Awesome collection of meta tags and manifest.json properties available for building progressive web applications.
- Google Chrome
- Mozilla Firefox
- Opera
- Edge
- Safari
- Google Chrome
- Firefox
- Opera
- Safari
- UC Browser (partial support like fullscreen control etc,)
<!-- Must -->
<meta charset="utf-8">
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width,initial-scale=1,minimum-scale=1,maximum-scale=1,user-scalable=no">
<meta name="description" content="Description">
<meta name="keywords" content="Keywords">
<title>Page Title</title>
<!-- Android -->
<meta name="theme-color" content="red">
<meta name="mobile-web-app-capable" content="yes">
<!-- iOS -->
<meta name="apple-mobile-web-app-title" content="Application Title">
<meta name="apple-mobile-web-app-capable" content="yes">
<meta name="apple-mobile-web-app-status-bar-style" content="default">
<!-- Windows -->
<meta name="msapplication-navbutton-color" content="red">
<meta name="msapplication-TileColor" content="red">
<meta name="msapplication-TileImage" content="ms-icon-144x144.png">
<meta name="msapplication-config" content="browserconfig.xml">
<!-- Pinned Sites -->
<meta name="application-name" content="Application Name">
<meta name="msapplication-tooltip" content="Tooltip Text">
<meta name="msapplication-starturl" content="/">
<!-- Tap highlighting -->
<meta name="msapplication-tap-highlight" content="no">
<!-- UC Mobile Browser -->
<meta name="full-screen" content="yes">
<meta name="browsermode" content="application">
<!-- Disable night mode for this page -->
<meta name="nightmode" content="enable/disable">
<!-- Fitscreen -->
<meta name="viewport" content="uc-fitscreen=yes"/>
<!-- Layout mode -->
<meta name="layoutmode" content="fitscreen/standard">
<!-- imagemode - show image even in text only mode -->
<meta name="imagemode" content="force">
<!-- Orientation -->
<meta name="screen-orientation" content="portrait">
<!-- Main Link Tags -->
<link href="favicon-16.png" rel="icon" type="image/png" sizes="16x16">
<link href="favicon-32.png" rel="icon" type="image/png" sizes="32x32">
<link href="favicon-48.png" rel="icon" type="image/png" sizes="48x48">
<!-- iOS -->
<link href="touch-icon-iphone.png" rel="apple-touch-icon">
<link href="touch-icon-ipad.png" rel="apple-touch-icon" sizes="76x76">
<link href="touch-icon-iphone-retina.png" rel="apple-touch-icon" sizes="120x120">
<link href="touch-icon-ipad-retina.png" rel="apple-touch-icon" sizes="152x152">
<!-- Startup Image -->
<link href="touch-icon-start-up-320x480.png" rel="apple-touch-startup-image">
<!-- Pinned Tab -->
<link href="path/to/icon.svg" rel="mask-icon" size="any" color="red">
<!-- Android -->
<link href="icon-192x192.png" rel="icon" sizes="192x192">
<link href="icon-128x128.png" rel="icon" sizes="128x128">
<!-- Others -->
<link href="favicon.icon" rel="shortcut icon" type="image/x-icon">
<!-- UC Browser -->
<link href="images/icon-52x52.png" rel="apple-touch-icon-precomposed" sizes="57x57">
<link href="images/icon-72x72.png" rel="apple-touch-icon" sizes="72x72">
<!-- Manifest.json -->
<link href="/manifest.json" rel="manifest">
{
"name": "app name",
"short_name": "short name",
"icons": [{
"src": "images/icons/icon-48x48.png",
"sizes": "48x48",
"type": "image/png"
},
{
"src": "images/icons/icon-72x72.png",
"sizes": "72x72",
"type": "image/png"
},
{
"src": "images/icons/icon-96x96.png",
"sizes": "96x96",
"type": "image/png"
},
{
"src": "images/icons/icon-144x144.png",
"sizes": "144x144",
"type": "image/png"
},
{
"src": "images/icons/icon-168x168.png",
"sizes": "168x168",
"type": "image/png"
},
{
"src": "images/icons/icon-192x192.png",
"sizes": "192x192",
"type": "image/png"
},
{
"src": "images/icons/icon-256x256.png",
"sizes": "256x256",
"type": "image/png"
}],
"gcm_sender_id": "",
"gcm_user_visible_only": true,
"start_url": "/?utm_source=homescreen",
"permissions": [
"gcm"
],
"orientation": "",
"display": "standalone",
"theme_color": "#ffffff",
"background_color": "#ffffff"
}
- Icons for manifest.json, doesn't need to have many icons. Adding
192px
size icon will scale perfectly for most of the devices.
- In safari mobile browser, add to home screen will add black background for icon if its in PNG format. Make it as JPG to work.
-
Meta tag
browsermode
is not working. -
Link tag
icon
for home screen is not working.