Does 'meta Name="google-play-app"' Work?

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 v

Solution 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:

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

Then include smart banner:

<linkhref="jquery.smartbanner.css"type="text/css"media="screen"><scriptsrc="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.8/jquery.min.js"></script><scriptsrc="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

Solution 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"}]

Solution 3:

EDIT: apparently this doesn't work, despite Google's documentation.

According to developer.android's guide to Linking to Your Products, if the HTML link to the app is http://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=package_name, the corresponding Android link would be market://details?id=package_name. This should link users directly to a specific app's product details page on Google Play.