QuickShortcutMaker

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This app can create a shortcut to an application from the list of activities which are installed on your phone.
Even if so many applications are installed, you can choose an activity smoothly.

You can also use the QuickShortcutMaker for searching the app which you want to launch.
If you want to use the app which you don't use frequently, maybe you have no shortcuts for it. So, you may have to search the app from a list of many apps. Even if you know the name of the app, it's hard to find it.
In this situation, the QuickShortcutMaker will help you finding the app. Please try!

This may be useful. But please use it at your own risk!
You can make shortcuts to hidden setting screens which are usually not accessible.
Even if you encountered any problems using this app or shortcuts created by this app, I don't have any responsibility about that. Please be sure to use this app at your own risk.

About Internet access permission:
From the version 2.0.1, for a more rapid improvement of the app, you will be requested an additional permission to access network so that the app can send a detailed error report to developer.
The app uses network only to send error reports.
And when it communicates, a confirmation message will be displayed, so please rest assured.

for Launcher3 of Cyanogenmod
If you cannot create shortcut, please try the following steps:
1. Long-tap the home screen.
2. Tap "WIDGETS".
3. Long-tap "Activities" which has the QuickShortcutMaker's icon.
4. Drag it to somewhere on the screen.
5. QuickShortcutMaker will be launched.
6. Select an activity, edit it, and tap "Create".
7. A shortcut will be created on the home screen.

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Recent updates:
(v2.4.0)
- Added Italian and Arabic translations.
- Adapted to AndroidPhone7 theme.
- Changed dialog UI.
- Fixed a bug that the shortcut for Google Play cannot be opened.
- Added function to ask you to rate this app. (Forgive me if you don't like such a thing.)
(v2.3.0)
- Added translations to many languages. (Français, Español, Português, Polski, 한국어, 中文(简体), 中文(繁體), Bahasa Indonesia)
- Added support for some other themes. (Atom / Solo, etc.)
- Added several other improvements.
(v2.2.0)
- It is now possible to operate multiple items from the activity list by long-tapping the items. You can add them to favorites or share.
- Changed the text format in which to share the application information.
- Added the types of themes that can be selected icon (ADW / Nova / Apex / LauncherPro / GO / Holo).
- Added the number of icons in the list of themes.
- Changed the UI of shortcut editing screen.
- Added German translation.
- Added a lot of improvements.
(v2.1.0)
- Added support for tablet devices.
- Added function to share app information as text.
- Improved UI of some screens.
- Fixed some bugs.
(v2.0.3)
- Added function to open the App info screen from the shortcut editing screen. (Android 2.3 or later only)
- Fixed a minor bug and UI.
(v2.0.2)
- Fixed a bug that the app crashes while searching at a certain condition.
(v2.0.1)
- Added error report function to send detailed information when the app crashes or when you see "Failed to load" message.
- Reduced consumption of the memory so that the models which have low-memory not to crash.
- Search results can be sorted order by names.
- Increased speed of search.
- Fixed a bug on setting icon.
- Fixed a bug that the icon becomes smaller when you use the app on tablets.
(v2.0.0)
- Added history and favorite features.
- Applied Android 4.0(ICS) UI style.
- Activity list is now grouped by app.
- Fixed some bugs.

Keywords
quick, shortcut, maker, create

Reviews

4.6

32,832 total

5 26,310

4 3,666

3 1,324

2 488

1 1,044

Graham Beech

Samsung Galaxy S4 KitKat Finally I found an app that can rename the home screen icon labels, AND remembers them on reboot. It may take a few tries to find the right link to make the shortcut to. If choosing the app name didn't work, use the other list and expand the app's links. Look for one that seems most likely - usually ending with "activity". Does not work on all apps that are on the external SD card. On reboot, some of the shortcuts for them disappeared completely. Otherwise a great app - especially for free!

roy nudi

Amazing application Helps the custom rom users who sometimes don't have the sim toolkit application it helps them create one quick shortcut on the desktop. This is just but one in so many features bundled up with this application. Thank you, and let us prepare the way for the LORD JESUS in repentance, Holiness and Righteousness, with the daily observance of preparing to enter the Kingdom of GOD JEHOVAH. 1thess 4:16-20 1cor 15:50-52. Blessings .

