Pinned Shortcut support (for example: PWA / Shortcuts to browser)

[eXaLy]

Issue: #20

Summary

• Add pinned shortcut support
• This makes it possible to have:
  • Progressive Web Apps (PWA)
  • Browser link shortcuts as part of the launcher besides apps
  • Whatsapp shortcuts
  • etc.

Changes

• Introduce PinItemActivity to accept pin shortcut requests from the system.
• Extend AppModel and app list loading to include pinned shortcuts alongside apps.
• Persist pinned shortcuts for home slots and swipe actions, and launch/delete them appropriately.
• Update app drawer UI behaviors (diffing, rename, delete, hide) to handle shortcut entries.

Other thoughts, but kept out of scope:

• Migrate to DataStore instead of SharedPreferences
• Instead of hardcoded numbering from 1 to 8 for each property, have it as a scalable list - now the shortcuts are also having hardcoded 1 until 8 properties.

Demo

Screen_recording_20260208_230250.yafw.balanced.mp4

[tanujnotes]

Thank you so much for this! ❤️🙏

[eXaLy]

@tanujnotes my pleasure!

Let's hope for more downloads for your launcher 😄

[patraanjan23]

A manual UI to add/manage sites would be great.