Working with Android 7.1 App Shortcuts Android 7.1 introduced a new feature called App Shortcuts. When you long press your app icon, it shows shortcuts to specific actions which can be launched, on supported launchers. For example, a dialer app can show shortcuts to your recently dialed numbers. A messaging app can show shortcuts to your recent conversations. In this tutorial, we will create two Activities and add these activities as shortcuts. Prerequisites Make sure you have updated your Android SDK to 7.1 and Created a virtual device with Android 7.1 System Image. creating project Here I have created an Android Studio project with package com.lagahit.appshortcuts also Activity as MainActivity and layout as activity_main. Our main layout has a Button to launch Profile Activity. Creating Profile Activity To the left of Android Studio, you will find Project Explorer. Right Click on the app from the project explorer and select, New -> Activit...