有时，在Android 应用程序^{(Android app)}中，要获得特定的特性或功能^{(feature or function)}，例如，从myBuick 应用程序^{(myBuick app)}远程锁定我的汽车或访问 eBay 的“销售”部分^{(Selling section)}以检查我的拍卖情况，需要深入钻取几层才能到达所需的设置。

如果我们可以将这些功能（至少是您^(you)经常使用的功能）带到最前沿，通过它们自己的图标或快捷方式，在您的移动设备的主屏幕上^{(home screen)}访问，或者从指定的文件夹，其中包含其他难以使用的命令的快捷方式。

Android 版本 8^{(Android version 8)} ( Oreo )操作系统^{(operating system)}( OS) 来救援。与世界上部署最广泛的智能手机和平板电脑操作系统的大多数升级一样，2017 年的第 8 版^{(version 8)}加载了几个新的高度方便的生产力功能，许多应用程序随后更新以利用新功能。

在Oreo之前，应用程序被视为任何其他交互式代码字符串，为了获得特定功能，您启动应用程序，然后导航到所需的命令。例如，在Microsoft Outlook 应用程序^{(Microsoft Outlook app)}中，要启动新任务或日历事件^{(calendar event)}，您必须打开Outlook，导航到日历，然后触摸“新事件”图标^{(New Event icon)}以启动新事件表单。

但是，使用应用程序快捷方式^{(app shortcut)}，您可以直接从主屏幕跳转到 Outlook 新事件、^{(home screen)}新电子邮件^{(New Email)}或查看日历屏幕^{(View Calendar screen)}，省去了上图中显示的一些步骤。

也许一个更好的例子是我之前提到的关于从智能手机上的应用程序 myBuick 远程启动汽车的例子。要在 myBuick（通用汽车向其客户提供的漂亮小应用程序）中使用Start 功能^{(Start function)}，我必须启动该应用程序，转到Key Fob 部分^{(Key Fob section)}，然后按Start。

为了避免启动应用程序并导航^{(app and navigating)}到启动和停止引擎功能^{(Start and Stop engine functions)}所在的部分，我可以使用下面描述的过程，只需触摸从 myBuick 中提取然后放置在主屏幕上的^{(home screen)}启动图标^{(Start icon)}即可启动汽车，或桌面。

或者，如何设置一个快捷方式，直接将您带到您在 eBay 上的观察列表^{(Watched list)}，以便您可以查看您感兴趣的任何产品是否超出了您愿意为它们支付的价格。

当我们进入有关应用程序^(App)快捷方式的讨论时，请务必记住，并非所有应用程序都支持快捷方式，并且，根据您的Android版本和手机制造商^{(phone manufacturer)}，并非所有手机都支持相同的快捷方式，也不称它们为一样的东西。

例如，在其Galaxy^(Galaxy)设备的更高版本中，三星^(Samsung)已删除其小部件快捷方式功能，除其他外，该功能允许您创建快捷方式并将其应用于特定操作，例如设置^(Settings)。换句话说，例如，虽然您可以在Google（和其他一些Android）移动设备上创建用于修改屏幕亮度或音量等的快捷方式，但您不能使用三星智能手机或平板电脑^{(Samsung smartphone or tablet)}。

访问应用程序快捷方式^{(Accessing App Shortcuts )}

Oreo之后的所有Android版本都允许您在某些应用程序中提取或至少查找和执行^{(find and execute)}特定功能。但重要的是要注意，并非所有应用程序都具有可提取的特征，并且并非所有可提取的特征在每种情况或场景下^{(situation or scenario)}都是可提取的。

例如，在以下示例中，当我尝试从Amazon Music 播放器^{(Amazon Music player)}应用程序中提取快捷方式时，列表中的所有项目都显示为灰色或不可用。

无论如何，让我们找到一些有效^(do)的方法。

还记得您想要检查您的 eBay 观看项目的状态以了解这些列表的运行情况的场景吗？在这里，我们将为我们的拍卖创建一个快捷方式，以检查并了解他们的表现如何。有两种方法可以做到这一点。

您可以简单地访问应用程序内的快捷方式，根据需要不断访问它，或者您可以完全提取快捷方式并将图标快捷方式^{(icon shortcut)}放置在您的主屏幕上^{(home screen)}。您的主屏幕^{(home screen)}布局和您的工作方式应该可以帮助您确定要走的路。我想说，如果您需要在应用程序中重复访问多个功能，请使用第二种方法。

