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>