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Help please re a Web App on an iPhone
tdenson
13-07-2015
I have a web app that I installed some time ago on my home screen and I want to install it on another phone. Trouble is I've forgotten the details I used to get it there and I can't see an obvious way of finding them. It's working fine, I just want to replicate the settings on another phone.
oilman
13-07-2015
Install ES File manager and Task manager (from playstore) on your phone with the application installed.

Use ES Task Manager to make a backup copy of the application which it stores as an APK file.

Copy APK file to other phone (Dropbox or similar is an easy way to do this).

Install ES file manager on second phone, navigate to where you stored APK file and double click on it and it will install on new phone.

On one of my phones Demand 5 would not install saying it was not compatible. I use method above and it installed and worked fine!
d123
13-07-2015
Originally Posted by oilman:
“Install ES File manager and Task manager (from playstore) on your phone with the application installed.

Use ES Task Manager to make a backup copy of the application which it stores as an APK file.

Copy APK file to other phone (Dropbox or similar is an easy way to do this).

Install ES file manager on second phone, navigate to where you stored APK file and double click on it and it will install on new phone.

On one of my phones Demand 5 would not install saying it was not compatible. I use method above and it installed and worked fine!”

Quote:
“Help please re a Web App on an iPhone”

He might struggle with the Play Store, ES task Manager, ES File Manager and installing APK files .
tdenson
13-07-2015
Originally Posted by d123:
“He might struggle with the Play Store, ES task Manager, ES File Manager and installing APK files .”

Thanks
Roush
13-07-2015
Navigate to the relevant web page in Safari, tap the actions icon and choose 'Add to Home Screen' (in the bottom row).
tdenson
13-07-2015
Originally Posted by Roush:
“Navigate to the relevant web page in Safari, .”

But my whole point is that I don't know the address of the relevant page !
d123
13-07-2015
Originally Posted by tdenson:
“But my whole point is that I don't know the address of the relevant page !”

How about if you click the icon on the old phone, when it opens copy the address in Safari and email it to yourself, open the email on the new device and click the link to open the app and then save it on the new device.
tdenson
13-07-2015
Originally Posted by d123:
“How about if you click the icon on the old phone, when it opens copy the address in Safari and email it to yourself, open the email on the new device and click the link to open the app and then save it on the new device.”

Trouble is it opens full screen. If I could see the contents of the URL bar I wouldn't have a problem.
Roush
13-07-2015
Originally Posted by tdenson:
“But my whole point is that I don't know the address of the relevant page !”

But you must surely know enough about the web app to be able to find it via Google?
oilman
13-07-2015
Originally Posted by d123:
“He might struggle with the Play Store, ES task Manager, ES File Manager and installing APK files .”

Oopd - missed obvious! Still technique is good for android!
tdenson
13-07-2015
Originally Posted by Roush:
“But you must surely know enough about the web app to be able to find it via Google?”

No, it was developed by an obscure point of sale development outfit in Liverpool, it's not a public app. I can contact them and find out the details, but I have had this problem before with another app and I was interested in a generic solution to the problem i.e. finding out what the iPhone thinks the address is, I didn't expect it to be rocket science.
kidspud
13-07-2015
Originally Posted by tdenson:
“No, it was developed by an obscure point of sale development outfit in Liverpool, it's not a public app. I can contact them and find out the details, but I have had this problem before with another app and I was interested in a generic solution to the problem i.e. finding out what the iPhone thinks the address is, I didn't expect it to be rocket science.”

How about clicking on the web app and then looking at your browser history or adding it to book marks.
tdenson
13-07-2015
Originally Posted by kidspud:
“How about clicking on the web app and then looking at your browser history or adding it to book marks.”

It doesn't seem to appear in the browser history. Also, I can't add it as a bookmark as it is full screen and there is no top or bottom line that you normally see with mobile safari
Roush
13-07-2015
Do you have a Mac?

If so, toggle on Settings > Safari > Advanced > Web Inspector on the iPhone

Then turn on the developer menu in Safari on the Mac, plug the iPhone in and you'll be able to open up a web inspector (on the Mac) of the web app open on the iPhone.

It's a little long winded, but should get you the URL.

It sounds like your web app is using the apple-mobile-web-app-capable metadata tag, which suppresses the Safari UI by design.
tdenson
13-07-2015
Originally Posted by Roush:
“Do you have a Mac?

If so, toggle on Settings > Safari > Advanced > Web Inspector on the iPhone

Then turn on the developer menu in Safari on the Mac, plug the iPhone in and you'll be able to open up a web inspector (on the Mac) of the web app open on the iPhone.

It's a little long winded, but should get you the URL.

It sounds like your web app is using the apple-mobile-web-app-capable metadata tag, which suppresses the Safari UI by design.”

I'm running Safari 8.0.4 and I get to Web Inspector via preferences and enabling the Develop menu, but Web Inspector is grey'ed out
Roush
13-07-2015
In the Develop menu in Safari there should be a submenu with the name of your iPhone. That menu should show everything open in Safari on your iPhone, and you just click on what you want to look at.
tdenson
13-07-2015
Originally Posted by Roush:
“In the Develop menu in Safari there should be a submenu with the name of your iPhone. That menu should show everything open in Safari on your iPhone, and you just click on what you want to look at.”

The only device in the Develop menu is my MacBook
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