wefwef is an awesome web app, but the (imo) relatively generic app icon doesn’t reach the same level of polish as the rest of the beautiful app. Any chance we get a more custom and unique icon?

  • fer0nOPEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Not if you want to have it on the homescreen and not open safari when you tap on it, that only works for apps not web apps and even for apps it’s not ideal.

    • another_kbin_addict@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      Ah, I guess because you’d have to make the change before saving to home, right ?

      So we can’t programmatically update the PWA manifest and favicons, since “save to home” isn’t a logged in user?

      Unless… maybe a query param for theming? 🧐

      • fer0nOPEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        Yeah, I’m pretty sure on iOS you‘d have to delete and add it again (which I certainly wouldn’t mind). If you can actually switch the icon that way I‘d be more than happy to have that, though.

          • fer0nOPEnglish
            2·
            1 year ago

            On iOS 17 at least I don’t think it does. I’m pretty sure there was an option to choose a custom image when adding a website to your homepage, but that sadly doesn’t work anymore.

              • fer0nOPEnglish
                4·
                1 year ago

                This is the best you can do on iOS right now if you want to have a web app with a custom icon on your homescreen that doesn’t open safari if you tap on it: video.

                It opens a little safari window which reloads from scratch every time you open it via the icon. Not ideal.

                Adding it the normal way (which doesn’t let you customize the icon) makes it behave pretty much like a native app: full screen and keeps its state every time you tap on the icon.