Question: How Do You Add Contact Shortcuts To Home Screen?

**JayMSY** · 12-15-2011, 03:14 PM

So I am a proud Nexus owner as of 1pm.

I have figured out how to add app shortcuts to home screens but not contacts. Any clue?

I would like to have a shortcut for "Home" so when I press it it dials my home phone. How do I add these?

Thanks!

**hyperdude** · 12-15-2011, 03:17 PM

Widgets -> Contact (or Direct dial in your case)
Widgets being the new section in the app drawer area

**JayMSY** · 12-15-2011, 03:18 PM

Thanks!!!!! I can tell this will take some getting used to.

**hyperdude** · 12-15-2011, 03:20 PM

Originally Posted by JayMSY

Thanks!!!!! I can tell this will take some getting used to.

Having widgets stored away in the app drawer certainly will take some getting used to. But it's a good change

**johnson7994** · 12-15-2011, 03:38 PM

I know in behind but how did you add an app shortcut to a screen?

**hyperdude** · 12-15-2011, 03:40 PM

Originally Posted by johnson7994

I know in behind but how did you add an app shortcut to a screen?

Open the app drawer - the ( ::: ) icon on the homescreen - and press-and-hold on an app icon. Then you choose where it goes on the screens

**johnson7994** · 12-15-2011, 03:42 PM

Thank you so much!

**crenca** · 12-17-2011, 04:23 PM

Originally Posted by hyperdude

Having widgets stored away in the app drawer certainly will take some getting used to. But it's a good change

I my opinion, it's a bad change. What was wrong with the long press on the home screen to access widgets, direct dial, etc? Having the long press on a home screen do nothing except something as frivolous as changing a wallpaper is a waste. The long press is intuitive, the app drawer is a buried, nested function...

**hyperdude** · 12-17-2011, 04:58 PM

Originally Posted by crenca

I my opinion, it's a bad change. What was wrong with the long press on the home screen to access widgets, direct dial, etc? Having the long press on a home screen do nothing except something as frivolous as changing a wallpaper is a waste. The long press is intuitive, the app drawer is a buried, nested function...

Actually I don't like long-press that much. In the places where long-press brings up the context menu for a specific item (like in Messaging, etc.) it makes perfect sense. Having to long-press on the home screen to find widgets is not intuitive, I'd say. If you think that getting to widgets by app drawer -> widgets tab is less useful or more time consuming than long-pressing the homescreen, hitting Widgets and waiting a moment for the list to come up, whatever floats your boat.

Edit: And as far as "What was wrong with the long press...", Matias Duarte said Google is moving away from long pressing toward gestural controls - just like how with HC and ICS they've moved from burying the options menu under the Menu button to being on-screen options and an overflow menu.

**pauliphone5** · 12-17-2011, 05:01 PM

Originally Posted by hyperdude

Widgets -> Contact (or Direct dial in your case)
Widgets being the new section in the app drawer area

LOL, is that what those are for. I installed anycut like I have on most of my other droids.

**Bill Worth** · 11-25-2012, 12:32 AM

Thank just what I was looking for

**gregs1213** · 11-26-2012, 08:39 PM

The Galaxy Nexus was my first smart phone ever.. So I learned how to add widgets by going through app drawer.. However, since I now use Nova Launcher, you can add them by holding down on the homescreen, and I like adding them that way MUCH better. So it's not something I was just "used" to because I never used Gingerbread or anything before that.