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    copied!<blockquote> <p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br> <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6337431/android-create-shortcuts-on-the-home-screen">Android create shortcuts on the home screen</a> </p> </blockquote> <p>I am having one <code>TextView</code> and <code>Button</code> in my Activity (HomeActivity.class).</p> <p><strong>Goal</strong>: When I click on the <code>Button</code> it should create a shortcut with the default android image as icon and text as entered in the <code>TextView</code>.</p> <p>So far I've found out that we can create shortcuts using <a href="http://developer.android.com/reference/android/content/Intent.html#ACTION_CREATE_SHORTCUT" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><code>ACTION_CREATE_SHORTCUT</code></a></p> <p>This is the code I have so far:</p> <pre><code>Intent result = new Intent(android.content.Intent.ACTION_CREATE_SHORTCUT); result.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_SHORTCUT_INTENT, new Intent(getApplicationContext(), Editor.class)); result.putExtra(TodoDbAdapter.KEY_ROWID,rowid); result.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_SHORTCUT_NAME,textView.getText()); result.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_SHORTCUT_ICON_RESOURCE, Intent.ShortcutIconResource.fromContext(HomeActivity.this, R.drawable.icon)); setResult(RESULT_OK, result); </code></pre> <p>My Manifest File :</p> <pre><code>&lt;activity android:name=".HomeActivity" android:label="@string/app_name"&gt; &lt;intent-filter&gt; &lt;action android:name="android.intent.action.CREATE_SHORTCUT" /&gt; &lt;category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" /&gt; &lt;/intent-filter&gt; &lt;/activity&gt; </code></pre> <p>But this code does not create any shortcut.</p> <p>How can I create shortcuts?</p>
 

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