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    <p>It's an old question, but still active as there is no explicit Android feature. And the guys from facebook found a work around - somehow. Today, I found a way that works for me. Not perfect (see remarks at the end of this answer) but it works!</p> <p>Main idea is, that I update the icon of my app's shortcut, created by the launcher on my home screen. When I want to change something on the shortcut-icon, I remove it first and recreate it with a new bitmap.</p> <p>Here is the code. It has a button <code>increment</code>. When pressed, the shortcut is replaced with one that has a new counting number.</p> <p>First you need these two permissions in your manifest:</p> <pre><code>&lt;uses-permission android:name="com.android.launcher.permission.INSTALL_SHORTCUT" /&gt; &lt;uses-permission android:name="com.android.launcher.permission.UNINSTALL_SHORTCUT" /&gt; </code></pre> <p>Then you need this two methods for installing and uninstalling shortcuts. The <code>shortcutAdd</code> method creates a bitmap with a number in it. This is just to demonstrate that it actually changes. You probably want to change that part with something, you want in your app.</p> <pre><code>private void shortcutAdd(String name, int number) { // Intent to be send, when shortcut is pressed by user ("launched") Intent shortcutIntent = new Intent(getApplicationContext(), Play.class); shortcutIntent.setAction(Constants.ACTION_PLAY); // Create bitmap with number in it -&gt; very default. You probably want to give it a more stylish look Bitmap bitmap = Bitmap.createBitmap(100, 100, Bitmap.Config.ARGB_8888); Paint paint = new Paint(); paint.setColor(0xFF808080); // gray paint.setTextAlign(Paint.Align.CENTER); paint.setTextSize(50); new Canvas(bitmap).drawText(""+number, 50, 50, paint); ((ImageView) findViewById(R.id.icon)).setImageBitmap(bitmap); // Decorate the shortcut Intent addIntent = new Intent(); addIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_SHORTCUT_INTENT, shortcutIntent); addIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_SHORTCUT_NAME, name); addIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_SHORTCUT_ICON, bitmap); // Inform launcher to create shortcut addIntent.setAction("com.android.launcher.action.INSTALL_SHORTCUT"); getApplicationContext().sendBroadcast(addIntent); } private void shortcutDel(String name) { // Intent to be send, when shortcut is pressed by user ("launched") Intent shortcutIntent = new Intent(getApplicationContext(), Play.class); shortcutIntent.setAction(Constants.ACTION_PLAY); // Decorate the shortcut Intent delIntent = new Intent(); delIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_SHORTCUT_INTENT, shortcutIntent); delIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_SHORTCUT_NAME, name); // Inform launcher to remove shortcut delIntent.setAction("com.android.launcher.action.UNINSTALL_SHORTCUT"); getApplicationContext().sendBroadcast(delIntent); } </code></pre> <p>And finally, here are two listener to add the first shortcut and update the shortcut with an incrementing counter.</p> <pre><code>@Override protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { super.onCreate(savedInstanceState); setContentView(R.layout.test); findViewById(R.id.add).setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() { @Override public void onClick(View v) { shortcutAdd("changeIt!", count); } }); findViewById(R.id.increment).setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() { @Override public void onClick(View v) { shortcutDel("changeIt!"); count++; shortcutAdd("changeIt!", count); } }); } </code></pre> <p>Remarks:</p> <ul> <li><p>This way works also if your App controls more shortcuts on the home screen, e.g. with different extra's in the <code>Intent</code>. They just need different names so that the right one is uninstalled and reinstalled.</p></li> <li><p>The programmatical handling of shortcuts in Android is a well known, widely used but not officially supported Android feature. It seems to work on the default launcher and I never tried it anywhere else. So dont blame me, when you get this user-emails "It does not work on my XYZ, double rooted, super blasted phone"</p></li> <li><p>The launcher writes a <code>Toast</code> when a shortcut was installad and one when a shortcut was uninstalled. So I get two <code>Toast</code>s every time I change the icon. This is not perfect, but well, as long as the rest of my app is perfect...</p></li> </ul>
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