Trying to UNINSTALL_SHORTCUT but shortcut won't go away

Question

I created a test Activity that installs a shortcut of itself on the Android Home screen. When you click a button, the Activity is supposed to remove the same shortcut it ju

Answer 1

It took me about an hour of debugging and trying out every example on stackoverflow, but the solution was very easy. There's a typo in your code: You need to use com.android.launcher.action.UNINSTALL_SHORTCUT (as opposed to permission, as it is in the Manifest)

intent.setAction("com.android.launcher.action.UNINSTALL_SHORTCUT");

Edit: answer amended