Icon for private network websites

[zivkr2]

Applicationize is unable to fetch the favicon from private network websites that require VPN for accesses.

The suggested solution is to create a generic icon from the first letter of the domain name,
like the default icon in the gmail app, a simple colored circle with the First letter centered inside.

use this icon for hxxps://fakeinternalsite.com for example

[eladnava]

@zivkr2 Excellent idea!

I was able to create a generic icon with a white, thin Roboto letter using the following SVG:

<svg width="512" height="512">
  <circle cx="230" cy="230" r="230" fill="#E91E63" />
  <text x="230" y="235" alignment-baseline="central" text-anchor="middle" fill="#fff" font-size="275" font-weight="100" font-family="Roboto">X</text>
</svg>

This is how it looks:

What do you think? If you like the way it looks, we'll need to generate an SVG for each letter and number (A-Z, 0-9) and improve the crx generator code to use these images if the web app URL fails to load for some reason.

[eladnava]

@zivkr2 I created a Material letter icons generator in Node.js:
https://github.com/eladnava/material-letter-icons

Now all that's left is to integrate the generated icons into Applicationize. =)

[eladnava]

@zivkr2 It has been implemented. We now support unreachable URLs! Give it a shot at https://applicationize.me.