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My name is Yuriy.

I'm a professional software developer with more than a decade of experience developing native Android applications.
I'm looking for exciting and challenging projects where I can apply my skills.

Tech: Kotlin, Java, Compose, Jetpack, Firebase, MVVM

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ymysochenko/
Contact: https://sdex.dev/contact

activitymanager's Issues

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How I can access "Running services" in "Developer options" activity?

How I can access in "Developer options" -> "Running services" activity?

Display an application version in the list

[Feature Request] Support searching for activities in all applications on the main interface

The main interface can only search the name of the application. To search the activities in a application, you must to click on that application.
Is it possible to search for activities in all applications on the main interface?

App becomes unresponsive when opening manifest viewer

When I open the manifest viewer, the app becomes unresponsive for several seconds, sometimes even several minutes if the manifest is really big. The initial render seems to display the manifest just fine but I can't scroll at all and usually get the "Activity Manager isn't responding" prompt.

Android version: 11
Activity Manager version: 5.2.1
Tested with these packages:

• Firefox Nightly (org.mozilla.fenix: hangs for ~25-30s
• Google Photos (com.google.android.apps.photos): had to kill the app after a couple minutes

[Feature Request] Automatically complete input boxes in the intent launcher

Some inputs can be automatically completed, just like when creating shortcuts.

• package name
• class name (When the package name has been entered correctly)
• mime type
• action

At this point, the list dialogs provided for action and mime can be removed.

Testing

Test run

Cryptographic APIs misuses

I'm a PhD student interested in finding security vulnerabilities in open source projects.

We found a total of 06 warnings (indicating potential vulnerabilities) when running the CogniCrypt static analyzer (*) on ActivityManager (or its library dependencies). We documented each one of these issues in private gists for the sake of confidentiality (non-disclosure).

Can you please let us know whether we can share these gists with you? We are eager to evaluate the perception of developers (e.g. severity of these warnings) and improve ActivityManager's security, and the quality of the reports of static analysis tools.

(*) https://github.com/CROSSINGTUD/CryptoAnalysis

Data loss on double screen rotation

Hi, this issue has a relation with #5.

We found failures similar in activities:

• ActivitiesListActivity: menu bar changed, screen text disappears, various properties disappear

Before and after double screen rotation

Before and after double screen rotation

• AddShortcutDialogActivity: changed menu bar

Before and after double screen rotation

• MainActivity: changed menu bar

Before and after double screen rotation

• ManifestViewerActivity: returned to previous activity, several properties disappear

Before and after double screen rotation

Note:

• Double screen rotation: It is executed twice to reach a state that should be exactly the same as the screen before if no data loss occurred.
• A data loss problem occurs when data is accidentally deleted or state variables are accidentally assigned with default or initial values.

Tiles Support

Please add tiles support

How to launch app info shortcut

Hi, can someone suggest me how do I open in one click the app info screen of a precise chosen app?

I tried like this but I am no expert in this.

Thanks

Request to Add More Languages to ActivityManager

Dear ActivityManager Development Team,

I am writing to request that additional languages be added to the ActivityManager software. As a user of this software, I have found it very useful in my daily work, but I believe that it could be even more effective if it were available in more languages.

Specifically, I would like to suggest the addition of [list of languages] to the software. These languages are widely spoken in different regions of the world and would allow more users to benefit from the features and functionalities of ActivityManager.

I understand that adding new languages requires resources and time, but I believe it would be a worthwhile investment for both users and the development team. By making the software accessible to a wider audience, ActivityManager can increase its reach and impact, while also helping users who may not speak the currently supported languages.

Thank you for your consideration of this request. Please let me know if you need any further information or if there is anything else I can do to help.

Data loss while using the app (dialog disappears on-screen rotation)

When I perform these sequences of events, the dialog disappears on-screen rotation:

1. Go to the Main activity
2. Tap in Settings (gear button icon)
3. Tap in Theme
4. A fragment similar to this will appear:
   Before rotation:

5. Force the pause from the activity and then return to the activity (double rotation). Note that the fragment disappears and goes back to the main activity.

Note: the pause from activity can be performed in several ways. We suggest using a double rotation (starts in portrait, goes to landscape, and back to portrait) with this function previously enabled in the smartphone.

The expected behavior is the return to the previous state with the fragments of the previous image.

However, the fragment disappears and goes back to the main activity.

After rotation:

Device:

• Device: Moto G30 with OS: Android 11
• Version: 4.1.4
• Device language: English

Shizuku

adb shell sh /storage/emulated/0/Android/data/moe.shizuku.privileged.api/start.sh echo start

Improve searching in manifest files

Add s search bar similar to browsers.

Firefox (at the bottom):

Chrome (at the top):

[Feature Request] Select icon of installed apps when creating shortcuts in the intent launcher history

I want to customize the launch parameters of some app shortcuts, but I want to use their icons.

Thanks for the useful app.

Compatibility with Tasker

Please add compatibility with Tasker .

