One feature that brings a serious level of efficiency to Android is App Deportment. With these handy additions, y'all tin can do things like gain quick access to specific features of certain apps, without opening the apps themselves. Say, for case, you desire to compose a quick electronic mail, and you don't want to open the Gmail app. App Deportment make this possible. Even with such quick access to app features, yous tin can brand this even more efficient by adding app shortcuts to your Android abode screen.

Let me show yous how.

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What you demand

App Actions came into being with Android Oreo. So your device needs to be running Android viii or newer. That'south all you lot demand.

Accessing app actions

First, you demand to know how to admission App Deportment. This is simple. I'll demonstrate with the Gmail application (running on a Pixel 3 with Android Pie). From your Android home screen, locate the Gmail app and long press the launcher. You should see a pop-up card, which includes all of the bachelor App Actions for Gmail (Figure A).

Figure A

If yous tap the Compose entry the Gmail etch window will open, and you tin begin crafting a new email. Once you lot transport that email, you'll exist taken back to your domicile screen (no Gmail app open–it'southward magic).

Creating an app shortcut

If you idea that was efficient, let'southward accept information technology to the next level. Go ahead and open that App Action menu on Gmail once more than. This time, withal, instead of tapping Compose entry, tap and drag it to your home screen. You lot should now see a new launcher, labeled Compose, on your dwelling screen (Effigy B).

Figure B

If y'all tap that new app shortcut, the Gmail compose window will open up (without having to go through the App Deportment menu). Create equally many of these app shortcuts as y'all need on your domicile screen. You can then create a new folder that contains nothing merely app shortcuts, to keep your home screen from getting besides chaotic. That folder makes for an incredibly efficient ways to admission the various features of your installed apps.

Non every app includes App Actions. I suggest yous go through all of your apps to notice out which practice, so you lot can create a folder of app shortcuts to make your Android life equally efficient as possible. The last affair you need is to get bogged downwardly by opening various apps while you're on the go. With app shortcuts, you cutting a few steps out of your daily grind–steps that tin can add up throughout the day.