{"id":8908,"date":"2017-04-10T00:01:50","date_gmt":"2017-04-10T07:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/?p=8908"},"modified":"2017-04-08T11:16:26","modified_gmt":"2017-04-08T18:16:26","slug":"android-shortcuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/?p=8908","title":{"rendered":"Android Shortcuts"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Shortcuts launcher icon feature was added with Android 7 “Nougat.” You might have already accessed this feature by mistake. Don’t let it alarm you!
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\nAn Android shortcut appears when you long-press certain launchers on the Home screen. A series of buttons pops up, similar to those shown in Figure 1.<\/p>\n

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Figure 1. Shortcuts for various home screen launchers (app icons).<\/p><\/div>\n

You don’t have to use the pop-up shortcuts: If you’re moving the icon, drag it to a new location or to the Remove\/Delete icon at the top of the screen. You’re done. And to start the app, just tap the launcher, don’t long-press the icon.<\/p>\n

To use a shortcut, tap it: Long-press the launcher and lift your finger. Tap a button. For example, from Figure 1, long-press the Chrome launcher and then choose New Incognito Tab to immediately open an Incognito tab. Or for the Contacts launcher, choose a frequent contact. Or start a New Tweet for Twitter.<\/p>\n

Another bonus: You can drag the shortcut button off the launcher and create a new launcher-shortcut icon on the home screen. See the = (equal sign) icon on the right of the shortcut? That’s where you drag the shortcut button. For example, long-press the Chrome launcher, then drag the New Incognito Tab shortcut (use the = sign) to the home screen. Then you can tap that shortcut-launcher to open an Incognito tab or do whatever delightful action the shortcut-launcher does.<\/p>\n

Not every app features a pop-up list of shortcut actions. Some apps may change their actions. And this feature might not be available on every Android device, even those that have that Nougat update.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The home screen long-press technique has some new effects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[8],"class_list":["post-8908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main","tag-android"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8908"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8919,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8908\/revisions\/8919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}