Android create shortcuts on the home screen

Question

What I want 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

Answer 1

Since API level 26, using com.android.launcher.action.INSTALL_SHORTCUT is deprecated. The new way of creating shortcuts are using ShortcutManager.

It mentions that there are 3 kinds of shortcuts, static, dynamic and pinned. Based on your requirements, you can choose to create them.