How can I autorun Android Chrome homescreen app on startup

Question

After adding a certain website to homescreen through Chrome for Android, I'm looking for a way to autorun that homescreen app as the device boots up. I found a few apps in the Google Play store that offer that behaviour but they don't list Chrome homescreen apps as possible to autorun on boot.

Any solution, anyone?

Answer 1

Unfortunately, there is no solution right now. Chrome homescreen apps work slightly differently from regular apps. Please read here for the full details: https://developer.chrome.com/multidevice/android/installtohomescreen

Specifically, Google developers have mentioned that Android can not detect Chrome homescreen apps as installed.

Do not prompt the user to add your app to the homescreen. There is no way to detect if the app is running installed or not.

So by extension, you are not able to run them at startup.

Answer 2

Running homescreen apps on device boot up might be tricky since Android cannot detect them as installed, but here is a workaround you might be interested in:

• Install AutoStart - No root on your Android device
• In the app, Set "Auto startup" to ON
• Add Chrome to the Applications list

• In Chrome, add the page you wish to launch as the browser start page

• Optional - Install a secondary browser and repeat the steps above in order to avoid interfering with the start screen of your regular browser

• Optional - Install an app like Fulscrn Free or similar and add your browser to the list of apps that run in full screen mode.

This way, every time you boot up the device, a browser will launch with the page you designate, almost as if it is launching the homescreen app.