is there an equivalent to iOS 6 meta tag apple-mobile-web-app-title
for android web-applications? Something that gives you the possibility to define a long title and a short title.
<title>Long name</title>
<meta name="apple-mobile-web-app-title" content="Short name">
One way you can do this is by using javascript to detect the mobile browser and then change document.title to a shorter title:
Chrome has added support for JSON-based manifest file for your web app since M39. The field
short_name
is equivalent to Safari'sapple-mobile-web-app-title
in that it would be preferred where there is limited space to display the full name, e.g. app launcher.W3C spec for
short_name
field in web app manifest file:This is possible using the "application-name" meta tag. However it only appears to work with chrome. Firefox and the android browser don't use the title tag
From, Usage in web applications section
http://w3c-webmob.github.io/installable-webapps/