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Website Shortcut 3.4.1

3 MB / 100K+ Downloads / Rating 4.0 - 1,225 reviews


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Website Shortcut, developed and published by Deltac Development, has released its latest version, 3.4.1, on 2022-12-04. This app falls under the Personalization category on the Google Play Store and has achieved over 100000 installs. It currently holds an overall rating of 4.0, based on 1.225 reviews.

Website Shortcut APK available on this page is compatible with all Android devices that meet the required specifications (Android 8.0+). It can also be installed on PC and Mac using an Android emulator such as Bluestacks, LDPlayer, and others.

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App Details

Package name: com.deltacdev.websiteshortcut

Updated: 2 years ago

Developer Name: Deltac Development

Category: Personalization

New features: Show more

Installation Instructions

This article outlines two straightforward methods for installing Website Shortcut on PC Windows and Mac.

Using BlueStacks

  1. Download the APK/XAPK file from this page.
  2. Install BlueStacks by visiting http://bluestacks.com.
  3. Open the APK/XAPK file by double-clicking it. This action will launch BlueStacks and begin the application's installation. If the APK file does not automatically open with BlueStacks, right-click on it and select 'Open with...', then navigate to BlueStacks. Alternatively, you can drag-and-drop the APK file onto the BlueStacks home screen.
  4. Wait a few seconds for the installation to complete. Once done, the installed app will appear on the BlueStacks home screen. Click its icon to start using the application.

Using LDPlayer

  1. Download and install LDPlayer from https://www.ldplayer.net.
  2. Drag the APK/XAPK file directly into LDPlayer.

If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact us.

App Rating

4.0
Total 1,225 reviews

Reviews

5 ★, on 2020-09-06
Thanks you creator! This took forever to find, but it was worth it. After an update to my phone, I lost all my shortcuts on the home screen and couldn't use the "add to homescreen" function anymore. A lot of people are having this issue, so I will recommend this. I run a business and it's important to have the function to get to websites I use on a daily basis. It was fast and easy and worked like a charm!

5 ★, on 2020-07-20
I use this instead of a browser's save-to-homepage. The browser's own shortcuts disappear when switching to a different browser, or having to remove & reinstall the browser. Also, if two browsers are installed, the browser's save-to-homepage will only open in it's own browser. However, I did lose all of this app's shortcuts when moving to a new phone. The ability to backup would have helped. I now keep a copy of the URLs.

5 ★, on 2020-06-29
Excellent app! It lets me create website shortcuts for Firefox that have CUSTOM names - not the long URL or whatever else Firefox grabs. And it does it without pestering you with ads. If this hadn't been free, I would have bought it. I have a Galaxy S7 with Android 8 Oreo and it works flawlessly.

5 ★, on 2020-08-11
I had a url that is dynamic, and the website processes the request on the server side and sends the correct page, but with the browser's "save to home screen", it didn't get the dynamic url only the fixed that I'm sent to. This app allows me to use that dynamic url! Happy me

5 ★, on 2020-09-09
Really good app. It's so easy to create shortcuts to my home screen. Tried using both Chrome and Edge browsers shortcuts to home screen but they didn't work as well as this app.

5 ★, on 2020-04-19
This app does only one thing and does it very well. I'd grown tired of shortcut icons that pictured only a single letter and was looking for the easiest way to customize icons that couldn't be recognized at a glance. In seconds I can fix that boring icon and make the new shortcut so much easier to identify. Thank you, dev, for sharing this wonderful little tool!

Previous Versions

Website Shortcut 3.4.1
2022-12-04 / 3 MB / Android 8.0+

Website Shortcut 1.1.0
2016-02-16 / 1.4 MB / Android 2.2+

About this app

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:example@example.com )
* 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

New features

* 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