Touch icons on Android home screen [#742142]

Posted by andrewmacpherson on March 14, 2010 at 5:47pm

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Issue Summary

I've discovered that newer versions of the Android OS support Apple's touch icon format.

Both rel='apple-touch-icon' and rel='apple-touch-icon-precomposed' are recognised.

Rooting around in the developer reference confirms this; there's a method in Android's WebChrome Client class to handle touch icons.

I haven't had a chance to play with this on an actual Android device yet! Perhaps I should go and do some window shopping :-)

This doesn't require much action, except perhaps some documentation.

Posted by andrewmacpherson on July 17, 2010 at 6:18pm

Android homepage bookmarking apparently requires an absolute URL, not a relative one :-)

Posted by andrewmacpherson on March 13, 2011 at 12:22am

Android doesn't recognize icons placed in the web root, only icons referenced in link elements
Android 2.1 only recognizes the precomposed type.

Posted by andrewmacpherson on May 14, 2011 at 1:20pm

Status:

postponed (maintainer needs more info)

» closed (works as designed)