creating URL on tablet startscreen

[boudemans]

When I want to access an URL in Android such as www.homepage/page/subpage.com directly from startscreen, there are three possibilities:

1) the browser option "add to startscreen" is there and it works

2) the browser option "add to startscreen" is there, but it leads me to www.homepage.com. I still have to navigate to the page of interest.

3) the browser option "add to startscreen" is not available.

It seems that the Website determines which option is available, since it seems independent of the browser used (Firefox, Chrome, Brave).

Is there maybe a trick to have the app / link on the startscreen with the full URL?

My point is that it is always possible in Windows to have a direct link on the desktop to the Webpage I am interested in, but that seems not always possible in Android.

 

[ocnbrze]

what tablet do you have? on my galaxy tab A (2019) i can go to my chrome browser hit the 3 dots in the upper right corner and select add to home screen and it will add exactly the page that it was on the browser.

 

[boudemans]

Thanks for reaction. Tablet is rather old (Samsung Tab S2) and Android 7.
Can you check whether it is possible to have a startscreen link with the following URL:
https://news.google.com/topstories?hl=de&gl=DE&ceid=DE:de
It should give German news.
In my case it changes to Dutch news (tablet language is Dutch).
Another example is:
https://aquaforum.nl/forums/vijvers.35/
The startscreen link does not directly give the "vijvers" page but leads to the homepage.
I am curious whether it might be possible now with higher Android versions.