ShortcutCircus is a sample Android application demonstrating how to
create custom shortcuts in the launcher. Google's official API docs
don't give much detail on how to do this, but there are explanations
all over the Web, in particular Christof Dorner's snippets here
<http://codinggeek.org/tag/home-screen-shortcuts/>.

Contents:
    src/ -- Java sources for the Android app
    res/ -- resources for the Android app
    AndroidManifest.xml, build.xml, *.properties -- for driving
        Google's Android build tools (note that you will have to
        provide a couple more of these--see INSTALL for details)
    README -- this file
    INSTALL -- build/installation instructions
    LICENSE -- licence (Apache 2.0, same as Google's sample code)

Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@geek-central.gen.nz>