Android Shortcuts issue ... way to fix that so they don't need updateding all the time?

[Tristan Raghnall]

One of the beefs I've always had with Android (which is also present in Linux) is how dumb the shortcuts are.

In Windows, a shortcut take you to a file or folder. If the default app changes, the shortcut doesn't care. It goes to the file or folder within the shortcut with the new default. It doesn't require one to do up yet another shortcut for the gazillionth time when the app goes through an update. They remain forever static, which is absolutely great!

Is there a way, _please_, to work around this deficiency in Android? Can we create a shortcut to a file or folder that will live on through updates or even changes in the default app that opens any given shortcut?

Thank you for any help to this regard!

 

[Milo Williamson]

One of the beefs I've always had with Android (which is also present in Linux) is how dumb the shortcuts are.

In Windows, a shortcut take you to a file or folder. If the default app changes, the shortcut doesn't care. It goes to the file or folder within the shortcut with the new default. It doesn't require one to do up yet another shortcut for the gazillionth time when the app goes through an update. They remain forever static, which is absolutely great!

Is there a way, _please_, to work around this deficiency in Android? Can we create a shortcut to a file or folder that will live on through updates or even changes in the default app that opens any given shortcut?

Thank you for any help to this regard!

By pressing an app from the app drawer and put it on the home screen, easy.
Easy there. IT will stay on the same place as forever.

 

[ocnbrze]

what phone do you have? do you use a custom launcher? on my s25 ultra using the nova launcher, i can add a file onto my homescreen and have never had any issues especially after an update.

 

[Milo Williamson]

On my Smart launcher, I can easily pull up through new screen and it snaps it on, and I can rearrange the icons in the app drawer, I wonder what kind of cell prodcut you have op?