So I have been struggling with this issue for a while and thanks to the great support of WIX I managed to solve this and just wanted everyone to have this trick up their sleeves for every app or website you create using WIX Code and want the website to open up just like a fullscreen native app.
When a user adds your site to their home screen which I always recommend them to do if it is a app or something they will need often.
This is for iOS only but you can easily Google to the settings for Android.
Go to your Dashboard
Select the site
Click Manage Site
Go to SEO tab
Header Code - Meta Tags section allows adding custom Meta tags for the whole site
The above was a tip from WIX support and then you add the following text into the header form input field.
The above will add WIX Sweden as the title under the icon and it will be the favicon image that will be your apps icon on the phone.
The above will make the website / web app open up in full screen, no more safari header or footer, just your newly created app in lovely full screen.
It is just awesome and will be very nice doing apps and applications in WOX Code and make them open in full screen.
I literally just started researching how to do this very thing yesterday! Andreas, you just saved me a ton of time! Thank you! I will be implementing in the next week or so.
Guys, that is an awesome trick but it seems not to work for me … I entered the meta tag for Android as per attachment, I added the corresponding website as a shortcut (using SGC as the name) on my Mobile Home Page but the site appears normally in the browser
Another question: some users have Apple, some have Android. If I want to make it app-compatible for both, shall I add both types of lines in the SEO tab / Header Code?
this might be a stupid question but does this mean I can have notifications pushed to the phone natively? Or does this mean i still have to use email for notifications?
I think Andreas made a Huge contribution that works perfectly for pages that want to work as progressive web apps like stores of some kind, or internal pages for a company. That means pages people NEEDS to have at home screen because they will be using them a lot. For the kind of pages that only exist as an information source that has some iframes linked to external htmls that we want to make full page, there’s no way to do it in iOS. There’s a trick that works smoothly in android, but completely fails in iOS. This could be solved someway with wix code I’m pretty sure. But we need more Wix people involved in this very important topic…
This is an old post you are commenting on. If you have coding questions, post a new question.
Furthermore, t his forum is dedicated to Corvid. For questions that are not related to code you can contact the Wix support team . You’ll get better help for your problem there.
