Android: Launch applications with display:minimal-ui in a custom tab (not a regular browser tab) |
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Issue descriptionOS: Android Apps added to home screen with display:browser are essentially regular web shortcuts (they just open a tab in Chrome, now that Merge Tabs and Apps is gone in M51). We'd like to experiment with giving these app shortcuts a more prominent place in the system (so you can think of them more like an app and less like an ephemeral web tab). One suggestion (by benwells@) was to use a Chrome custom tab to give it a minimal browser UI and its own place in the system task switcher.
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Jun 23 2016
That sounds right. I think display:browser should treat the icon just like a shortcut into Chrome in the regular browser mode. Showing display:minimal-ui sites in CCT sounds reasonable, although I highly doubt many (if any) developers would want that treatment so I suggest we freeze this task and focus on the many other improvements we can do with making to mobile web app installability.
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Jun 27 2016
I know of one web developer who wants it. He wrote a blog post about it in fact, which we all seemed to notice... |
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Comment 1 by benwells@chromium.org
, Jun 20 2016Summary: Android: Launch applications with display:minimal-ui in a custom tab (not a regular browser tab) (was: Android: Launch applications with display:browser in a custom tab (not a regular browser tab))