Starting with Android O, use is com.android.launcher.action.INSTALL_SHORTCUT
not recommended. In previous versions, I used this and it worked.
Intent shortcutintent = new Intent("com.android.launcher.action.INSTALL_SHORTCUT");
shortcutintent.putExtra("duplicate", false);
shortcutintent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_SHORTCUT_NAME, getString(R.string.app_name));
Parcelable icon = Intent.ShortcutIconResource.fromContext(getApplicationContext(), R.mipmap.ic_launcher);
shortcutintent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_SHORTCUT_ICON_RESOURCE, icon);
shortcutintent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_SHORTCUT_INTENT, new Intent(getApplicationContext(), MainActivity.class));
sendBroadcast(shortcutintent);
but now it no longer works. A home screen shortcut is not created. How to create a home screen shortcut in Android O? The source code says that @deprecated Replaced with {@link android.content.pm.ShortcutManager#createShortcutResultIntent}
. So, I tried this:
ShortcutManager shortcutManager = getSystemService(ShortcutManager.class);
ShortcutInfo.Builder mShortcutInfo = new ShortcutInfo.Builder(MainActivity.this, getString(R.string.app_name));
mShortcutInfo.setShortLabel(getString(R.string.app_name));
mShortcutInfo.setLongLabel(getString(R.string.app_name));
mShortcutInfo.setIcon(Icon.createWithResource(MainActivity.this, R.mipmap.ic_launcher));
shortcutManager.createShortcutResultIntent(mShortcutInfo.build());
I get an error saying the shortcut must be specified:
10-17 23:08:00.305 13256-13256/com.audiorecorder.wel.voicerecorder E/AndroidRuntime: FATAL EXCEPTION: main
Process: com.wel.shortcut, PID: 13256
java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to start activity ComponentInfo{com.wel.shortcut/com.wel.shortcut.MainActivity}: java.lang.NullPointerException: Shortcut Intent must be provided
at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2817)
at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2892)
at android.app.ActivityThread.-wrap11(Unknown Source:0)
at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1593)
at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:105)
at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:164)
at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:6541)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
at com.android.internal.os.Zygote$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(Zygote.java:240)
at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:767)
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException: Shortcut Intent must be provided
at android.os.Parcel.readException(Parcel.java:1948)
at android.os.Parcel.readException(Parcel.java:1888)
at android.content.pm.IShortcutService$Stub$Proxy.createShortcutResultIntent(IShortcutService.java:635)
at android.content.pm.ShortcutManager.createShortcutResultIntent(ShortcutManager.java:1043)
at voicerecorder.wel.audiorecorder.com.voicerecorder.MainActivity.onCreate(MainActivity.java:80)
at android.app.Activity.performCreate(Activity.java:6975)
at android.app.Instrumentation.callActivityOnCreate(Instrumentation.java:1213)
at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2770)
at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2892)
at android.app.ActivityThread.-wrap11(Unknown Source:0)
at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1593)
at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:105)
at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:164)
at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:6541)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
at com.android.internal.os.Zygote$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(Zygote.java:240)
at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:767)
Edit: as suggested in ianhanniballake's answer, I set the intent and received java.lang.NullPointerException: intent action must be set
so I tried new Intent("com.android.launcher.action.INSTALL_SHORTCUT")
. Code executes, but no shortcut is created.
Edit 2: this is the code that I am running now, but I do not see the shortcut on the desktop.
ShortcutManager shortcutManager = getSystemService(ShortcutManager.class);
ShortcutInfo.Builder mShortcutInfo = new ShortcutInfo.Builder(MainActivity.this, getString(R.string.app_name));
mShortcutInfo.setShortLabel(getString(R.string.app_name));
mShortcutInfo.setLongLabel(getString(R.string.app_name));
mShortcutInfo.setIcon(Icon.createWithResource(MainActivity.this, R.mipmap.ic_launcher));
Intent shortcutIntent = new Intent(getApplicationContext(), MainActivity.class);
shortcutIntent.setAction(Intent.ACTION_CREATE_SHORTCUT);
shortcutIntent.putExtra("duplicate", false);
mShortcutInfo.setIntent(shortcutIntent);
sendBroadcast(shortcutManager.createShortcutResultIntent(mShortcutInfo.build()));
Edit 3:
ShortcutInfo.Builder mShortcutInfoBuilder = new ShortcutInfo.Builder(MainActivity.this, getString(R.string.app_name));
mShortcutInfoBuilder.setShortLabel(getString(R.string.app_name));
mShortcutInfoBuilder.setLongLabel(getString(R.string.app_name));
mShortcutInfoBuilder.setIcon(Icon.createWithResource(MainActivity.this, R.mipmap.ic_launcher));
Intent shortcutIntent = new Intent(getApplicationContext(), MainActivity.class);
shortcutIntent.setAction(Intent.ACTION_CREATE_SHORTCUT);
mShortcutInfoBuilder.setIntent(shortcutIntent);
ShortcutInfo mShortcutInfo = mShortcutInfoBuilder.build();
ShortcutManager mShortcutManager = getSystemService(ShortcutManager.class);
mShortcutManager.requestPinShortcut(mShortcutInfo, null);
This brings up a permission dialog, as shown below:

, . . home.