1264550 - (Android N) Add support for dynamic shortcuts

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Sebastian Kaspari (:sebastian; :pocmo)]

Android N allows apps to create dynamic shortcuts. This sounds a bit like iOS' "Quick Actions" with the addition that you can move those shortcuts to your home screen.

> Your app can create up to five dynamic shortcuts. When users perform a gesture
> over your app's launcher icon, these shortcuts appear. By dragging the
> shortcuts onto the launcher, users can make persistent copies of the shortcuts,
> called pinned shortcuts. Users can create an unlimited number of pinned
> shortcuts for each app. 

Some examples from the developer documentation:
> * Navigating users to a particular location in a mapping app.
> * Sending messages to a friend in a communication app.
> * Playing the next episode of a TV show in a media app.
> * Loading the last save point in a gaming app.

Comment 1

[Sebastian Kaspari (:sebastian; :pocmo)]

This feature has been removed in Preview 3:
> We’ve decided to defer this feature to a future release of Android. We plan to
> remove the Launcher Shortcuts APIs (ShortcutManager and others) from the public
> Android N API starting in the next developer preview.