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I have an app where i am adding shortcut. I want to add shortcut icon image from URL path(images are stored on server and can be change) instead of using Drawable but i don't know how to do that. I tried to find a lot on this community. Any help?

Abhishek shrivastava
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  • what is shortcut there ? any view in the app or widget or something else. Elaborate – Dushyant Suthar Apr 03 '17 at 08:59
  • did you mean app icon? – an_droid_dev Apr 03 '17 at 09:00
  • yes...app icon.. – Abhishek shrivastava Apr 03 '17 at 09:05
  • @Abhishekshrivastava this question should solve your problem http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1103027/how-to-change-an-application-icon-programmatically-in-android – an_droid_dev Apr 03 '17 at 09:14
  • @an_droid_dev this question does not provide the answer. I want to add shortcuts and the shortcut icons should be from server url.... example - addShortcut(String appname,String appiconurl){ } – Abhishek shrivastava Apr 03 '17 at 09:19
  • @Abhishekshrivastava The question is seriously unclear. According to what you wrote lower down in a comment to my answer you want to pass it as an extra. You need to explain better exactly what you are attempting. – theblitz Apr 03 '17 at 15:42
  • @theblitz i have an app where there are some tiles in grid view and that icons are coming from server. now each item has add to shortcut option where i can put that specific item on homescreen to open their contents directly. and i have done that. But now i want to give them their respective icons image. But Intent.EXTRA_SHORTCUT_ICON only accepts resource id which are in drawable or accepts bitmap. So i want to load url directly from server instead of taking from drawable – Abhishek shrivastava Apr 04 '17 at 12:57
  • In that case use what Awais wrote below but put it into a variable instead of into an imageView – theblitz Apr 04 '17 at 13:08
  • @Abhishekshrivastava were you able to get the answer to this? – GOVIND DIXIT Dec 04 '20 at 14:41

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If the term used "shortcut icon" is a view or its descendants such as ImageView, then you can set the image, your application receive from the server by doing this :

add dependency to your app.gradle file :

compile 'com.github.bumptech.glide:glide:3.7.0'

and in the activity you can use this method to set the image to the imageview your app receive from the server :

ImageView imageView = (ImageView) findViewById(R.id.image_view);
Glide.with(imageview.getContext()).load("https://url").error(R.drawable.not_found).centerCrop().into(imageview);
Dushyant Suthar
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  • I personally prefer Picasso. If you want details about the differences then see this thread: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/29363321/picasso-v-s-imageloader-v-s-fresco-vs-glide. Well worth the read – theblitz Apr 03 '17 at 09:14
  • No...actually i want to add shortcut icons from this line of code intent..putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_SHORTCUT_ICON, R.drawable.your_image); in place of drawable i want to load the image from my server – Abhishek shrivastava Apr 03 '17 at 09:14
  • @theblitz thank you very much for your contribution but I used to use `picasso` then I moved to glide for this reason https://medium.com/@multidots/glide-vs-picasso-930eed42b81d – Dushyant Suthar Apr 03 '17 at 09:20
  • i think this cant be done with any image loading library. @theblitz you understand the question correctly? – Abhishek shrivastava Apr 03 '17 at 09:23
  • @Abhishekshrivastava That's exactly what Picasso and Glide do. They fetch images from a URL and put them where you want in your app - including as icons. – theblitz Apr 03 '17 at 15:40
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What you could do is first download that icon and store locally and then take that file path and use

ShortcutInfoCompat shortcutInfo = new ShortcutInfoCompat.Builder(this, UUID.randomUUID().toString())
                        .setIntent(intent) // !!! intent's action must be set on oreo
                        .setShortLabel(lable)
                        .setIcon(IconCompat.createWithAdaptiveBitmapContentUri(filePath)).build();
                ShortcutManagerCompat.requestPinShortcut(this, shortcutInfo, null);
prem
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add this in your build.gradle

compile 'com.squareup.picasso:picasso:2.5.2'

now you can load the image using following code

Picaso.with(this).load(urlHere).into(imageView);
AwaisMajeed
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