Does 'meta name="google-play-app"' work?

Question

When you have a (mobile) site, and corresponding mobile apps for your site, there are meta-tags for iOS and Windows 8 to open a standard notification on the platform to tell your visitor about the app, and lead him to it in the appstore. Now, I've found some vage reference on the nets to the android version:

<meta name="google-play-app" content="app-id 

But I can't find any trusted reference to it. So I'm asking the question here: Does this meta-tag work on Android?

Answer 1

Does this meta tag works in Android ? No.
Can it be handled ? Yes.

iOS 6 and later, natively shows a smart banner that reminds browser user, about the mobile application. But android doesn't support this natively.

To have this banner in android browsers you can use a jquery plugin: https://github.com/jasny/jquery.smartbanner

First add this:

<meta name="google-play-app" content="app-id=com.mygood.id"> 

Then include smart banner:

<link rel="stylesheet" href="jquery.smartbanner.css" type="text/css" media="screen"> <script src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.8/jquery.min.js"></script> <script src="jquery.smartbanner.js"></script> 

At last initialize it:

$.smartbanner({   title: 'My good title',   author: 'My smart author' }); 

Source: http://www.dunnsolutions.com/content/application-development-blog/-/blogs/smart-app-banners-for-ios-and-android
Related: Creating an android smart app banner

Answer 2

You could look at adding this to your web app manifest instead. At least for Chrome and FireFox.

When adding the properties prefer_related_applications and related_applications along with name and icons you should get prompted.

Example copied from developer.google.com:

"prefer_related_applications": true, "related_applications": [   {     "platform": "play",     "id": "com.google.samples.apps.iosched"   } ]