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Asked: 2026-05-19T22:06:26+00:00

I am having a tad of an issue when creating shortcuts on my android

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I am having a tad of an issue when creating shortcuts on my android desktop.

First, I have a 72×72 icon, I load it from my SD card into a Bitmap object.

With that bitmap object I set it as my icon resource.

The problem I am having is when I set it, the image on the shortcut appears off center and cut off. From the screen metrics I get the size as 72×72, not sure what the deal is.

Code:

Bitmap theBitmap = BitmapFactory.decodeFile("/sdcard/icon.png");
intent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_SHORTCUT_ICON, theBitmap)

I’ve tried resizing it and have got it to work utilizing a canvas, drawable and another bitmap, however when restarting the phone it reverts to a small size.

Using the very same icon as a drawable resource makes it look perfect, but its not dynamic:

Parcelable iconResource = Intent.ShortcutIconResource.fromContext(this, R.drawable.icon);
intent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_SHORTCUT_ICON_RESOURCE, iconResource);

Using a Samsung Epic 4g w/ 2.1

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  1. Editorial Team

    I had a similar issue. I looked at the Launcher source code and I saw that there’s a bug that causes the icon not to appear correctly if the initial bitmap size is too small.

    Scale the bitmap to 128×128 first:

    Bitmap scaledBitmap = Bitmap.createScaledBitmap(theBitmap, 128, 128, true);
intent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_SHORTCUT_ICON, scaledBitmap);

    It’ll fix it.

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