Fully support Android Chrome's "Add to Homescreen"

[Rob_Nicholson]

I just added more entries to get a better app feeling

Thumbs up for more app like feeling. “Why isn’t there an app for Discourse” is something that has been asked in our trial of the platform. Not an entirely easy answer for non-technical users.

[Falco]

Thumbs up for more app like feeling. “Why isn’t there an app for Discourse” is something that has been asked in our trial of the platform. Not an entirely easy answer for non-technical users.

Nice, this is the idea. With app banners landing somewhere after March (1.6 beta start) it will be even easier to non-tech to “install” Discourse.

However when I’ve just tried this with Discourse, it’s stuck in portrait mode - rotate to landscape doesn’t work.

Looks like the orientation on the manifest file isn’t a suggestion, but rather a lock . I will test when at home if I can safely remove this.

[codinghorror (Jeff Atwood)]

Any other tweaks needed here @falco?

[Falco]

Yes.

I need to:

• Check portrait lock
• Instantiate the service worker only on Android as per @eviltrout advice.

This week I can fix those.

[Falco]

I just did the changes pointed by @eviltrout

I’m open to make any adjustments.

[downey (Michael Downey)]

Loaded this today on Meta and my own site. Very nice!

But a question, how do I change the icons? Home screen icon is not matching our favicon and the splash screen is blank.

Also some people have the option and some don’t …

[Falco]

@downey

But a question, how do I change the icons? Home screen icon is not matching our favicon and the splash screen is blank.

It’s using apple_touch_icon_url,

@downey

Also some people have the option and some don’t …

It shows following google rules.

Fully support Android Chrome's "Add to Homescreen"

According to Google it does: Appear on the second visit: The user has visited your site at least twice, with at least five minutes between visits. If the user dismiss the banner it never comes back: If a user dismisses the banner, will it appear again? No. Not unless the user clears their history. We want to make sure users have a good experience. We will likely be changing all the heuristics over time. The implementation can get better, we can defer the banner till we feel like. Als…

[erlend_sh (Erlend Sogge Heggen)]

Great work on this!

You’re very welcome to start a (linked) fresh topic to properly introduce the feature, that way it’s easier to share in a tweet as well

[downey (Michael Downey)]

It shows following google rules.

I did manually remove both and then manually re-add them using the Chrome menu “Add to Home Screen” because I wanted a shorter title under the icon, e.g. just “Meta”.