How to remove pinned shortcuts?

Question

Background

Starting with Android O, you can create pinned shortcuts that (on supported launchers) show a dialog to confirm their creation:

ShortcutInfoCompat pinShortcutInfo = new ShortcutInfoCompat.Builder(context, uniqueShortcutId) .setShortLabel(label) .setIntent(shortcutIntent) .setLongLabel(label) .setIcon(IconCompat.createWithBitmap(bitmap)) .build(); ShortcutManagerCompat.requestPinShortcut(this, pinShortcutInfo , null); 

Docs:

https://developer.android.com/reference/android/content/pm/ShortcutManager.html https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/shortcuts.html

Problem

Sometimes the attached shortcut is no longer relevant. For example, it indicates that it no longer exists.

In this case, I want to delete it.

What i tried

I thought this was possible with the following code, but it is not, because these are probably dynamic shortcuts, something else:

 ShortcutManager shortcutManager = (ShortcutManager) getSystemService(SHORTCUT_SERVICE); final List<ShortcutInfo> pinnedShortcuts = shortcutManager.getPinnedShortcuts(); final ArrayList<String> shortcutIdsToRemove = new ArrayList<>(); for (ShortcutInfo pinnedShortcut : pinnedShortcuts) { final Intent pinnedShortcutIntent = pinnedShortcut.getIntent(); shortcutIdsToRemove.add(pinnedShortcut.getId()); } shortcutManager.removeDynamicShortcuts(shortcutIdsToRemove); // this also doesn't work : shortcutManager.disableShortcuts(shortcutIdsToRemove); 

Question

How to delete deleted shortcuts? Is it possible?

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Update: It seems this is not possible, as Google mentioned here .

So far, this API seems very limited to me, as it has so many flaws:

• The created icon image cannot be created from the resource identifier.
• On the launch bar, the created icon has a small icon for the application that created it.
• The icon cannot be deleted using the API (only disabled), so if you created one that points to another application and this application was deleted, you cannot delete it.
• Creation cannot be in the background, as this requires a confirmation dialog box. It also cannot be created in a package. Only one after another.
• All attached shortcuts created by your application will be deleted if your application has been deleted.

So now my question is:

• Is there a way to create and remove a shortcut using the previous API using the adb command, with the root, if necessary?

• Is it possible to remove specific pinned shortcuts using the adb command, with the root, if necessary?