About Website Shortcut
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...
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
* 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.
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
Previous Versions
Here you can find the changelog of Website Shortcut since it was posted on our website on 2016-12-28 23:53:20.
The latest version is 3.4.1 and it was updated on 2026-06-11 12:00:38. See below the changes in each version.
Website Shortcut version 3.4.0
Updated At: 2022-01-14
Changes: * 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)
* Creation form contains app functioning notes
* "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
* Dark theme fixes
* No app permissions needed
Website Shortcut version 3.4.1
Updated At: 2022-01-14
Changes: * Creation form: shortcut directly resembles design + extra app info
* Icon selection limited to local files and thus remove auto-detect (to simplify creation form and as the app purpose is to select your own label/icon; else "Add to homescreen" of browsers suffices)
* "Current shortcuts" in app drawer menu
* New shortcuts: improved open latency by removing go-between activity + uniquely named by randomly generated UUID instead of timestamp
* Performance and theme tweaks
* No app permissions
Website Shortcut version
Updated At: 2018-02-21
Changes: Android Oreo support
NEW: Automatically detect name and icon (via the website URL)
NEW: Use the "Share via..." in almost any application (e.g. browser, YouTube) to already fill in the URL
Website Shortcut version 1.1.0
Updated At: 2016-02-16
Website Shortcut version 1.1.0
Updated At: 2016-02-16
Changes: NEW: Automatically detect name and icon (via the website URL),NEW: Use the "Share via..." in almost any application (e.g. browser, YouTube) to already fill in the URL
Disclaimer
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