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From: Marion <marion@facts.com>
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Subject: Re: 'Direct Dial' icon - how?
Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2025 06:41:20 -0000 (UTC)
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On Fri, 25 Apr 2025 08:40:21 -0400, knuttle wrote :


> Is there any way to make the icon for the direct access to the contact 
> smaller?
> 
> My wife did it on her phone and while it takes her to the Contact entry. 
>   It is huge.  It would be nice if it were smaller like those on the 
> rest of the screen.

I never thought about it, but I think there "might" be a difference in how
icons sizing works between "widgets" & "shortcuts" (but I'm not sure).

I use the last known good version of the Nova free/adfree launcher myself.
 *Last known good version of Nova free/adfree launcher 7.0.57 by TeslaCoil*
 <https://tinyurl.com/nova-launcher>
Or, if you don't trust tinyurl's, then here are the direct links to it.
 <https://mobile.softpedia.com/apk/nova-launcher/7.0.57/>
 <https://filehippo.com/android/download_nova-launcher/7.0.57/>

When I tested (years ago) every free/adfree app launcher for Android, I
found that Nova (by TeslaCoil apps at that time) was, by far, the best.

With the Nova launcher, you can resize *all* shortcuts, but I don't think
that applies to widgets. For widgets, resizing (AFAIK) is app specific,
since a widget is really the app already running (kind of in background).

What we might be able to do is craft a one-tap shortcut to the phone number
if we can figure out the "Intent" syntax, which would be useful to billions
of people (since everyone needs a one-tap dial shortcut from time to time).

     "Hey Android, dial this phone number: tel:1.555.123.4567." 
          (Action: ACTION_DIAL, Data: tel:1.555.123.4567)

The critical piece we need to figure out is how to craft an "Intent" with
the "Action" of "Intent.ACTION_DIAL" and a specific "URI" to the desired
phone number of the format "tel:15551234567".

Maybe I'll test it out since BILLIONS of people could use that tutorial.
But it might take a while as it's not something in my already long todo.

Here's some quick pseudocode though... for what I think needs to be done.
 Create Intent
 Action: android.intent.action.DIAL
 Data URI: tel:15551234567
 Package: com.samsung.android.incallui 
          (or com.android.dialer or com.google.android.dialer)
 Class (Activity): com.android.dialer.DialtactsActivity
       (or com.google.android.dialer.extensions.GoogleDialtactsActivity)

The beauty of a one-tap shortcut is you can treat it like any other
shortcut. It can be in folders. It can have any icon you like.