Push a bookmark to a user's home screen in Android

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Published on 2010-05-19T21:54:25Z Indexed on 2010/05/20 0:30 UTC
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Android 2.1 (not sure how much that matters) My test hardware is a Motorola Droid (not sure how much that matters either)

I want to push a bookmark/internet-shortcut to a user's home screen as a result of them clicking on a link - via their browser of choice.

I know they can usually set the bookmark themselves and then choose to put it on their home screen. But I'd like to provide a link like "Put a shortcut to this page on your home screen" that takes care of everything kind of in the background/underneath.

Is this even possible? What parts of the framework would I need access to to make it happen?

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