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How to recommend a native app when viewing web app in devices?


Have you ever used gmail in your Android or iOS using your browser. While browsing it you get a small popup at the top saying that to view/install the native gmail app available at Google Play or AppStore. How do you do that? Is that feature done using html, css, and JS. Or is it built-in to native app?

By the way, this doesn't happen only for gmail but pretty much all the professional apps with both web apps and native apps.


Solution

  • On iOS, you're thinking of Smart App Banners, which are a website configuration detail to display a banner for the user to view your iOS app in the App Store:

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