xShortcut FREE
- for Android 2.2 and higher.
xShortcut can serve as an Icon Changer and/or a Renamer of your homescreen shortcuts.
The Supported Shortcut Types: # Application, system setting page, bookmark: e.g. you can change the icon & name for your app shortcuts on homescreen. # Phone call, SMS, contact, email: e.g. make a quick phone call with a single click on the shortcut. # Installed 3rd-party shortcuts types: e.g. Evernote, Line, Dropbox, ... # Custom shortcuts: create your own shortcuts by the Advanced Shortcut Editor (only for users who are familiar with the android Intent spec.)
Extra Feature: Activity Shortcut Capture ModeThis allows you to directly select the active (running) activity as a homescreen shortcut (See NOTE 1). Here, an activity simply refers to a specific window/page within an app, e.g. any settings page within the System Settings (Wi-Fi, Locale, APN, ...). [Limitation]: If a captured activity contains more than one page (e.g. tab-style UI), the shortcut may not direct you to the page you want. In this case, the shortcut normally directs you to the initial page of the activity -
- it depends on the app developer.
Usage:(a) Start Activity Capture Mode either by tapping the first item in the main function list or by enabling the setting "Sticky Notification" (b) Move on to the target activity or window (c) Pull down the status bar and click [Grab Activity] for an attempt to capture the selected window as a shortcut.(d) Edit, Test and Create the target shortcut.(See more examples on the web site: http://sites.google.com/site/appschinyang/ )
NOTE 1: Not all of the activities were originally designed to be launched by other applications/launchers. An activity shortcut only makes sense if the target activity is exported and not guarded by permissions. In xShortcut, a Test procedure will be automatically performed while creating shortcut.
NOTE 2: A *DEFAULT
* icon size based on the device screen density is used to create homescreen shortcuts. You can try different sizes when the DEFAULT one is not applicable to your device (in Preferences Page).
NOTE 3: Auto-save all the created shortcuts data for later use: text format saved for FREE/LITE version and binary format (e.g. icon) saved for FULL version.
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* You can get a FULL version of xShortcut on the Google Play Store. *
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Known Issues:# The Activity Capture Mode of xShortcut does not work when enabling "Don't keep activities" under [Settings][Developer options] (only for Android 4.0+).
# Few users reported that xShortcut running on some "custom ROMs" seems unable to create homescreen shortcuts. If this is the case, I have to say sorry because that is not an easy problem I can deal with for you.
# The System Settings program (since android 3.0) has been rewritten, so that the Activity Capture Mode (provided by xShortcut) does not work well for "system settings". One workaround is to manually edit the intent via the Advanced Shortcut Editor provided by xShortcut, or simply use the shortcut type "System Settings".
Developer: appschinyang ( Email: [email protected] )
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Keywords: shortcut home launcher intent screen custom icon shortcut-maker
Category : Tools
Reviews (29)
2019 device? A work around for not creating a new shortcut is to add a widget from the main screen, choose xshortcut, and then the recent activity.
It's very good for making shortcuts to specific screens of the android Settings. It doesn't let you use icons from icon packs and themes that you might install from the play store, unlike other shortcut-maker apps such as QuickShortcutMaker. It doesn't have a Search feature which would help you find what you're looking for more easily. It has a very powerful shortcut editor. The "Capture Shortcut" feature seems very useful though I've only tried it a little; I captured a screen as a shortcut and saved as a favorite but when I tried to drop it on the home screen as a shortcut it said I needed the paid version. A lot of choices and complexity; if you don't need all this power then you might try a simpler app such as QuickShortcutMaker.
First, Only 4 Stars because initially it appeared to be a little too in depth and probably could be made more user friendly. But to my delight, the application did exactly what I wanted it to. After several hours of searching, it also appears to be the only one that doesn't require some sort of ridiculous launcher purchase. You can turn ANY action or command into a pushbutton Icon. Its basically an "Application Creator", to some degree. I love it now! Maybe I'll go with 5 Stars.
Firstly fantastic app - really like it. I have a problem though when I go into 'browser bookmark' its empty. None of my bookmarks from Chrome appear there - which would be ideal. Even if I create a bookmark in the 'Internet' app which comes preinstalled those bookmarks also don't appear. There seems to be no way to manually add in bookmarks into 'browser bookmark' either. Help! IF you could fix this/let me know what I'm doing wrong and I'll be happy to put the rating up to 5:)
DO NOT INSTALL this app nearly bricked my phone took ages for me to finally do a restore. Shame as the app actually works well, but when you reboot, the fireworks happen.
Would be perfect if only the new shortcuts could survive a phone restart, e.g. when you need to switch batteries. They don't! All gone and you have to redo them from scratch. Uninstalling...
Awesome on my galaxy tab s2, but on my moto g3 it won't load any bookmarks. Probably an Android 6.0 glitch? At least let me enter the URL and label manually.
Thank you very much for this! I needed an application to make shortcuts for Retroarch but none of them allowed me to add Extra parameters to them. This worked perfectly!
Great Application, But if we can also change shotcut icon, then its very very Great
just got , app pretty interesting.get things alot.qucker.and do alot more stuff with. will enjoy this app
Works nicely, recommend! Using S3 here.
App is very good, otherwise.
Need to create icon for bookmarks but unable to do so.
Failed in capture. Crashed during loading shortcut list or app list
Its a good one apps for our phone..
Can create a direct shortcut from almost anything. Intuitive, easy to use
I am using Direct email only and this is the only app what is doing what it has to properly
This is the only shorcut app i could get to work
Activity capture is the best feature
Thankx a lot. I was waiting for this app!
ALL I CAN SAY IS WOW!!!!! THIS IS A ABSOLUTELY GREAT PERSONALIZATION APP!!!!!
Worked on my old phone but on my pixel 2 it won't create shortcuts
only one I found that works with galaxy note 5
Must have
Love it
Thanks
It works :)
Thanks!
Ultimate shortcut tool. Can add Google Weather shortcut to ADW Launcher (which unfortunately doesn't receive shortcuts created from apps).