Shortcut to open a specific org from Home Screen (iOS) / launcher (Android)

[chrisbobbe]

Both iOS and Android seem to support maintaining a short list of shortcut actions that can be reached from the app icon:

• iOS: Home Screen quick actions
• Android: App shortcuts

On both platforms, it seems the app can maintain the list dynamically, based on data obtained while the app is running.

I think we could have items like "Open Zulip Community" or "Open Lean", which would just put you on the home screen for the org. Or I guess Open <email> on <org> if you have multiple accounts on an org.

From beta feedback:

And same OS beta app icon. Share, app info and remove seems to be standard. Please extend it with some menu options to choose from. Like open CZO, open Lean or jump to DMs.

[Abhisheksainii]

@chrisbobbe Can we take help from a package named quick_actions. It supports iOS(9.0+) and Android(SDK 16+) both. We can setup shortcut items and then add a listener to listen to the changes.
P.S : We would be needing exact list of items to be shown.

[chrisbobbe]

We won't have much time to spare for reviewing work on this, since it's milestoned "M7: Future"—but if you'd like to do a quick prototype to see if it's easy to implement (with tests), we might be able to take a quick look.

P.S : We would be needing exact list of items to be shown.

Let's start with these:

I think we could have items like "Open Zulip Community" or "Open Lean", which would just put you on the home screen for the org. Or I guess Open <email> on <org> if you have multiple accounts on an org.

where "Zulip Community" and "Lean" are examples of a Zulip organization's name (realm_name in the Zulip API).