Question

I’m having problem when I tried to create the shortcut icon in the homescreen of the Android App programmatically.

I was able to create the shortcut icon but after that, an alert stating “application shortcut created” pops up then the application closes. I don’t want the application to close and if possible I want to get rid of the alert that pops up after creating the shortcut.

How can I achieve that?

Here is my current code:

Intent targetIntent = new Intent (Intent.ACTION_MAIN);
targetIntent.setClassName (getApplicationContext(), "com.mainListActivity");
Intent shortcutintent = new Intent("com.android.launcher.action.INSTALL_SHORTCUT");
shortcutintent.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_FROM_BACKGROUND);

//repeat to create is forbidden
shortcutintent.putExtra("duplicate", false);

//set the name of shortCut
shortcutintent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_SHORTCUT_NAME,"SecureLauncher");

//set icon
Parcelable icon = Intent.ShortcutIconResource.fromContext(getApplicationContext(), R.drawable.ic_launcher_cloud);
shortcutintent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_SHORTCUT_ICON_RESOURCE, icon);

//set the application to lunch when you click the icon
shortcutintent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_SHORTCUT_INTENT,targetIntent);
sendBroadcast(shortcutintent);

Answer 1

I figured out the the cause why the application closes it is in my manifest.xml

before i have this in my manifest: i removed the receiver part:

<uses-permission android:name="com.android.launcher.permission.INSTALL_SHORTCUT"/>
<receiver
    android:name=".CreateShortcut"
    android:permission="com.android.launcher.permission.INSTALL_SHORTCUT">
    <intent-filter>
        <action android:name="com.android.launcher.action.INSTALL_SHORTCUT"/>
    </intent-filter>
</receiver>

so i only have this in my manifest:

<uses-permission android:name="com.android.launcher.permission.INSTALL_SHORTCUT"/>