App shortcuts

[tasomaniac]

The GDG application can have App Shortcuts for Nougat 7.1 users.

Possible static shortcuts can be GDEs, GDG Pulse

We can also have dynamic shortcuts. It can be

• The next event of the home chapter (we already have the logic for our widget)
• Event Series like DevFest and WTM

[tasomaniac]

Launcher shortcuts have been a feature from the beginning of Android. With Marshmallow, the old launcher shortcut permission com.android.launcher.permission.INSTALL_SHORTCUT is given to all apps automatically.

Nougat's static app shortcuts is just much easier to implement.

But we can also try to add some other power user shortcuts to the app. One idea would be to have add to home screen button on long click on a chapter so that the app will start with that chapter on click.