Treyah Rae

Works Well Does exactly what it says and I haven't had any issues. The interface is easy to follow and there not a lot of extra stuff to do. The app gives you all the shortcuts avaliable for an app. Very nice for quick access to text popups for creating text! Also you can try the popup before you create it. And it's available the 'create shortcut' menu on your launcher. No complaints. Good job!

Laird Snow

Thank you so much! It turns out all those guys in all those geeky forums don't always have the answer. I just wanted to remove the text from underneath all my icons on my home screens. I didn't want to have to root. I did not want to install a third party launcher. In this app, I was able to go to applications, create a shortcut, and in the name field it does require at least 1 character. It turns out that the space bar is a character. You have to do each app icon one by one, but that's fine with me it didn't take very long.

Chrys RD

Absolute necessity--no question I have developed a bit of skepticism in deeming any newfound app/utility/etc.--whether found on Play market or no--is a merited use of my own time/energy/ bandwidth. I am rather picky & having been raised by nice, caring parents to have polite regard for others & likewise I am often even more picky in recommendations for others. This app is one of VERY few which I predict to be useful to most anyone in one or more ways for their unique purposes.

Daniel Stoian

Excellent It's very usefully to go fast wherever you want without opening an app, search and select desired point; just create the shortcut. Can select a desired icon from an external icon pack (not incuded). I like to see a light option for interface too. Only one problem, icons are enlarged and croped and that change their aspect.

User reviews

Graham Beech April 14, 2015

roy nudi July 13, 2016

Treyah Rae January 16, 2015

Laird Snow December 30, 2015

Chrys RD January 2, 2015

Daniel Stoian June 30, 2015

Steeve M August 19, 2016

MY SHORTCUT NO LONGER WORKS WITH MARSHMALLOW Have a Samsung Galaxy S5 that updated to android 6.0.1 (Marshmallow) and used this to make a shortcut for call blocking. Since the update, the shortcut no longer works. CONTACTED DEVELOPER WITH NO REPLY. I HAVE SINCE WENT TO A DIFFERENT APP THAT WORKS FLAWLESSLY!!!

Jake Billings June 21, 2015

Does what it says At&t hides some programs on my HTC One M8, like Car Mode. This digs them out very easily. Only complaint is that the shortcuts occasionally disappear. Though that may be my phone, or at&t's settings taking over. Not a big deal since it's so easy to recreate the shortcut. All in all, great app

Miles Andrew2 October 15, 2016

This app leads by example. No hiccups \works well Thank you dev for making app free with no unnecessary permissions and most importantly no ads. Excellent work😊 The abilty to donate 1$ would be well deserved. I wish 1 thing tho that i could choose where to place new shortcuts like in the app drawer for example. Some instructions would help newcomers.

Dmitri Trofimov March 1, 2015

Great app! Thank you for the great app! Just one question. I have HTC M8 and normally all icons have shadows underneath them on home screen. But for some reason shortcuts don't. Any idea how to fix this shadow bug? I did try the "clear cache" thing...

Jishnu Jairaj July 19, 2014

Good, could use some work Works perfectly for creating shortcuts to activities like opening the battery usage screen, opening the dictionary widget, etc. Doesn't work when the activity requires an input argument. For example, I tried to create my own direct dial shortcut, and there was no option to include the contact that the shortcut should dial. Hence, the shortcut crashed.

andrew nie February 23, 2014

so many great things a great tool! i love that i can choose from my icon themes. my only problem is that I want a shortcut to chompSMS but the activities.MainActivity seems to do the same thing as activities.QuickCompose i've tried the MainActivity in other places and it works fine but not in this app for some reason. Edit: fixed my issues! 5 stars! Great app!

Angela Bain May 9, 2015

Blocking mode is back! I needed to be able to customize which calls would come through like the old Blocking Mode allowed. The new "Do not disturb" mode only allowed you to choose all or favorites. I need to be able to hand select a few people and that sometimes changes. This app allowed me to find the built in blocking mode and use it! Thank you.

