Fast and simple.IOS Safari users can add any webpage to their home screen. You’ll now find a new icon on your home screen.Then hit the Share button in the toolbar and select Add to Home Screen.Shortcuts will launch a browser page (Safari) that looks like the one below.When you run the shortcut, you’ll be prompted to enter the URL scheme and a name for it, and then prompted to choose an icon (I’d recommend choosing the colour scheme and glyph you want in step 3 above).In the shortcut’s settings, design an icon.And there is one Base64 Encode action - do this once in the HTML.There are two Ask for Input actions so select the magic variables appropriately - do this for 4 instances in the HTML.Replace the items in square backets with the appropriate Magic Variables: The contents of the Text action, fourth item from the bottom, is the HTML shown above.Create the actions with the parameters as shown above.
Also, because I would rather the OS create the rounded corners, I use apple-touch-icon dropping the -precompose suffix. A quick fix is to crop a bunch of pixels.
All I need to do is change the icon of this shortcut itself and select that.Īlas, the shape of icons generated by Shortcuts is slightly off (the background mask is not quite right). My idea was to use the icons in Shortcuts itself, lots of nice colours and glyphs! What a brilliant idea if I may say so myself. Hit Cancel, then tap Share > Add to Home Screenīut, the icon, oh the icon. I ended up with something really simple: Try 3: My simpler faster ShortcutĪll I need is a minimal HTML page to redirect the Web App to the URL scheme using a tag. and that URL is passed to Safari.īoth the methods described so far use similar Javascript and both add other nice touches like instructions, graphics, and so on.īut, I want to get rid of all that to make the Web App small and fast! Minimum HTML with no JavaScript, no CSS and certainly no images for me! So. Viticci’s version, on the other hand, encodes the image in-line e.g.: įinally, the HTML (with Javascript and any in-line images) are all Base64 encoded as data:text/html base64. Shortcuts uses an internal web server to serve the icon, e.g.: Var ev = document.createEvent('MouseEvents') Įv.initEvent('click',true,true,faultView,1,0,0,0,0,false,false,false,false,0,null) So the Shortcuts HTML page contains Javascript that checks if “standalone,” then start a timer, that when triggered, emulates a mouse click on link to the URL scheme: You can determine whether a webpage is displaying in standalone mode using the read-only Boolean JavaScript property.
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Plus an optional launch screen start-up image.A Web App (strictly a Progressive Web App or PWA) is just a HTML! There are Apple-specific tags that are required in the HTML page that make it a Web App, which in turn allows it to be added to the Home Screen: Clever! Selecting Dolphin Browser on the App Store give me dock exactly as I had before! How it worksīehind the scenes, the standard Shortcuts app and the Home Screen Icon creator use a full-screen Safari Web Application that then launches a URL scheme. send SMS messages ( message://), or email mailto://, or make a call tel://, and so on.įor the icon, his solution was to grab the icon from any app on the iOS App Store. URL Schemes are great because they can be used to launch apps with deep links to specific functions, e.g. shortcuts to the home screen, and created a way to launch any URL Scheme. He reverse engineered the way Shortcuts adds. Some sleuthing led me to Home Screen Icon Creator: A Shortcut to Create Custom Icons for Apps, Contacts, Solid Colors, and More by Federico Viticci on MacStories. In fact, strictly, it’s a Web App launching Shortcuts launching Firefox! You can see this in the multi-tasking interface. launching it is rather jarring and slow - since it first opens up Shortcuts and then flicks to Firefox. Hit the Share icon, and select Add to Home Screen. Next, in this shortcut’s settings, change the icon to use the green scheme with the globe glyph. Only a few actions needed to open Firefox’s URL Scheme, which I correctly deduced, was simply firefox://: Try 1: Shortcuts (previously known as Workflow.is)įirst I figured to try the iOS Shortcuts App. But I like this green colour scheme! Firefox’s icon is garish and out of place: However, I no longer use the third app - Dolphin browser - my go-to is Firefox. I’m so OCD that I want my home screen dock icons (the tray at the bottom) to be all of the same colour! Actually, changing an icon is not possible, but creating a new shortcut with an icon of my choice is! Here’s how I “changed” an app’s home screen icon on iPhone.
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