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If you often use the same program or the same file on your mobile device, then to make your work easier, you need to know how to display a shortcut on your Android desktop.

It is much more convenient to open a service from the main screen than to go into the menu, find the desired shortcut among the many icons and click on it.

And the situation with individual files is even more complicated: you first need to find the necessary one in the “My files” folder (and you don’t always remember where it is located), and then only open it.

All these actions take many times longer than if you launch them directly from the desktop.

How to bring software icons to the desktop

WITH software icons there are no special problems. In order for the shortcut, which is still in the main menu, to appear on the main screen, you need;

• Click on the application shortcut;
• Hold your fingers for a couple of seconds;
• When the icon appears on the desktop, move it to the desired location.

Thus, the software shortcut will be in two places at once: on the main screen and in the main menu. You will be able to launch the service from anywhere.

How to display a file shortcut

Unfortunately, the developers of this OS did not think about how it was possible to open individual files without going into the menu.

That is, if you open the "My files" folder, select any one and click on it, then information will appear on how to delete, rename, send and perform other actions with a separate file, but not a word on how to drag it to the desktop.

To solve this problem, you will need:

• Install in mobile device ES File Explorer File Manager, which is a free file manager;
• Start the service;
• Find folder with the desired file and open it;
• Having found the file that you need to display on the main screen, press and hold on it until the selection area appears;
• Select the desired shortcut without affecting the others, and in the list of options that appears, select "More";
• In the window, click on "Add to desktop".

If these steps are successful, the shortcut to the file will be on the main screen, and now you can open it from there.

But not everyone wondered if there are any hidden features and how much more convenient the Android OS can be when all the hidden features are known.

Secrets of the mobile OS will greatly expand your understanding of the functionality and methods of system management. Below is the most interesting feature and the most useful for newbies.

Secret. Access to contacts in the phone book or e-book.

To avoid looking for the contact you use the most.

Actions:

1. By long pressing on a free space of the desktop, we call context menu (depending on the version of the android, either at the bottom of the screen or just above the finger), in which we select "Add shortcut" (add shortcut - it often happens that in the non-original version this phrase is in English).

In this case, a shortcut will be created that, when pressed, will call the subscriber you need. Using this scheme, you can install shortcuts on the Android desktop for the subscribers you need that you often dial.

If you often need to write an SMS message for a specific subscriber, then you need to select "Contact" or write an SMS when setting up a shortcut.

Now you have mastered one of the secrets of the Android OS and are able to mobile dial the subscribers you need. Standard way adding numbers to favorites and using 10 shortcut numbers is well-known and is not of great interest to users of Android devices, therefore, to access the keyboard, you need to press three more times on the screen. And in this case, on the main screen, you will need numbers and applications immediately after unlocking.

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If the phone in your hands is not new and you already have it account Google, then you first have to go to "Settings" and click on the "Add account" button. On old android versions it may be in the "Accounts and Synchronization" section, but since version 4.4 KitKat it is on home page settings. After adding an account, click on it (it will be in the “Google” menu in the “Accounts” section) and select what exactly you want to sync with this device.

If you do not want your account to be subsequently linked to the phone on which you do this, then you can remove the account linking after you copy the contacts to your phone (or even just to your address book). To do this, go to “Settings”, enter the “Google” menu, select an account, click on the “Menu” button (three vertical dots or a physical button on your smartphone) and click on “Delete account”.

Regardless of which of the two methods you used, wait a few minutes and enter the Contacts application - most likely, the contacts will already be downloaded to your phone. What to do with them next is up to you.

15.08.2017 Frenk 2 comments

In old phones, you could bring a contact to a specific key. Then holding it down, you can quickly make a call.

On android samsung and all the others it is not provided for this, but you can transfer the shortcut to the desktop.

Yes, there is no possibility to set a phone contact to a specific button, but you can even make a "speed dial" to a group of contacts.

To do this, you can use the program, which you can download at the end of the recording or use the tools of your smartphone.

With the tips below, you can create a contact icon and learn how to attach to your chosen contact on the main desktop of your smartphone. This operation is very simple and works under the same conditions in most phone models.

By the way, you may have a built-in widget, then just call it (who does not know how) and click on the "Contacts" icon.

Android - how to put a contact on the smartphone desktop

Open the "Contacts" section. Press and hold the name of the selected person. A menu appears on the phone screen.

Depending on the device, select one of the options: transfer to desktop or add a shortcut (Samsung devices).

If this does not work (depending on the phone), then on the desktop in an empty place and hold your finger until the menu appears. Select its "Shortcuts".

Now in the next menu, select "speed dial" when you want to be able to quickly call a person or send an SMS.

The program put a contact on the android desktop

Then, depending on your needs, choose what you need: a quick message, a quick call or a "Contact".

I choose "quick call". A shortcut is placed on the desktop, and the phone book opens to me - I need to press and hold my finger.

Live on the desired one and the contact will instantly appear on the desktop.

If you download the widget below., Then the actions with it are almost the same, only the first one is automatically added in it, which of course you do not want. Then just click on it from your desktop and click edit.

Article from Anna Sebova engaged in embroidery and programming. She combines both on her blog, along the way telling us about various interesting tricks.

I have a blog "Madame Storozhenko" about needlework. He is very young, and I often visit him from my mobile, thinking about what to write about, how to improve it. At the same time, storing it in open browser tabs on a mobile is not very convenient, bookmarks in a mobile browser do not suit me either. Therefore, I decided to pin the link icon (shortcut) to the blog on my desktop mobile phone.

The site icon is made simply: in the mobile settings, you need to select the item " Add to home screen". But the created icon did not remind me of my site at all, but caused bewilderment. Only by clicking on the label or reading the signature, I understood what it was all about. You understand that this is inconvenient.

Then I found easy way make the icon (or label, whichever is more convenient) more recognizable. It's very simple, you just need to perform a couple of steps.

Action one

Take the original image of the site logo (or favicon) and crop it to standard sizes for different devices. In my case, the logo and the favicon are the same image.
I chose the following sizes that are convenient for mobile and tablets:

- for iOS two files: apple-touch-icon.png and apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png - 57 by 57 pixels:

- for Windows Phonefile windows-icon-70-70.png:

— Androidpicks up one of the pictures and does not require additional images and links.

Second action

< link rel = "apple-touch-icon" href = "/mobile-icons/apple-touch-icon.png"/ > < link rel = "apple-touch-icon-precomposed"sizes \u003d "57x57" href \u003d "/mobile-icons/apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png"/ > < meta name = "msapplication-square70x70logo"content \u003d "/mobile-icons/windows-icon-70-70.png"/ >

Display the link to the site on the mobile phone desktop. To do this, open the desired site in the browser:

Then open the browser menu (click on the three vertical dots in the upper right corner of the browser) and select the item highlighted in the screenshot:

This window will appear:

Select the item " Add to«.

Then minimize the browser window and ... voila! A site with a beautiful and recognizable icon is located on the desktop, and even accessible with one touch.

It couldn't be more convenient.

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