How can I autorun Android Chrome homescreen app on startup

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kindofone picture kindofone · Aug 18, 2014 · Viewed 15.3k times · Source

After adding a certain website to homescreen through Chrome for Android, I'm looking for a way to autorun that homescreen app as the device boots up. I found a few apps in the Google Play store that offer that behaviour but they don't list Chrome homescreen apps as possible to autorun on boot.

Any solution, anyone?

Answer

bunbun picture bunbun · Jun 22, 2015

Unfortunately, there is no solution right now. Chrome homescreen apps work slightly differently from regular apps. Please read here for the full details: https://developer.chrome.com/multidevice/android/installtohomescreen

Specifically, Google developers have mentioned that Android can not detect Chrome homescreen apps as installed.

Do not prompt the user to add your app to the homescreen. There is no way to detect if the app is running installed or not.

So by extension, you are not able to run them at startup.

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