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Activity Launcher

by Adam Szalkowski · ISC · open source

Open the screens apps don’t show you: hidden settings pages and other activities, launched directly or pinned to your home screen as shortcuts.

Needs:No root · Android 4.1+

No known trackers in the code Signer matches F-Droid’s record

2113 Apps is independent, not affiliated with or endorsed by Adam Szalkowski. Official sources: source code on GitHub.

Download APK · 3.4 MB v2.4.1 · checked
Version
2.4.1
Size
3.4 MB
Requires
Android 4.1+
Updated
2026-07-19

Introduction

Every Android screen is an activity, and many apps contain activities they never show in their menus: extra settings pages, test screens, shortcuts into the middle of an app. Activity Launcher lists the activities of your installed apps, opens them directly and turns them into home screen shortcuts.

What it does

  • Browse installed apps and launch any exported activity.
  • Create home screen shortcuts to activities.
  • Version 2.4.1 added a plugin system for launching and creating shortcuts, a Quick Settings tile for your favourites, and sharing shortcuts as a link.

It doesn’t use root. Activities that apps keep private can’t be opened this way; for those, the project offers a separate Shizuku-based plugin.

A word of caution

The app says it at first launch: it gives access to features not normally visible to users, and some of them may not work as expected or may not be safe to use. Settings screens that a phone maker hid can change things you can’t easily undo.

About this file

  • Activity Launcher comes in three versions: a free one with ads on Google Play, a paid Pro version, and an open-source version without ads or analytics. This is F-Droid’s build of the open-source version, with Google’s services, Firebase and the ad libraries stripped out.
  • It is signed with F-Droid’s key, so it won’t update a copy from Google Play.
  • The 3.4 MB file has no native code and declares five permissions.

Written by 2113, last reviewed . Sources: source code, F-Droid listing.

What’s inside the APK

Trackers

None found

No code matching the Exodus Privacy tracker signatures.

Native code

None

Pure Java/Kotlin, so it runs on any CPU.

Android versions

Android 4.1 and up

Built for Android 17 (target API 37).

Permissions

5

0 of them need your approval first.

Granted at install (1)

Low-risk permissions Android grants automatically, plus any we have not classified.

  • QUERY_ALL_PACKAGES
Defined by other apps (4)

Permissions that belong to another app or to this app itself.

  • com.android.launcher.permission.INSTALL_SHORTCUT
  • de.szalkowski.activitylauncher.DYNAMIC_RECEIVER_NOT_EXPORTED_PERMISSION
  • de.szalkowski.activitylauncher.permission.CREATE_SHORTCUT
  • de.szalkowski.activitylauncher.permission.LAUNCH_ACTIVITY

More Information

Package name
de.szalkowski.activitylauncher
Version
2.4.1 (build 20406)
File size
3.4 MB (3,401,777 bytes)
Requires
Android 4.1 or later
Category
System Tools
License
ISC
Developer
Adam Szalkowski
Released
Jul 10, 2026
Signed by
F-Droid, which built this APK from the published source code. Because the key is F-Droid’s, it won’t install over a copy from Google Play or GitHub (or the other way round) without uninstalling first.
Signer SHA-256
2015709d519fd686b1e37b334f12082cbafcb9f5126a68a25b172043ebb581de
File SHA-256
d8ab42f6ab5943b380d96dd430e377d49bdc816ac792429ed0ca66768c41b153
Checked
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Common questions

Is this APK the official Activity Launcher release?

It is F-Droid’s build rather than the developer’s own: F-Droid compiled Activity Launcher 2.4.1 from the published source code and signed it with its own key. Its SHA-256 matches F-Droid’s signed index. Because the key is F-Droid’s, it won’t install over a copy from Google Play or GitHub without uninstalling first.

What Android version does Activity Launcher need?

Android 4.1 or later (API level 16). Version 2.4.1 is built for Android 17 (target API 37). Pure Java/Kotlin, so it runs on any CPU.

Can Activity Launcher access the internet?

No. The APK doesn’t request Android’s internet permission, so the app can’t go online by itself. In total it declares 5 permissions, and none of them needs your approval first.

Does Activity Launcher contain trackers?

No known trackers: our scan of version 2.4.1 found no code matching the Exodus Privacy tracker signatures. The scan covers known tracker libraries; it doesn’t show what data the app itself sends.

Is Activity Launcher open source?

Yes. Activity Launcher is released under the ISC licence, and its source code is published at https://github.com/butzist/ActivityLauncher.

Recent releases

Version Released Size Requires
v2.5.0-dev (beta) Jul 19, 2026 3.6 MB Android 4.1+
v2.4.1 · this download Jul 10, 2026 3.4 MB Android 4.1+
v2.4.0 Jul 5, 2026 3.4 MB Android 4.1+

Versions currently kept in the F-Droid repository. We host and check only the newest stable one.

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