Android Home Screen Widgets/Shortcuts still not working

1. What is the issue? Please be detailed.
I'm trying to create a widget shortcut on my Android Home Screen to link directly into a form as talked about here and here. When I do this it doesn't successfully create the widget.

Google Pixel 6 Pro
ODK Collect 2025.3.0 Beta 0
Android 16

2. What steps can we take to reproduce this issue?
Long tap on home screen to open add widget dialogue in Android. Add ODK widget, select form, dialogue closes without creating anything.

3. What have you tried to fix the issue?
Not sure what else to do, seems like a bug.

4. Upload any forms or screenshots you can share publicly below.

Here is a screen capture of the behavior. It basically gets to the form screen and when tapping the form title, it just closes and nothing happens.

I don't know why I hadn't considered this before, but having this widget would help improve workflows for illiterate folks, ESPECIALLY if the icon could be changed/customized, but thats a different issue.

@dbemke Can you reproduce this?

We reproduced Pixel 6a and 7a (Android 16) and filed issue https://github.com/getodk/collect/issues/6833

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