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Hi I'm developing an application that has 2 types of user: Admin and normal user; The admin obviously has more actions than the normal user, so I need to use dynamic Shortcuts, depending on the user the Shortcuts are created.

At this point everything is already codified and working. However, at the time of assigning an Intent , even to the MainActivity I receive an error.

Intent intent = new Intent();
intent.setComponent(new ComponentName("com.motusk.Monit", "com.motusk.Monit.activity.MainActivity"));
shortcut.add(new ShortcutInfo.Builder(this, "ub")
   .setShortLabel("Location")
   .setLongLabel("Location")
   .setIcon(Icon.createWithResource(this, R.drawable.bg))
   .setIntent(intent)
   .build());
I also tried with:
Intent intent = new Intent(this, MainActivity.class);
But, in both I get the error:
  
java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to start activity ComponentInfo{com.motusk.Monit/com.motusk.Monit.activity.MainActivity}: java.lang.NullPointerException: intent's action must be set
In what I need help with is:
1) How to create a correct Intent to the MainActivity?
2) How to know which shortcut was pressed? (The process of depending on which shortcut was pressed to open a certain Fragment will be performed in the MainActivity, that's why I need to know which Shortcut was pressed).
As per the error message, your Intent must set an action with setAction:
intent.setAction("LOCATION_SHORTCUT");
You can then check the action in your Activity:
String action = getIntent() != null ? getIntent().getAction() : null;
if ("LOCATION_SHORTCUT".equals(action)) {
  // Show the correct fragment
        
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