I have a heap of doubt. What i'd like to do is: 1) i'm inside an activity, there are 2 buttons. If i click the first one a shortcut is created in my home screen. The shortcut open an html page that has been previously downloaded, so i want it to use the default browser but i don't want to use internet cause i already have the page on the sd......
2)The second button create another shortcut that starts an activity froma another application. And i want to pass to the activity some extra argumets (As strings for example)........... I found some link and some similar questions like http://codinggeek.org/2011/01/02/android-how-to-add-home-screen-shortcuts-to-your-app/ and Android: Is there a programming way to create a web shortcut on home screen They seem to be the answer to my question but someone told me that this code is not gonna work on all devices and that is deprecated......."This technique is not recommended. This is an internal implementation, not part of the Android SDK. It will not work on all home screen implementations. It may not work on all past versions of Android. It may not work in future versions of Android, as Google is not obligated to maintain internal undocumented interfaces. Please do not use this" i already asked this on stackoverflow and this is teh answer i got http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6337431/android-create-shortcuts-on-the-home-screen This user says "The correct way is to listen for a shortcut request from the home screen-- with an intent filter like so in your manifest......." But i' a beginner and i can't actually see the difference from the code example i provided and the last one.....both use intents and the cose is pretty the same, the only difference is in the manifest part. The first example only set up a permission the second one aintent filter.......but what actually means " to listen for a shortcut request from the home screen"......i mean it's my application that is asking the home screen to add a shortcut not the oppsite......tnx -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
