Chrome Beta 47 Can Show Splash Screens For Web Apps Launched From The Home Screen, Display A Snackbar When Downloads Are Complete, And More By Bertel King, Jr. Published Oct 22, 2015 ...

Google is releasing the beta of Chrome 47 today that introduces as number of new features across platforms including new splash screens for Android web apps, improved management for push ...

New Google Phone, Messages, and Contacts app icons roll out [U] Like Gmail, Messages is one of the few Google apps to feature an animated splash screen for its icon on the web .

Home Screen web apps are not going away after all. Apple blames the ‘enormous amount of engineering’ it took to comply with the Digital Markets Act, but has reversed course.

When a web app is added to the iOS Home Screen, you can open and use it as if it were a regular app, which means you won’t be redirected to open it in Safari, Google Chrome, or another web browser.