Activity Launcher 2.4.1 for Android

Activity Launcher 2.4.1 is a free Android tool by Adam Szalkowski that lists the individual screens, called activities, of the apps on your phone. You can download Activity Launcher for Android to open settings pages that are hard to reach from menus and to put shortcuts to them on the home screen.

What Activity Launcher does

Every Android app is made of activities: the main screen, a settings page, a hidden diagnostics panel and so on. Normally you can only reach the ones the developer links from the menus. Activity Launcher reads the list of activities that installed apps declare and shows them grouped by app, so you can open a specific screen with one tap. This is handy when a phone maker has hidden a useful system setting, when you want a direct shortcut to a deep settings page you use daily, or when a launcher does not let you create shortcuts the way you want. Developers and testers also use such tools to jump straight to a screen without clicking through an app. Because it only launches what already exists on the phone, it does not add new features to other apps; it simply gives you a different door into them.

Key facts

• Version: 2.4.1
• Developer: Adam Szalkowski
• Platform: Android
• Licence: freeware
• Size: about 3.24 MB according to catalogue data

How to install and use it

1. Install Activity Launcher from Google Play.
2. Open it and wait for the list of apps to load.
3. Expand an app and tap an activity to open that screen.
4. Use the activity's options to create a home screen shortcut to it.

Use it carefully

Hidden screens are hidden for a reason. Some are unfinished, some are meant for service engineers, and changing values there can break network, battery or display settings. Open unknown activities only to look, and change settings only when you know what they do. If an app crashes when you open one of its activities, that is expected: not every screen is meant to be launched on its own.

Safety and price

Activity Launcher is free. We do not have an official website for it in our data, so install it from Google Play rather than from APK mirror sites, where modified copies may carry malware. Check the permissions it requests and keep it updated.

Removing shortcuts

Remove shortcuts you no longer need the usual way from your launcher, and delete any that stop working after an app or system update, because the screen they point to may have been renamed or removed.

Pros and cons

• Pro: quick access to screens buried in menus.
• Pro: shortcuts to any activity on the home screen.
• Pro: free and simple.
• Con: easy to change a setting you did not mean to.
• Con: some activities crash when opened directly.

Alternatives

A similar tool in our listings is QuickShortcutMaker. For more control over apps, see Shizuku, and for a new home screen, Apex Launcher.