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by lucid00 4365 days ago
All web devs and Android app devs need now is an API for an app to dynamically add icons to the app drawer, so that web apps can be added to the app drawer via Google Chrome.

The permissions for this will have to be on an app by app basis, since I'm sure this is a feature that'd be ripe for abuse.
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rbrcurtis 4363 days ago
IOS already has an api by which a web dev can specify what the app icon looks like when the user adds the web page to their home screen. I imagine google would use the same api or something very similar.

https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/AppleA...

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