{"id":8348,"date":"2017-02-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-02-07T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bxglobal.wpengine.com\/au\/uncategorized\/create-buildxact-shortcut-phone-tablet\/"},"modified":"2025-06-16T15:48:22","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T05:48:22","slug":"create-buildxact-shortcut-phone-tablet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.buildxact.com\/au\/blog\/create-buildxact-shortcut-phone-tablet\/","title":{"rendered":"Create a Buildxact shortcut on your phone or tablet!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s how you can get Buildxact on your home screen for easy access on your smart phone or tablet!\u00a0 Follow the instructions below from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/196087\/how-to-add-websites-to-the-home-screen-on-any-smartphone-or-tablet\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HowtoGeek.com<\/a> and you&#8217;ll have <a href=\"\/au\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Buildxact<\/a> at the tips of your fingers in no time.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><u><strong>Android<\/strong><\/u><\/h3>\n<p>Launch Chrome for Android and open <a href=\"https:\/\/app.buildxact.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Buildxact<\/a>.\u00a0Tap the menu button and tap Add to homescreen. You\u2019ll be able to enter a name for the shortcut eg. <a href=\"https:\/\/app.buildxact.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Buildxact<\/a> and then Chrome will add it to your home screen.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-69321 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.buildxact.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/03\/buildXACT-Shortcut-1-300x180.png\" alt=\"buildxact Shortcut 1\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The icon will appear on your home screen like any other app shortcut or widget, so you can drag it around and put it wherever you like. Chrome for Android loads the website as a \u201cweb app\u201d when you tap the icon, so it will get its own entry in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/163624\/welcome-to-android-a-beginners-guide-to-getting-started-with-android\/\">the app switcher<\/a>\u00a0and won\u2019t have any browser interface getting in the way.<\/p>\n<p>Other popular Android browsers also offer this feature. For example, Firefox for Android can do this if you tap the menu button, tap the Page option, and tap Add to Home Screen.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><u><strong>iPhone, iPad, &amp; iPod Touch<\/strong><\/u><\/h3>\n<p>Launch the Safari browser on Apple\u2019s iOS and navigate to <a href=\"https:\/\/app.buildxact.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Buildxact<\/a>. Tap the Share button on the browser\u2019s toolbar \u2014 that\u2019s the rectangle with an arrow pointing upward. 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