./gradlew assemble

Add an option to use system colors

Closing an application bottom sheet menu cancels the current search

Steps to reproduce:

1. Search for any text
2. Open an application bottom sheet menu
3. Close the menu using the back button and touch the outside of it
4. The search is canceled

[Feature request] Add sort options and favorites

Sort app list by app name, package name, install time, update time, etc.
Favorites list, people can add frequently used activities into the list.

This app is good. Thank you very much!

Show total number of activity

Basically the title. Show total numbers of activities an app has after app's name if possible.

[Feature Request] Use MaterialAlertDialogs when creating shortcuts

This will make the UI more harmonious.

Similar to #3, Notices scroll position also gets lost after device rotation

Similar to #3, Notices scroll position also gets lost after device rotation

Before rotation:

After rotation:

Manifest view refreshes after rotating device

Open a manifest file and scroll to a random position. Rotate screen and you will find the page scroll back to top. Then I need to manually restore the position.

Before rotation:

After rotation:

I was testing on v4.1.4 on Android 10

Activitieslooker

Custom icon is not supported for Intent shortcut yet. Only for activity.

I want to recognize HistoryActivity-made shortcuts at a glance, without reading the label. But it says Custom icon is not supported for Intent shortcut yet. Only for activity. Example use-cases that require HistoryActivity are at #8.

Intent Builder Feedback

Hello, I have some quick thoughts about the intent builder (no particular order):

1. the mime type vnd.android.document/directory is missing from the list. It's hard to remember exactly how to type it manually.*
2. The intent silently sets FLAG_ACTIVITY_PREVIOUS_IS_TOP which isn't always wanted and AFAIK it can't be unset.
3. +1 for icon support #9
4. Thanks for creating it!

*I use that to create shortcuts to specific folders for the DocumentsUI Files app, I don't know how many other apps react to it but at least some file managers do.

com.garena.game.kgth

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Creating shortcut activity as root?

Launching activities as root is possible but creating shortcut of the activity as root? Is this feature intentionally avoided?

[Feature request] Add translation links within the About page

This does not need to enter github to translate applications, especially for some areas that may not be able to access github very friendly.

[Feature request] Pass URI resources with --grant-read/write-uri-permission to launched application

I'm trying to use activity manager to make a shortcut to open up a text file in an editor.

I can tell the editor which file to attempt to open by including it into the data part of the intent, such as content://com.termux.documents/document/%2Fdata%2Fdata%2Fcom.termux%2Ffiles%2Fhome%2FAchats.txt or content://com.android.externalstorage.documents/primary%3Aessai.txt

However, this fails because the editor has no permission.

If on the other hand, I tick the FLAG_GRANT_READ_URI_PERMISSION, i get an error because ActivityManager has no permission :-)

Suggestion: include a UI where ActivityManager can request a persistable-uri-permission from the user (this would pop up a file picker, where user chooses the file to make accessible), and use that permission to grant to the target.
Another advantage of this would be that this removes the hassle of needing to figure out what the URI of the file actually is (see the 2 rather unreadable examples in the second paragraph).

The Shortcut Maker app from Playstore handles it this way, but unfortunately has other bugs which makes it not usable (drops other flags such as FLAG_ACTIVITY_MULTIPLE_TASK and FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_DOCUMENT)

Thanks,

Alain

Shortcut Activity

Thanks for the useful app.

Just a small request: a shortcut-creation activity for the reasons mentioned at SimpleMobileTools/Simple-Contacts#1019.

Thanks

Toggle to display cutout-->waterfall cutout mode

to take advantage of the full length of the mobile screen when reading pdfs I want to automate the process of going to developer options-->display cutout-->waterfall cutout mode, and then open the Readera app to read the pdfs. When finished I have to switch to normal screen mode.
How could I do it with this app?

Polish translation

polish_translation.zip

Shortcut not working "App isn't installed"

Using OneUI 5.1 on Galaxy S21

I made a shortcut for "com.android.settings.notification.history.NotificationHistoryActivity" inside "com.android.settings", but when I tried to open the shortcut, a toast message says "App isn't installed", but if I try to open directly form the list (in Activity Manager) it opens normally.

Check duplicate history items

Hi.
In the current version, addToHistory() will not check if the history item with the same parameters already exists in the history. IMO this app will be more convenient if the exactly same history items will be shown only once. Making this feature optional is also great.
Some users, including me, treat the history as an alternative to shortcut. In this case, we don't need to record what parameters are used each time, we just need to record the parameters themselves. Maybe you could delete the existing one when adding an item.
Anyway, thank you for this amazing tool!

Support `setData()`

I want to work around a Matrix Element bug in making shortcuts; I want to choose a custom icon for a shortcut to Firefox Fennec.

I can do both with this app, if it lets me setData() to a custom URI.

// im.vector.app.features.link.LinkHandlerActivity - mozilla.components.feature.pwa.WebAppLauncherActivity
Intent intent = new Intent();
intent.setClassName(packageName, activityName);
intent.setData(android.net.Uri.parse(permalink));
ctx.startActivity(intent);