2016, 3:43pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-to-homescreen-banner-on-android/42973/42 "2016-04-29T15:43:02Z")
Ahh since this is configurable on chrome, I dont think we should force standalone mode just to have the app in its individual tab in the app switcher?
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### Author:  [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)
#### Post date: [29 באפריל, 2016, 4:02pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-to-homescreen-banner-on-android/42973/43 "2016-04-29T16:02:58Z")
Hmmm, do you know if we get splash screen on browser mode?
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### Author:  [@charleswalter](https://meta.discourse.org/u/charleswalter)
#### Post date: [29 באפריל, 2016, 4:22pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-to-homescreen-banner-on-android/42973/44 "2016-04-29T16:22:47Z")
Um, @tgxworld @falco, not to go crazy on this, but what if this were just a configurable setting by the community admin on whether they want to display the URL bar or not for their community when site added to home screen. In the end, the setting resides in html, no?
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### Author:  [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)
#### Post date: [29 באפריל, 2016, 4:26pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-to-homescreen-banner-on-android/42973/45 "2016-04-29T16:26:28Z")
That would be the last resort.
The ideal would be **user defined** but it makes sense to prompt on installation, and we can’t intercept on that moment.
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### Author:  [@tobiaseigen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tobiaseigen)
#### Post date: [29 באפריל, 2016, 5:23pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-to-homescreen-banner-on-android/42973/46 "2016-04-29T17:23:45Z")
FWIW I find the “splash screen” confusing - it just sits there and you have to know to tap it with your finger to open the discourse site. I’d rather just go straight to the site. Perhaps other users will have the same confused experience.
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### Author:  [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)
#### Post date: [29 באפריל, 2016, 5:26pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-to-homescreen-banner-on-android/42973/47 "2016-04-29T17:26:22Z")
You don’t have to tap.
Discourse opens after the splash screen when the assets are loaded automatically.
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### Author:  [@tobiaseigen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tobiaseigen)
#### Post date: [29 באפריל, 2016, 5:28pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-to-homescreen-banner-on-android/42973/48 "2016-04-29T17:28:17Z")
whoa - you’re right! 🙂 didn’t notice that. is that why there is a splash screen?
what if it takes long to load - should there be a progress indicator? I just tried with my site and it took a good 10-15 seconds to load discussions.
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### Author:  [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)
#### Post date: [29 באפריל, 2016, 5:33pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-to-homescreen-banner-on-android/42973/49 "2016-04-29T17:33:30Z")
Yeah a progress bar would be nice, but the page is created by chrome, the application has no control over it, other than icon, name, background color and top bar color.
However, since the header rewrite its way faster. And the fact that it keeps the app on memory for much more (maybe placebo, gotta confirm) makes a full load very rare.
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### Author:  [@tobiaseigen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tobiaseigen)
#### Post date: [29 באפריל, 2016, 5:37pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-to-homescreen-banner-on-android/42973/50 "2016-04-29T17:37:37Z")
Perhaps another idea would be to display a message there while the user waits, which would be admin-settable. Or we could display a fortune cookie! Plugin territory.. 😉
> **[fortune (Unix)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortune_(Unix))**
>
> fortune is a program that displays a pseudorandom message from a database of quotations.
> Early versions of the program appeared in Version 7 Unix in 1979.
> The most common version on modern systems is the BSD fortune, originally written by Ken Arnold. Distributions of fortune are usually bundled with a collection of themed files, containing sayings like those found on fortune cookies (hence the name), quotations from famous people, jokes, or poetry.
> fortune is predominantly found on Unix-like sys...
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### Author:  [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)
#### Post date: [29 באפריל, 2016, 5:46pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-to-homescreen-banner-on-android/42973/51 "2016-04-29T17:46:13Z")
> [@tobiaseigen](#):
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> Perhaps another idea would be to display a message there while the user waits, which would be admin-settable. Or we could display a fortune cookie! Plugin territory.. 😉
Like I said
> [@Falco](#):
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> the application has no control over it
😇
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### Author:  [@downey](https://meta.discourse.org/u/downey)
#### Post date: [29 באפריל, 2016, 6:00pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-to-homescreen-banner-on-android/42973/52 "2016-04-29T18:00:40Z")
I strongly recommend people take a look at a few other non-Discourse sites using this “add to homescreen” feature to compare how they work. 🙂
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [29 באפריל, 2016, 6:48pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-to-homescreen-banner-on-android/42973/53 "2016-04-29T18:48:49Z")
As in.. what’s your point? Can you just elaborate rather than giving us arbitrary work to do? Thanks.
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### Author:  [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)
#### Post date: [17 במאי, 2016, 5:47pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-to-homescreen-banner-on-android/42973/54 "2016-05-17T17:47:47Z")
Just adding a feature point:
After switching my Moto X 2014 to a Nexus 6p, the Discourse Meta home screen shortcut was automatically migrated!
Even using different launchers, Nova to Google, made no difference, the shortcut survives. 😄
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### Author:  [@dax](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dax)
#### Post date: [17 ביולי, 2016, 11:18am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-to-homescreen-banner-on-android/42973/55 "2016-07-17T11:18:48Z")
You can easily add a launcher banner even if your site is **HTTP** on Chrome (same steps on post [#13](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-to-homescreen-banner-on-android/42973/13)), but you can use others browser too.
With **Opera** -latest version\*- (not tested on Opera-Mini):
1. go to the site you want to add to your homescreen
2. click on ➕ near the address bar and choose “Add to Homescreen”
It’s a bit more complicated with **Firefox** -latest version\*- :
1. go to the site you want to add
2. open the context menu and click ⭐ to add your site to Bookmarks
3. click on Bookmarks
4. long press on your site and click “Add to Homescreen”
The same steps if you use **Dolphin Browser** (but the icon added is a Dolphin standard icon).
~~(pretty sure there is a simple way to do that without using Bookmarks)~~
**EDIT** : on **Firefox** , a long click on address bar and you can choose “add to homescreen”
\*both installed today, so I haven’t tested old versions
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### Author:  [@Pad\_Pors](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Pad_Pors)
#### Post date: [1 באוגוסט, 2016, 4:45pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-to-homescreen-banner-on-android/42973/56 "2016-08-01T16:45:35Z")
the banner isn’t shown itself for our forum, though it has the https condition.
is there a way to check what the problem is? or is there any condition for the browser-version?
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### Author:  [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)
#### Post date: [1 באוגוסט, 2016, 5:29pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-to-homescreen-banner-on-android/42973/57 "2016-08-01T17:29:04Z")
Can you share a link? I’ll debug it for you.
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### Author:  [@Pad\_Pors](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Pad_Pors)
#### Post date: [1 באוגוסט, 2016, 8:43pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-to-homescreen-banner-on-android/42973/58 "2016-08-01T20:43:10Z")
thanks 🙂
[https://discourse.padpors.com](https://discourse.padpors.com) is the link to our forum.
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### Author:  [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)
#### Post date: [1 באוגוסט, 2016, 8:59pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-to-homescreen-banner-on-android/42973/59 "2016-08-01T20:59:21Z")
Ok, that some **heavy customization**. You really need to tone it down. You have **two body tags** , and the first one is **inside the head**.
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### Author:  [@Pad\_Pors](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Pad_Pors)
#### Post date: [2 באוגוסט, 2016, 8:19am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-to-homescreen-banner-on-android/42973/60 "2016-08-02T08:19:09Z")
Many thanks Rafael, I’ve tried to make it lighter, also remove that body tag inside the header. and it worked 😃
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