About Activity Starter
!!! This app is no longer under active development. Please also consider the newer app "Yanas - Yet Another Notification App Starter" (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=en.dennishafemann.yanas), which is more intuitive and easier to use. !!!
Main-Feature:
Add almost every App to your notification bar / -area for a quick access.
What is Activity Starter ?
Activity Starter gives you a quick and comfortable solution to launch, memorize, create shortcuts for almost every App or it's activity-part-views.
What is a "activity-part-view" ?
The most available Apps organizes it's GUI with "activities". Activities are parts of the App which are holding different content, like the main-view of the App, the contact-site or favorites, bookmarks or past made downloads.
How do I use Activity Starter ?
Activity Starter gives you a searchable list with all avail- and callable Apps/Activities. This list includes your own installed Apps
and system-sided Apps, which are not listed in your App-Launcher. For example "Settings -> Battery-Information" or your bookmarks-list in your browser-app.
In addition, Activity Starter gives you a way to "catch" an App/Activity. That means, you can navigate to your favorite App/Activity and "catch" this
UI, add it to your list for later calls.
You can call those Apps/Activities later from your list. Favorites can be set and quick access icons added to your home screen or your notification area.
For this it's required, that the App/Activity is developly under public access to the system. Just give it a try.
What features are available ?
* Frees system-owned Apps/Activities for sa usage.
* Interactive mode, catch Apps/Activities.
* Call potentially every App/Activity.
* Favorize your Apps/Activities.
* Favorize your favorites and put it in your notification area for a really quick access.
* Add Apps/Activities with a Widget to your home screen, singled or listed.
* ... or to your notification area (as well as an icon panel)
* Several home screen widgets, custom colored.
* Creation of homescreen shrotcuts.
* Fast task switching to last App/Activity from task history with the Flying Back Button
Available languages
* German
* English
Which permissions are used and why ?
- Run At Startup - This permission is required to start services when the device boot completed. This is needed to start the notification-area-services, which adds Apps/Activities to the notififcation area, if enabled in settings.
- Get active tasks - This permission is required for "catching" the Apps/Activities.
- On screen-Overlay - This permisson is required for displaying the "catching"-button on top of all other Apps.
- Vibrationsalarm steuern - This permission is required for releasing a small vibrations signal, when loading a list of Apps/Activities finished. This is just informational.
- Adding shortcuts to you home screen - This permission is required to add shortcuts to Apps/Activities to your home screen.
Download and install
Activity Starter version 1.5.0 on your
Android device!
Downloaded 1,000+ times, content rating: Everyone
Android package:
de.dennishafemann.activitystarter, download Activity Starter.apk
by T####:
Was used to doing this with Nova launcher, but I am using the google launcher now. I was able to create shortcuts to launch the google dialer and call history after replacing my stock dialer.