Google Chrome is the quintessential browser on Android. Thanks to it we can use all kinds of tricks, in addition to having many useful functions available, such as its new navigation gestures. The usual thing is that it is used regularly when visiting websites on the phone. In addition, it is common that there are some pages that you visit more frequently than others.
Therefore, have a direct access to your favorite website on your Android phone may be of interest. Since in this way it will be possible for you to access it directly, without having to carry out all the steps in Google Chrome. The reality is that this is very easy to achieve.
Most of the browsers currently available for Android, which are quite a few, have a possibility of create a shortcut to a web page. Although in this case we are going to use Google Chrome, which is the most used by most users in the operating system. But the steps do not usually change much in other options.
So if you regularly visit a website in the browser on your phone, you can access it directly with a simple trick. What will allow you to always be up to date with what is happening, in case it is a news website or a newspaper. What do we have to do in this regard?
Create shortcut on Android
The first that we have to do is to open the browser that we use on our Android phone. In this case it is Google Chrome, as we have already mentioned. Then, we have to enter in the address bar, the address of the web that interests us in this case. If you are big fans of the operating system, you can make use of Androidsis in this case. We enter the address and enter the web therefore.
At the top of Google Chrome, to the right of the web address, we see that there is an icon with three vertical dots. We then have to click on that icon. By doing this, a contextual menu opens, where we have a series of options available. Thanks to them we can carry out all kinds of actions in the browser. One of the options that we find in this list is called Add to the main screen. This is the option that interests us.
Therefore, we click on it. Next, we are going to be asked to give this shortcut a name that we are going to create in Android. You can bet on giving it the name of the website for which you are creating said access, if you want. A name that will be easy for you to recognize at all times. So, when we have chosen the name, you just have to click on the add button. So that this shortcut will be officially created on the main screen on Android.
With these steps we have already completed the process. In fact, we will be able to see that when we go to the main screen of our Android phone, an icon with the direct access appears in it, which has the name we have given it. What it allows us is that by opening said direct access, we will go directly to said website in a very simple way. Undoubtedly, a very useful function in the browser, which we will be able to use whenever we want. It is an operation that we can repeat as many times as we want.
Since the browser has no limits when creating direct links. Therefore, if there are a couple of websites that you visit frequently on Android, you can have direct access to them. Thus, instead of having to open Google Chrome and enter the URL, you will be able to enter the website directly whenever you want.
This option is not available when Chrome browser is installed on the Amazon Fire HD8 android. Yes it is in firefox, but when you ask it to create the shortcut, it tells you that it has created it but it is not actually created.
Neither are the play store apps compatible with creating a shortcut to a website.
Any suggestions?
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