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Is there a way to customize a favorite or bookmark icon for Android?

I know for Apple it's <link rel="apple-touch-icon" href="favIcon.jpg"> or a regular website it's <link rel="icon" type="image/png" href="favIcon.jpg">

but for Android I'm still left with this image on the springboard enter image description here

SnowboardBruin
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  • possible duplicate of [Android | bookmark icons on homescreen](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4215047/android-bookmark-icons-on-homescreen) – Zuul Sep 18 '12 at 18:43

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For Android to pick up the icon you need a precomposed icon

<link rel="apple-touch-icon-precomposed" href="/apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png"/>

For more details see these links:

  1. Android Bookmark icons
  2. Configuring Android Web Applications
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K_Anas
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  • works fine for me without precomposed, on a Nexus S (still on 2.3.7 though) – Robot Woods Jun 28 '12 at 16:22
  • it might just be a device issue. my Incredible had just the flag before, now with the pre-compressed it adds the icon inside the flag (not perfect, but better than just the flag itself) and my Xoom now shows just the icon, exactly how i want it. – SnowboardBruin Jun 28 '12 at 19:25
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On my Samsung SII apple-touch-icon-precomposed is also displayed in the bookmark flag. That's ugly. It have upgraded to Android 4.0 ICS few weeks ago, I think that it is the problem. In the previous version of Android (3.xx), the icon was the one expected.

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