An introduction to Android’s App Shortcuts

Android Nougat 7.1, the newest version of Android at the time of writing this article, comes with several new features. The one that we will be exploring in this blog post is the App Shortcuts feature. App Shortcuts allows you to create shortcuts for specific actions within your app that can bring users directly from the launcher to the associated screens. The feature is available on any launcher that supports them, such as Google Now and Pixel launchers. To reveal the shortcuts of an app, simply long-press the launcher icon of that app. If you are enrolled in the Beta program and got the Android 7.1 Developer Preview, you can find that some of the apps already support App Shortcuts, for example: Camera, Dialer, Messenger, Google Drive, and Youtube. Unfortunately there's no visual indication on which apps support this feature (at least not at this time), so you will have to long-press on every app's launcher icon in order to discover the ones that support it. Adding App Shortcuts to your app There are 2 ways that can be used to add app shortcuts to your app: statically (by declaring all the shortcuts in a resource file, also known as manifest shortcuts) and dynamically (by adding the shortcuts at runtime).

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