Patrick Van Rinsvelt October 3, 2017

How easy is this? If you are always waiting on developers to make little changes to their apps so that you can get to a specific part of an app, do so no more. This very simple and nicely laid out tool gets you to the things you use most in an app. Perfect!

Jerry Rash October 19, 2017

This is a very handy application. Would you consider doing a version for Android TV leanback launcher banner support? There are a lot of android applications that work well on Android TV if side loaded. Unfortunately, Many authors don't want to go thru the certification process with Google to get the app recognized in playstore. As a result, to use non ATV app on android TV alternate launchers are required to make the apps visible. A tool like this to be able to insert the png banner 320x180 would be a big hit. Also to be able to take advantage of shortcut makers features with supported ATV apps would be the icing on the cake. This is an app I would pay for. Currently, QSM cannot create desktop banners or icons on ATV leanback devices nor do the shortcuts show up in alternate launchers that are supported on ATV.

Mark O December 1, 2015

Superb! It helped me find and create a shortcut to the screen knock setting which I didn't have access to because I'm keeping my lock screen turned off. So it was great being able to find it through this app and then set my own shortcut to it with my own icon picture and name! So when I go somewhere, I can instantly turn off the knock feature now so my screen doesn't get turned on accidentally.

John Hill June 17, 2015

Works. I tried other methods that didn't. Awesome Clock icon disappeared after removing sense and/ or blink feed. This app allows you to create a shortcut on your home page for any Android service! what a hero! Works on s6 well. I wanted a shortcut to battery usage in settings And it works like a charm! Time to donate!

Daniel L July 5, 2014

90% awesome Fantastic app for making customized shortcuts! I don't like text on my home screens, so I rely on this app to scrub app names. Unfortunately, it doesn't find the standard start up 'activity' for all apps (Google authenticator and Wikipedia beta for example). Also, you can't access the system icon list by default (don't actually know if this is possible without preload, but would be a nice touch). Overall, I've been thrilled with this app's capabilities and whole heartedly recommend it.

Tom Carvalho September 29, 2016

Straight to the point! I love apps like this that really do what they are supposed to and do it well! The ability to preview the shortcut before creating it shows the developer carefully thought about the app's interface – many developers forget about simple but yet useful things like that. About the shortcuts, I find them especially useful to skip useless splash screens that are found in some apps – banking apps in particular.

Bobby Phoenix January 1, 2015

Should be default on TouchWiz Launchers. I don't know why Samsung doesn't include a shortcut option for individual settings. I like to keep my battery stats as a shortcut on my main homescreen, but unless I used a different launcher there was no way to do it. This app makes it possible to put that shortcut where I want it on TW. Awesome.

Dylan Faltisco March 19, 2015

Works on Samsung TouchWiz I linked a shortcut to the app manager in about 10 seconds, so it's very easy to use. Just make sure your linked activity actually says "activity" at the end of the file name (fairly obvious advice).

Lee Edgerton October 11, 2015

Good access to settings I have only just started using this app, but it was easy to create a shortcut to apps. I use this a lot to kill apps and to uninstall apps that I try out. It's great to have a shortcut to get there without having to go through the navigation tree.

Roy Baines November 12, 2015

Running Services Android 6 Shortcut just takes you to all apps and not running services. As you are aware we currently have to go through Dev options to access running services as if Google want to hide it. Please try to make actual running services a shortcut possibility, thank you.

Mason Beattie September 21, 2016

KnockON Have you ever been frustrated with your phone turning on in your pocket? Do you have an lg? Can you not find out how to turn it off? Then this is the app for you! Simply download it type knock on in the shortcut creator and when it suggests a shortcut called settings make it and you can disable the double tap on feature!

Samhain Night August 17, 2016

Not for me Was looking for an app that would let me for instance take me to the place where I can turn on/off my data option instead of going to settings, data usage, data settings etc. That's just one example. Overall looks like a good app for everything else.

Bruno Lobo January 4, 2017

Didn't work. I can see apps' icons, change their labels, etc - but the changes won't stick. I thought the app should create a new icon on the home screen with the desired label, but no. Nothing happens whatsoever. Android 5.0 nonrooted.

