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Iron Contributor

Aug 04, 2020

PWA icon?

Hi, What does Edge use as a icon, when creating a PWA from a website? We created some PWA's of our websites for testing, but all of the PWA's just show a letter on a gray background. In Android, ...

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RobWuijster

Iron Contributor

Aug 06, 2020

Reza_Ameri-Archived
Hi, I'm not using ASP fot the PWA or sites. I just install the website as an app from the 'Manage Apps' functionality.

I added all social media images & icons functionality for the websites according to the rules of Apple, Google, FB and Twitter. On all these platforms it is working, as expected.

What I want to know is how to add an icon in the site code, so creating a PWA from a website is showing me the correct icon.

I looked at code from several websites that work, but cannot see anything out of the ordinary compared to my websites?

Reza_Ameri-Archived

Bronze Contributor

Aug 07, 2020

RobWuijster in case you are facing this issue with other websites, you need to contact website owner and ask them to add icon on their websites.

geoken2
Brass Contributor
Dec 23, 2020
There should definitely be a built in way to override this. It seems like a stretch to have to reach out to the owner of a website and have them add a favicon for what amounts to a change on the users end.

This is especially true when a site actually displays an icon correctly in the browser (since the browser is presumably looking at the link rel=icon tag).
- HotCakeX
  MVP
  Dec 23, 2020
  geoken2 RobWuijster
  Hi,
  a comment from Edge developer about this issue (which I personally had before)
  Re: How to customize Start Menu tiles? - Microsoft Tech Community
  
  more info about it:
  Adaptive icon support in PWAs with maskable icons (web.dev)