Android Home Screen Widget (icon, label – style)

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The “correct way to do this” is to make a shortcut, and not try to mimic it with an app widget. This has been pointed out repeatedly by the core Android team (notably Romain Guy) on the [android-developers] discussion list, such as:

Widgets should look like widgets, not
like shortcuts. The main reason is
that there is absolutely NO guarantee
about what a shortcut will look like.
Other devices (especially ones with
custom system UIs like MOTOBLUR or HTC
Sense) might have a different look and
feel. Or in the next update of Android
we might change the way shortcuts are
presented.

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