android-appshortcut

I´m having some issues when adding an static app shortcut to an existing app. I followed the steps from https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/shortcuts.html and the shortcut shows up, but when I tap it it doesn't launches the activity, instead it shows a toast message saying: " App isn´t installed ". Here is the relevant section of the manifest: <manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" package="com.mypackage"> <application android:allowBackup="true" android:icon="@mipmap/ic_launcher" android:label="@string/app_name" android:supportsRtl="true" android:theme="

Background Starting from API 25 of Android, apps can offer extra shortcuts in the launcher, by long clicking on them: The problem Thing is, all I've found is how your app can offer those shortcuts to the launcher, but I can't find out how the launcher gets the list of them. Since it's a rather new API, and most users and developers don't even use it, I can't find much information about it, especially because I want to search of the "other side" of the API usage. What I've tried I tried reading the docs ( here , for example). I don't see it being mentioned. Only the part of other apps is