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Advanced activities and shortcuts launcher

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

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?

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

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, documentsui.files) app to open the Android/data folder.
Activity manager can be used to create a shortcut for that

  1. Search for and open the Files app in Activity Manager and choose the Launch with parameters option for the FilesActivity
  2. Action, choose ACTION_VIEW
  3. Data = content://com.android.externalstorage.documents/document/primary%3AAndroid%2Fdata%2Forg.thunderdog.challegram%2Ffiles%2Fdocuments or any other directory you like
  4. Mime type, choose vnd.android.document/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.

  • masterofn001
    2·
    2 days ago

    I mostly use it to access hidden system settings, tests or similar, or to a shortcut within a shortcut.

    One I do use frequently is forcing google system updates using

    Under google services
    com.google.android/.gms.update.SystemUpdateActivity

    Under google play store
    com.google.android.finsky.systemupdateactivity.SystemUpdateActivity

    Another is accesaing the notification log. Not just the notification history that’s available via the settings menu.

    com.android.settings/.Settings$NotificationStationActivity

    • Achyu@lemmy.sdf.orgOP
      1·
      1 day ago

      Thank you.

      The first two activities led me to the system updates activity.

      Is there one for Google play services?

      • masterofn001
        2·
        1 day ago

        The one under play services (gms), for me, is the ota system update.

        The one under play store (finsky), for me, launches the google system update.