Activity Starter

About Activity Starter Android App

!!! 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.