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Maskable App Icons (PWA - Android)

Category

Miscellaneous

Type

New or changed feature

Status

Enabled by default (Chrome 79)

Intent stage

Prepare to ship

Summary

Allow Maskable ("Adaptive") icons for installed WebAPKs on Android.

Standards & signals

• Specification: https://www.w3.org/TR/appmanifest/#icon-masks
• Firefox: In development — Already implemented in Firefox nightly/preview
• Safari: No signal
• Web developers: No signals
• Tracking bug: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1006273

Docs: https://web.dev/maskable-icon/

Explainers: https://github.com/w3c/manifest/issues/555

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