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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

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.

  • Xeroxchasechase@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    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.

      • Achyu@lemmy.sdf.orgOP
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        3 days ago

        Cool. Could you share how you access these?

        I know the ##4636## dialer code for the 2nd one

          • Achyu@lemmy.sdf.orgOP
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            2 days ago

            Thank you

            Edit:
            The activity under settings seem to be not there in my phone. Likely under a different name. Will find it out.

            • masterofn001@lemmy.ca
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              2 days ago

              Every once in a while when I’m feeling super ADD I’ll go through every activity in every system app to see if anything is neat.

              I also found the same setting located in Call Services

              com.android.phone/.settings.RadioInfo

              • Achyu@lemmy.sdf.orgOP
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                2 days ago

                Thank you

                Are there any other cool activities that you like? Or find useful?

                I once thought about whether I could have a shortcut for Pipepipe/Newpipe Feed refresh, but it doesn’t seem to be an exported activity.

                • masterofn001@lemmy.ca
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                  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
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                    1 day ago

                    Thank you.

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

                    Is there one for Google play services?