Hai friends ,
i want to create a "shortcut item " in my home screen . it is urgent for my project , please help me any body.



Ranjit.....................................

hi

did you figure out that short cut key problem, if so than please share the step how get any key listener event when user press any where from.

dhaiwat wrote:hi

did you figure out that short cut key problem, if so than please share the step how get any key listener event when user press any where from.

Hi Dhaiwat ,

I am sending a code snippet to you , once go through this and achieve your task .Just call the bellow function by passing parameters of which application you want to create shortcut and context object .



public static boolean setShortCut(String appName,Context context) throws UserException
{

try
{
//Log.i("shortcut method in androidhelper start","in the shortcutapp on create method ");
boolean flag =false ;
int app_id=-1;
PackageManager p = context.getPackageManager();
Intent i = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_MAIN);
i.addCategory(Intent.CATEGORY_LAUNCHER);
List<ResolveInfo> res =p.queryIntentActivities( i,0);
//System.out.println("the res size is: "+res.size());

for(int k=0;k<res.size();k++)
{
//Log.i("","the application name is: "+res.get(k).activityInfo.loadLabel(p));
if(res.get(k).activityInfo.loadLabel(p).toString().equals(appName)){
flag = true;
app_id = k;
break;
}
}

if(flag)
{
ActivityInfo ai = res.get(app_id).activityInfo;
Intent shortcutIntent = new Intent();
shortcutIntent.setClassName(ai.packageName, ai.name);
shortcutIntent.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK);
shortcutIntent.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_TOP);
shortcutIntent.addCategory(Intent.ACTION_PICK_ACTIVITY);
Intent intent = new Intent();
intent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_SHORTCUT_INTENT, shortcutIntent);
// Sets the custom shortcut's title
intent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_SHORTCUT_NAME, appName);

BitmapDrawable bd=(BitmapDrawable)(res.get(app_id).activityInfo.loadIcon(p).getCurrent());
Bitmap newbit;
newbit=bd.getBitmap();
intent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_SHORTCUT_ICON, newbit);

intent.setAction("com.android.launcher.action.INSTALL_SHORTCUT");
context.sendBroadcast(intent);

}
else
{
throw new UserException(UserException.KErrGeneral,"Application not found");
}

}

catch(ActivityNotFoundException e)
{
e.printStackTrace();
throw new UserException(UserException.KErrGsmRRNoActivityOnRadioPath,e.getMessage());
}


catch(Exception e)
{
e.printStackTrace();
throw new UserException(UserException.KErrGeneral,e.getMessage());

}
return true;
}


keep smiling

Have a look at AnyCut - http://code.google.com/p/apps-for-android/