Download Shortcuts For Android
Eloy Mertz
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With these app-added shortcuts, in contrast, you can drag and stack to your heart's content. And, in fact, that opens up another interesting possibility: You can create folders of related shortcuts to give yourself a custom productivity command center.
That's the case with Gmail, for instance. Press and hold your finger anywhere on your home screen and find the widget-adding option, then find Gmail in the list and look for the "Gmail label" item. That'll let you add a one-tap shortcut to any specific label from your inbox on your home screen, and just like the other shortcuts we've been building, that shortcut can then be combined with any others into a folder for maximal organization.
The simplest solutions would revolve around setting up dedicated build types or product flavors. In your case, it would seem like build types are the appropriate model. Having a dedicated shortcuts XML resource per build type would work. In theory, you could have dedicated string resources per build type with the application ID (e.g., app_id, set up using resValue in Gradle), then use android:targetPackage="@string/app_id" in a single shortcuts XML resource. However, I am uncertain if we can use string resources there.
This week I updated to Android Studio 4.0, and one of the first things I noticed was that some of my favorite shortcuts like CMD+W has changed to CMD+F4 (which the touchbar wont actually show the F keys anymore), and also CMD+O changed to CMD+N. Is there any way to get them back to what they were to set to in Android Studio 3?
I was trying to create a note on my tablet (Samsung S6) using an external keyboard and found that other than cut/paste and a few system-wide commands, the usual Evernote shortcuts don't seem to work. What I tried was to insert the full date/time. I'm used to Alt-Shift-D doing this but that doesn't do anything here. I tried searching the forum for a list of shortcut keys but that came up empty. Is there a list somewhere?
Hi, @Salvor, and welcome to the forums. As @jefito says, the Evernote Android app has to work within the constraints of the Android operating system, and doesn't offer all of the keyboard shortcuts that the Windows desktop program does. (The same is actually true of the Evernote Web client under Windows, since it has to interact through a browser.) I've actually been pleased with all the functionality that a Bluetooth keyboard does add to the app, including a limited set of keyboard shortcuts. My BT KB has a touchpad, giving me mouse functions for clicking menus, selecting text, etc. Sorry, this probably isn't telling you anything you don't already know. We just have to work with what we get, which is different in different environments.
It's fairly trivial to add keyboard shortcuts to android apps, just as it is to add them to windows apps or to web apps. I think the problem is that Evernote just hasn't done so. Maybe they will at some stage - it would certainly improve the web app immensely.
Hmm. Maybe it depends on expectations about what kinds of Android devices and keyboards people will be using. On my phone, the onscreen keyboards don't offer Ctrl or Alt keys, so I'm not sure what shortcuts would be possible, without intercepting keystrokes that are meant to insert characters. Can you elaborate?
Yeah, i think you're right that Android is mostly thought of as an operating system for phones. However, Android apps can now be installed on Chromebooks and you can always attach a bluetooth keyboard to your android device anyway. But most people won't, so most people won't be affected by missing keyboard shortcuts. Personally i don't regard this as being that important. I use a Blackberry Key2 as my daily phone (running Android 8 ) and although it has a physical keyboard (with 2 physical meta keys: shift and alt), the screen is just way too small to spend too much time formatting notes. If i want to do that, i move to my Chromebook and use the web app.
If you want to, you can of course also install a keyboard from the playstore with alt + ctrl + esc + lots of other keys. It's just that most people won't do this, so it doesn't make much sense for Evernote to spend time adding keyboard shortcuts to Android.
Of course Evernote seems to be wanting to move to one code base to rule them all (which requires using a technology which can be compiled to javascript for the web and android byte code and whatever-iOS-uses: desktop platforms are much less picky about the technology you use). Maybe they could add keyboard shortcuts to this shared code base and then all platforms would profit from them automatically.
Not sure what's to request. KB shortcuts are only possible with special keyboards (onscreen or Bluetooth), which not many users use, or on Chromebooks. Only guessing, but the majority of Android users are likely on phones with no shortcuts available. IAC, the new editor, when it rolls out, might already include this. But what the hey, it's your nickel.
I'm using the tablet sort of as a spare system in a spare room. With a large monitor it's decent and with a BT mouse and keyboard most things are possible. Just not keyboard shortcuts I guess. I put the date/time into notes perhaps a few times a day and at 16 keystrokes each time that adds up. Why over the span of a few years I might waste as much as 2 or three minutes! Seriously though, it's no big deal. I'm using a Logitech K480 BT keyboard (it has a slot to hold tablets) and since it has the regular Windows keys I thought there might be a way to save all that time by using shortcuts.
Interesting. There appears to be a number of users who would appreciate keyboard shortcuts on the Android app. Though when you think about it, it isn't that surprising. Android is far and away the most used operating system in the world.
Hi everybody, just upgraded to Android 13 on my new FP4 and noticed that the shortcuts for the camera and flashlight have disappeared. Anybody having the same issue? And any idea how to get these shortcuts back to lockscreen?
The home screen on your smartphone or tablet isn't just a place where your apps live. You can also add shortcuts to websites. Here's how to create an "app" for any website on your device, allowing you to access shortcuts directly from your home screen.
The easiest way to fix double-shortcuts in the IDE is to find the "Apply Changes" keyboard shortcut in preferences, remove the keyboard shortcut, then re-add it. That causes Android Studio to notify you of conflicts and how to fix it:
During setup on my android, there was a widget or shortcut-like option that looked like the 1password logo and just lived on the right side of the phone screen. I had turned it off, but would like to try it out. How/where do I turn that feature back on?
Yes! that's exactly it, thank you. I actually got a random android notification about turning it on so I have it now. But it doesn't do anything?! tap, drag, long press....nothing happens. Wondering if there is a setting within the app I also have to enable?
Does it seem to be a specific Xiaomi problem or is it due to certain settings? The required permissions have been set (see above). Are there any other settings that could prevent shortcuts from being set?
The Web shortcut configuration profile allows an administrator to create URL shortcuts to the home screen of a target device. The administrator can upload a custom icon for the shortcut, or use the default provided by Miradore. When the end user clicks a shortcut, it will invoke the default handler for that URL type. Typically for standard web shortcuts, a web browser is opened, but it always depends on what kind of applications the end user has installed on the target device.
Even though the profile is named web shortcut, it is also possible to create shortcuts with URLs that are not HTTP or HTTPS. What happens when the shortcut is clicked always depends on the target device, whether it has an application installed that knows how to handle that URL. You could use protocols such as ftp:// etc. If no protocol is defined in the address, it is assumed that it is a HTTP-shortcut.
Whether this configuration works or not depends solely on the home screen application (launcher) used in the target device. As the end users may use a custom home screen application that does not support remote creation of home screen shortcuts, we cannot guarantee that this configuration will work on all your devices.
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