我们先做第一个。（注意：如果您在任何时候收到有关屏幕被锁定的警告，请选择解锁选项^{(Unlock option)}。）

1. 找到您的eBay 应用程序^(app)图标
2. 将手指放在图标上并保持不动，直到弹出菜单^{(flyout menu)}显示。

• 选择销售^(Selling)

eBay 应用程序^{(eBay app)}打开到“销售”屏幕^{(Selling screen)}，其中显示了您的每个单独的拍卖，以及您有多少活跃的拍卖、您在预先指定的时期内售出的物品数量以及其他一些相关统计数据。

将快捷方式提取到您的桌面^{(Extracting Shortcuts to Your Desktop)}

上面的方法，从应用程序的弹出窗口执行快捷方式，可能看起来足够快速和高效，但您可以通过将所需的快捷方式直接提取到桌面来加快处理速度，如下所示。

1. 找到您的eBay 应用程序^{(eBay app)}图标
2. 将手指放在图标上并按住它，直到 弹出菜单^{(flyout menu)}显示。
3. 选择并按住Selling直到 eBay 图标消失，并且Selling 按钮^{(Selling button)}与浮出控件分离。
4. 将^(Drag)“销售”按钮^{(Selling button)}拖到桌面上的空白区域，或完全拖到另一个主屏幕^{(home screen)}并将其放在那里。

您现在有一个图标，当您点击它时，它会直接启动到您的eBay 应用程序的“^{(eBay app)}销售”部分^{(Selling section)}，显示关键数据，而无需您浏览应用程序。（你可以把它放在你想要的任何屏幕上。我把它放在这里只是为了方便查看。）

创建快捷方式组^{(Creating Groups of Shortcuts)}

记得^(Remember)早些时候我们讨论过从单个应用程序中提取多个快捷方式并将它们分组到一个文件夹中。以myBuick 应用^{(myBuick app)}为例；它包含很多节和小节以及命令和子命令，执行单个命令通常需要大约五六个步骤。

在我的召唤电话中，我最常在同一个地方一起使用三个命令Lock、Start和Unlock将是有益的。

让我们创建一个包含几个省时快捷方式的文件夹。（您可能没有 myBuick 或其他汽车应用程序^{(automobile app)}；如果有，请使用它来跟进。如果没有，请使用 eBay 或其他具有多个可用命令的应用程序。）

1. 找到myBuick应用程序图标并按住它，直到弹出菜单^{(flyout menu)}显示。
2. 选择并按住“开始^{(Start )}”，直到 eBay 图标消失并且“开始”按钮^{(Start button)}随手指移动
3. 将开始^{(Start )}拖动到主屏幕上的空白处，然后将其放在那里。
4. 返回myBuick图标，点击并按住它，直到弹出菜单^{(flyout menu)}显示，然后选择并按住解锁。^(Unlock.)
5. myBuick 消失后，将​​Unlock拖动到您离开Start的主屏幕并将其放在Start顶部。

这两个图标会自动合并到一个文件夹中。

• 重复上述步骤，将Lock放入文件夹
• 将文件夹^{(folder anything)}重命名为您想要的任何名称。我把我的别克^(Buick)改名了。

现在，我唯一需要打开 myBuick 的时候是需要访问我不常使用的功能时。您的应用程序抽屉^{(App drawer)}中有多少应用程序（或您将节省多少时间）将从提取快捷方式中受益？

Extracting Features from Android Apps for Faster Access

Sometimes, getting to а specific feature or function, sυch as, say, locking my car remotely from the myBuick app or getting to the Selling section on eBay to check my auctions, in an Android aрp entails drilling down sevеral layers deеp to get to the deѕired setting.

Wouldn’t it be so much more easier if we could bring these features, at least the ones that you use frequently, to the forefront, accessed through their own icon, or shortcut, on your mobile device’s home screen, or perhaps from a designated folder containing shortcuts to otherwise hard-to-get-to commands.

The Android version 8 (Oreo) operating system (OS) comes to the rescue. Like most upgrades to the World’s most widely deployed smartphone and tablet OS, 2017’s version 8 came loaded with several new highly convenient productivity features, as did many of the apps subsequently updated to take advantage of the new capabilities.

Prior to Oreo, apps were treated like any other interactive strings of code, in that to get to a specific function, you launch the app and then navigate to the desired command. In the Microsoft Outlook app, for example, to start a new task, or calendar event, you must open Outlook, navigate to the calendar, and then touch the New Event icon to launch the new event form.

