Activity Manager - Helps to make shortcuts
Activity Manager - Helps to make shortcuts
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It allows to launch exported activities from various apps and helps to create useful shortcuts
2 examples where I find it to be quite useful:
1 Quick Record shortcut for Audio Recorder
::: spoiler It currently does not have a quick recording shortcut.
Audio Recorder Gitlab issue where a user requests the feature. Maybe attention from someone here would be helpful?
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You can directy search for the app in Activity manager, open it and create a a shortcut for the Recording activity.
2 Shortcut to open Android/data folder in the native Files app
::: spoiler Context for the folder location I use here
For Android 11 & onwards, you can't access the Android/data folder(without root) from regular file manager apps like Material files(awesome opensource file manager).
The Telegram X app stores it's downloaded files in a folder there.
Material files calls the native Android Files(not GFiles, documentsuifiles) app to open the Android/data folder.
Activity manager can be used to create a shortcut for that
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- Search for and open the Files app in Activity Manager and choose the Launch with parameters option for the FilesActivity
- Action, choose ACTION_VIEW
- Data =
content://com.android.externalstorage.documents/document/primary%3AAndroid%2Fdata%2Forg.thunderdog.challegram%2Ffiles%2Fdocumentsor any other directory you like - Mime type, choose vndandroiddocument/directory
You can then launch the activity with the parameter.
This will be recorded in History(the clock sign). You can long-press the entry and create a Shortcut.
Do you have any other cases or ideas where this would be usedul? Please do share them here.
On a tangent, Material files allows making shortcuts to files and folders. Markor, text editor app, allows the same too.
I like exploring activities with it, but I can't think of any practical use. Mostly because if there's a launchable activity, usually you can add shortcut of it, and all the rest are internal activities.
Ok, just thought of something: I used it to create a shortcut to screen flud of my simple flash light app
Getting to something like these is nearly impossible without an app like activity launcher
Cool. Could you share how you access these?
I know the ##4636## dialer code for the 2nd one