"App shortcuts" refers to quick access icons or buttons on a device's home screen or app drawer that allow you to directly launch specific features or actions within an app without having to navigate through the entire app. It saves time by providing convenient ways to jump directly to the desired function within an app.
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You can also use different tile sizes, allowing you to view live tile information on a larger tile or fit many more
app shortcuts on a single screen.
Action Launcher's unique «Covers» — think folders with more functionality — have gotten even better and now serve
as app shortcuts as well as a folder with more options inside.
In particular, users can take advantage of rounded icons on the Pixel Launcher home screen, along
with app shortcuts.
You can
add app shortcuts to this main screen by dragging and dropping icons between home screens.
But that's not the limit: add up to 20 favourite
app shortcuts in total and a flick of the thumb will scroll up and down through them in a very natural fashion.
You can
show app shortcuts, a set of screen capture tools, contacts, and music controls, but not things like upcoming events and quick settings.
It lacks Android features,
like app shortcuts, and has an app drawer that not everyone will fall in love with.
Create shortcut icons: Once you have your list of
app shortcuts pop up on the screen as above, you can drag and place them on the screen as their own individual icons.
App shortcuts provide quick access to key actions and are brought up by long pressing on the icon from anywhere in the launcher.
Options appear to include any activity in an installed app that has its
own app shortcut.
Edge Sense allows users to squeeze the frame of the phone to trigger actions and
open app shortcuts.
The icon will appear on your home screen like any
other app shortcut or widget, so you can drag it around and put it wherever you like.
That means that
while App shortcuts are cool, there are very, very few people who can use them right now straight out of the box.
Then, you could change the icon for your
hybrid app shortcut, so it wouldn't be so bad at least.
Tap and hold a
stock app shortcut to bring up a new list of quick actions for the said application.
Adaptive icons make it easier for developers to alter the shape of any
given app shortcut.
You can
move app shortcuts around the launcher page and scroll up and down to view the apps you have installed.
It looks excellent and provides plenty of room
for app shortcut and widgets on the home screen.
Create shortcut icons: Once you have your list
of app shortcuts pop up on the screen, you can drag and place them on the screen as their own individual icons.
The new phones also have a Pixel Launcher, rounded app icons, image keyboard support as well
as app shortcuts, features that are expected to make the jump via the update.
Action Launcher v26.0 also sees the introduction of an Android O style widget picker, accessed via the
new App Shortcuts UI:
Android O style Notification Dots,
App Shortcut styling, notification previews, oh, and Google Now integration for all:
The MIUI 9 is also
bringing app shortcuts to Xiaomi phones through a Google Now - like pane that occupies the leftmost home screen.
The update also gets rid of Share Link due to incompatibility with Android N as well as a bunch of other redundant
app shortcuts from the apps menu, for instance, Splendid, Audio Wizard, Flashlight and System update.
There's another layer here: If you find yourself often going to the same place and doing the same thing in an app, you can make the long -
press app shortcut into a regular home screen shortcut.
The company also revealed that Nest's app now
supports App Shortcuts on devices running Android 7.1 Nougat — a small number for now, but it's great that the Google - owned company is paying attention to the market.
It would also be nice if we have the ability to rearrange the position of the toggles and the quick
launch app shortcuts.
There are several important Google apps that don't
offer app shortcuts right now, including Hangouts, Google Plus, Translate, and the Play Store app.