Read data from Shortcut

Question

I am creating multiple shortcuts of an Activity in my application by using this code

Intent shortcutIntent = new Intent(getApplicationContext(), SingleChat.class);
shortcutIntent.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK);                       
shortcutIntent.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_TOP);                      

Bitmap bm =  ((BitmapDrawable)contact_image.getDrawable()).getBitmap();       
Bitmap bti = Bitmap.createScaledBitmap(bm, 120, 120, false);                  

Intent addIntent = new Intent();                                              
addIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_SHORTCUT_INTENT, shortcutIntent);                    
addIntent.putExtra("user_id", csUserId);                   
addIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_SHORTCUT_NAME, csUserName);      
addIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_SHORTCUT_ICON, bti);                          
addIntent.setAction("com.android.launcher.action.INSTALL_SHORTCUT");          
getApplicationContext().sendBroadcast(addIntent);      

Everything is working perfectly fine for shortcut creation but I want to read the data from the shortcut OR

I want to read this user_id whenever that shortcut is clicked.

I can't put it in SharedPreferences as it can be more than one shortcuts each linking to different user_id.

I have searched and so far couldn't find anything.

Shortcuts have been improved quite a lot after android 7.0 but I have to make it working for older devices too (say from 4 to onward).

Thanks.

Answer 1

Everything is working perfectly fine for shortcut creation

FWIW, I don't think it will work on Android O.

I want to read this user_id whenever that shortcut is clicked.

Put it as an extra in shortcutIntent.