With an app shortcut, however, you can jump to the Outlook New Event, New Email, or View Calendar screen directly from your home screen, eliminating a few of the steps shown in the image above.

Perhaps a better example is the one I mentioned earlier about starting my car remotely from an app on my smartphone, myBuick. To get to the Start function in myBuick, the nifty little app that GM provides to its customers, I must start the app, go to the Key Fob section, and then press Start.

To avoid launching the app and navigating to the section where the Start and Stop engine functions are located, I can, using the procedure described below, start the car by simply touching the Start icon I extracted from myBuick and then placed on my home screen, or desktop.

Or, how about setting up a shortcut that takes you directly to your Watched list on eBay, so that you can see if any of the products you’re interested in have gone beyond what you’re willing to pay for them.

As we enter this discussion of App shortcuts, it’s important that you keep in mind that not all apps support shortcuts, and, depending on your version of Android and the phone manufacturer, not all phones support the same shortcuts, nor do they call them the same things.

On later versions of its Galaxy devices, for example, Samsung has removed its widget shortcuts feature that, among other things, allowed you to create and apply shortcuts to specific actions, such as, say, Settings. In other words, while you can, for example, create shortcuts for modifying screen brightness or audio volume and so on on your Google (and a few other Android) mobile devices, you cannot with a Samsung smartphone or tablet.

Accessing App Shortcuts

All versions of Android after Oreo allow you to extract, or at least find and execute, specific functions within certain apps. But it’s important to note that not all apps have extractable features, and not all extractable features are extractable in every situation or scenario.

When, in the following example, I try to extract shortcuts from the Amazon Music player app, for instance, all the items in the list are grayed out, or unavailable.

In any case, let’s find some that do work.

Remember the scenario where you want to check the status of your eBay watched items to see how well those listings are faring? Here, we’ll create a shortcut to our auctions, to check on and see how well they’re faring. There are two ways to do this.

You can simply access the shortcut inside the app, continuously accessing it as needed, or you can extract the shortcut altogether and place an icon shortcut on one of your home screens. Your home screen layouts and how you work should help you determine which way to go. I’d say, if you need to access more than one function within an app repetitively, go with the second method.

Let’s do the first one first. (Note: If at any time you get a warning about the screen being locked, choose the Unlock option.)

1. Find your eBay app icon
2. Place your finger on the icon and hold it there until the flyout menu displays.

• Select Selling

The eBay app opens to the Selling screen where each of your individual auctions are displayed, along with tallies of how many active auctions you have, how many items you’ve sold over a prespecified period, and several other pertinent stats.

Extracting Shortcuts to Your Desktop

The method above, executing the shortcut from the app’s flyout, may seem fast and efficient enough, but you can speed up process even more by extracting the desired shortcut directly to the desktop, as shown here.

1. Find your eBay app icon
2. Place your finger on the icon and hold it until the flyout menu displays.
3. Select and hold Selling until the eBay icon disappears, and the Selling button separates from the flyout.
4. Drag the Selling button to a blank space on the desktop, or to another home screen entirely and drop it there.

You now have an icon that, when you tap it, launches directly into the Selling section of your eBay app, displaying critical data without your having to wade through the app. (You can place it on any screen you want. I put it here just to make it easy to see.)

Creating Groups of Shortcuts

Remember early on that we talked about extracting multiple shortcuts from a single app and grouping them in one folder. Take the myBuick app, for example; it contains a lot of sections and subsections and commands and subcommands, and often takes about five or six steps to execute a single command.

It would be beneficial to have the three commands, Lock, Start, and Unlock, that I use most often together in the same spot, at my beckoning call.

Let’s create a folder containing several time-saving shortcuts. (You probably don’t have a myBuick or another automobile app; if you do, please use it to follow along. If you don’t, use eBay or another app with several commands available.)

1. Locate the myBuick app icon and hold it until the flyout menu displays.
2. Select and hold Start until the eBay icon disappears and the Start button moves around with your finger
3. Drag Start to a blank space on a home screen and drop it there.
4. Return to the myBuick icon, tap and hold it until the flyout menu displays, and then select and hold Unlock.
5. After myBuick disappears, drag Unlock to the home screen where you left Start and drop it on top of Start.

The two icons automatically combine into one folder.

• Repeat the above steps to get Lock into the folder
• Rename the folder anything you want. I renamed mine Buick.

Now, the only time I have to open myBuick is when I need to access a feature that I use less frequently. How many apps in your App drawer (or how much time would you save) would benefit from having shortcuts extracted?

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