Website Shortcut icon

3.4.1 by Deltac Development


Jan 14, 2022

About Website Shortcut

Personalize your homescreen with (icon) shortcuts for websites (URL/URIs).

Personalize your Android homescreen by creating your own icon shortcuts for websites (URL/URIs). Customize your website shortcuts with your own selected text and image. Furthermore, there are no advertisements and it's free. I made it originally for myself, and decided to share. Giving a fair rating is very well appreciated!

From Android Oreo on (due to an API change, upon which this app is built), the bottom right tiny icon of the app the shortcut belongs to is added automatically by the launcher.

Features:

* Choose your own label and icon for the shortcut and the website URL/URI to open

* Icon selection via local file selection

* Works with most icon packs

* Supports usage of general URIs (e.g., mailto:[email protected] )

* Broad support for image formats: *.png, *.jpg, *.jpeg, *.ico, *.gif, *.bmp

* Automatic https scheme suggestion if it misses from the URL

* Make use of "Share via..." in any other application (e.g., a browser) to conveniently fill the website URL/URI field

* View the labels and website URL/URIs of currently present shortcuts of the app (navigate to the in-app drawer menu -> "Current shortcuts")

* Free

* No advertisements

--- Data policy

Creation of a shortcut is done by passing the shortcut design (label/icon) and an Intent with the website (URL/URI) to the system shortcut manager and the launcher. The system shortcut manager and the launcher create and manage the shortcuts, and maintain them with their associated Intents. In some cases (e.g., upon app, launcher or system update, or restore from back-up), the system shortcut manager or launcher might lose icons of existing shortcuts or even entire shortcuts. It is recommended to keep somewhere a list of labels, icons and website URL/URIs so you can recreate easily. In the app drawer menu, you can open the "Current shortcuts" which displays the labels and website URL/URIs of the still present shortcuts retrieved from the system shortcut manager.

In this version (≥ v3.0.0) a large randomly generated identifier is used to uniquely name shortcuts such that the launcher can uniquely identify shortcuts. In prior versions (≤ v2.1), a creation timestamp was used as unique identifier. Shortcuts created by prior versions (≤ v2.1) will still have their creation timestamp stored within their Intent and unique name.

Uninstalling the app (i.e. via Settings -> Apps -> Application List -> Website Shortcut -> Uninstall) will remove the app from the device, including its data. The Android uninstallation procedure will also notify the system shortcut manager and the launcher, which should remove from it all shortcuts associated with the app.

There are no advertisements in this app.

For information on data policy of previous versions: https://deltacdev.com/policies/policy-website-shortcut.txt

--- App permissions

This application does not require any app permissions.

For information on app permissions of previous versions: https://deltacdev.com/policies/policy-website-shortcut.txt

--- License

Copyright 2015-2022 Deltac Development

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.

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The icons in the options and drawer menu are (based on) Material icons made by Google, which are licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0.

See also: https://fonts.google.com/icons

What's New in the Latest Version 3.4.1

Last updated on Jan 14, 2022

* Design input resembles shortcut directly
* Icon selection limited to local files (to simplify creation form and as the app purpose is to choose your own icons; else "Add to homescreen" of browsers is sufficient)
* App functioning info on creation form
* "Current shortcuts" in app drawer menu
* Randomly generated UUID instead of timestamp to uniquely name/identify shortcuts
* Improved new shortcut open latency by removing go-between activity
* Performance and theme tweaks
* No app permissions

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Additional APP Information

Latest Version

Request Website Shortcut Update 3.4.1

Uploaded by

Julius Hinostroza

Requires Android

Android 8.0+

Available on

Get Website Shortcut on Google Play

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