How to add a website link to the Home Screen on Android
What do you usually do to open the website? Firstly you launch the browser app. Then you tap on the address bar and then type the first words of the site’s name or tap on the icon in the favorite sites area. But do you know that you can access you favorite websites with one tap? Today we will tell you about a very easy but quite useful thing: how to create a shortcut to a website and add it to home screen on Android. This shortcut would be displayed on your home screen next to apps and would take you directly to a certain web page. In such a way you can quickly access you favorite websites right from the home screen.
How to add a website shortcut to the Home Screen on Android
Launch Google Chrome:
Go to the website or to the specific web page the shortcut should point to:
Press Menu and select Add to Home Screen:
Rename the shortcut if needed and tap ADD:
Drag the website shortcut wherever you want it to be:
Now you can go to that web page by tapping the icon on your home screen!
Adam Swift
Adam is a real tech maniac. He likes to spend time testing phones, tablets, laptops, as well as any other technical devices, and write practical manuals on their functions. He often sleeps all day, but always works at night. Adam bought his first computer in 1999, being an absolute beginner who never held a computer mouse in his hands. He began to study Windows, constantly experimented and often crashed the operating system. But six months later, he was able to reinstall Windows 98 from a scratch on his own, fix almost any software problem on a PC, he also did hardware upgrades and realized that computers, operating systems and programs are now his biggest passion. In addition, Adam has always been a big lover of phones. With the advent of smartphones with Android OS, he began to pick at them much more than in computers. Now Adam loves to study privacy issues in instant messengers, blocking unwanted calls and other nuances related to privacy and security on the network. You can follow him on Twitter: https://twitter.com/tunecomp