{"id":29161,"date":"2017-02-08T21:01:11","date_gmt":"2017-02-08T13:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hongkiat.com\/blog\/?p=29161"},"modified":"2017-02-08T19:38:25","modified_gmt":"2017-02-08T11:38:25","slug":"pin-websites-to-android","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hongkiat.com\/blog\/pin-websites-to-android\/","title":{"rendered":"You Can Pin Websites to Your Android App Drawer Soon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back in 2015, Google introduced a feature to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hongkiat.com\/blog\/chrome-android-offline-downloads\/\">Chrome for Android<\/a> that allows users to pin website shortcuts to their Home screen. In 2017, Google is going one step further as an upcoming update for the beta version of Chrome for Android will <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.chromium.org\/2017\/02\/integrating-progressive-web-apps-deeply.html\">allow users to pin websites to Android\u2019s app drawer<\/a> as well.<\/p>\n<p class=\"recommended_top\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<strong>Read Also:<\/strong>\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hongkiat.com\/blog\/speed-up-android-chrome-browser\/\">How to Speed Up Your Android Chrome Browser<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Not all websites can be pinned to the app drawer as <strong>Google will be limiting this feature<\/strong> to websites that qualify as a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/web.dev\/progressive-web-apps\/\">Progressive Web App<\/a>. However, if a website fulfills the criteria, said websites will be able to <strong>gain access to the standard Android notification management controls<\/strong> instead of Chrome\u2019s notification management controls.<\/p>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.hongkiat.com\/uploads\/pin-websites-to-android\/01-progressive-web-app.gif\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" alt=\"progressive web app\"><\/figure>\n<p>For now, the feature will only <strong>be made available for Chrome for Android beta<\/strong>. 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