Signal-android: Contact shortcut/widget

[effem]

Hi,

it would be nice to be able to create shortcuts to contacts from my contact list.
The new icon on the home screen would directy jump into the converstion with the selected user.
The icon could be the users profile picture on the phone.

[jeremymasters]

Some phones already have a direct text widget that, when textsecure is set as the default sms client, will do just what you're asking.

[effem]

Hi,

thats true but at least at my phone and the phones of my friends, this is not an option either because they are not using textsecure as the default sms app or like in my case the os just doesn' t offers this option!

[jeremymasters]

great points!

[hanzei]

@blokeley On Android 7.1 a "Contacts > Direct message 1 x 1" widget can open the chat directly. But its not possible to link to a groupchat.
If someone wants to develop this feature, https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/appwidgets/index.html would be a good startingpoint

[blokeley]

@Hanzei the direct message widget works perfectly. Thanks

[dcormier]

The direct message widget workaround does not work. It opens the default SMS client, not Signal. I do not use Signal as an SMS client at all.

[automated-signal]

GitHub Issue Cleanup:
See #7598 for more information.