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I still don't get homescreen apps. When I put a bookmark on my home screen, it just open safari to that page. It's not it's own app, all the other tabs are stil
by speg 7y ago
I still don't get homescreen apps. When I put a bookmark on my home screen, it just open safari to that page. It's not it's own app, all the other tabs are still there. /confused
- Nextgrid 7y agoYou need to put special markup in your HTML (and maybe some specific JS) for it to behave like an app and hide the tab bar.
- p2detar 7y agoIt depends on how the app is written I guess. For example, make a bookmark of this demo PWA app on your homescreen https://airhorner.com https://airhorner.com. Notice that it opens itself in a full screen mode, no safari controls are shown.
- speg 7y agoThanks! that's neat. I found this: > Set the apple-mobile-web-app-capable meta tag to yes to turn on standalone mode. https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/AppleApplications/Reference/SafariWebContent/ConfiguringWebApplications/ConfiguringWebApplications.html https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Ap...