Touch icons on Android home screen [#742142]

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.

Comments

andrewmacpherson commented 17 July 2010 at 18:18

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

andrewmacpherson commented 13 March 2011 at 00:22

Issue tags:

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

andrewmacpherson commented 14 May 2011 at 13:20

Status:

Postponed (maintainer needs more info)

» Closed (works as designed)

andrewmacpherson commented 17 May 2017 at 13:20

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