Jeffrey Taylor February 22, 2017

Search actually doesn't work. And you can't add needed info like URLs to chosen activities. It has a use or few, but not what I needed. Google, how should I know if it makes watch faces? You should know I don't have a smart watch, at least not with an account connected to this one.

Corey Spell September 22, 2015

Still the best Been using this for a long time and still can't find another shortcut maker that can dig up all the hidden app activities etc. this can. Just be careful most of those activities are hidden for a good reason and might cause instabilities launched away from the original app's launch.

NunYah NunYah April 9, 2017

THIS APP CURED MY ERTILE DYSFUNCTIONAL!! I actually came just a little by the time i had finished making my 4th shortcut. I had not had an errection in 15 years an now my wife can barely walk I'm hitting that peach so hard. Thank you QuickShortcutMaker! You've changed my life forever!

Christian Maxwell December 5, 2016

Works Works as described with all the features you need or expect. Don't say this very often about an app but, it needs no improvement. Thats saying a lot from me. I'm very picky and pessimistic about my apps.

wroot December 6, 2015

Great little app Does what it says. Helps with getting to stock android apps hidden by stupid oems or replaced by their half-baked options. Also good to create shortcuts for an often used setting, so you don't have to dig through the settings every time.

Giovanni Martorella January 17, 2017

Awesome Does exactly what it says. Had some apps with long words/names that scrolled letters to a 2nd line and it looked bad. Now I can customise those app names to separate or short form the words and it looks much better. Thanks guys.

Max Wilde June 1, 2016

Needs one last thing! I'm too lazy to get a launcher, after all I want my icons pixel perfect! I create them on my own paint app, but the problem is they don't have any transparency! Let the app support STAMP or PNG files that have transparency! @-@

Ashley Hutton Miller April 22, 2016

Fantastic This helped me a lot on my g4. The knock on screen was driving me nuts and calling 911 while i carried my phone so i had to get it turned off. This app made it easy to find! Highly recommend.

Jonathan Grant November 8, 2015

Very useful but not quite what I am after Very useful for changing app icons, if a bit of a learning curve. Alas I don't seem to be able to change a widget, although it appears in the list, perhaps I need to play around more.

David Stoffregen December 5, 2014

Truly a great app! This app is one of my absolute favorites, and I recommend it to EVERYONE! Along with Fast Reboot, Zooper Widget and Tasker you can make your phone do ANYTHING you want. Zero complaints!

Doug S December 4, 2016

Huge return for minimal effort invested Some android system utilities are more trouble than they are worth. QuickShortcutMaker is NOT one of those! I have spent about 2 minutes so far configuring it and now can get to the Call Reject menu Verizon hides on my LG G4. I look forward to finding more useful shortcuts.

mark s. December 9, 2016

Great app! I don't usually give reviews, but this app can create just about any shortcut you can think of...not just shortcuts to apps or widgets, but shortcuts to activities within applications. I made a shortcut to the developer options, just had to find it in the list of activities.

Dan Scott September 15, 2015

Very Good I needed to launch an activity with no app drawer icon, but when I used a different app, it would crash. This app is perfect. The only issue is that when I try to change icons for phone or messaging, unread counts don't work.

sudhanva g s October 25, 2016

Loved it Amazing that the app lets you create a shortcut for almost everything that may which is hidden or something. I couldn't find my Dolby audio on my leEco le 2.. but using this app, I could easily create a shortcut.. great experience :)

What's New

- Added Italian and Arabic translations.

- Adapted to AndroidPhone7 theme.

- Changed dialog UI.

- Fixed a bug that the shortcut for Google Play cannot be opened.

- Some more improvements.

- Added function to ask you to rate this app. (Forgive me if you don't like such a thing.)

Additional information

Updated

February 23, 2014

Installs

1,000,000 - 5,000,000

Current Version

2.4.0

Requires Android

1.6 and up

Content Rating

Everyone

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sika524

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Email sika524@gmail.com

4-6-3-303, Morishita, Koto-ku, Tokyo, 135-0004, Japan

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