activating wifi hotspot from widget on FroYo

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Hi,

Just updated to FroYo mainly for the tether option. It works great and I can just surf while the phone is in my pocket / bag.

what I miss is a faster way to activate it.

I didn't see an option to have shortcut to the home screen (via - shortcuts - settings) and I can't find a widget that will allow it.

Any ideas?

Thanks
Ilan

I too would like to know this

Here's something close, it's not exactly what you want (it's a program that just opens Menu | Settings | Wireless | Tethering & Portable hotspot and then exits).

It took more time to for me to write this post (and figure out how to insert a link!) than for me to code it:

jmdsdf.yi.org/share/TetherSettings.apk

Any chance you can make the "t" in tether that shows on the icon label a capital "T"? Sorry i'm a bit OCD so it kind of drives me crazy but I really appreciate the quick access to the tether settings comes in quite handy!

Thanks

You could achieve the same thing with better/any cut, sans the exit at the end.

works great. I want to learn how to do that.

Re: activating wifi hotspot from widget on FroYo

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Wow great that was exactly what I was looking for.

Thanks, I wish I could program as easely as I'm posting questions :) because I'm very good in aking :P

Ilany

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Here's the code:

public class tethersettings extends Activity {
@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.main);

// load tether setting dialog
Intent intent = new Intent();
intent.setAction(Intent.ACTION_MAIN);
ComponentName com = new ComponentName("com.android.settings", "com.android.settings.TetherSettings");
intent.setComponent(com);
startActivity(intent);

// exit
finish();
// kill process
android.os.Process.killProcess(android.os.Process. myPid());

}
}

Updated with capitalization:

jmdsdf.yi.org/share/TetherSettings.apk

Three other apps with a similar idea (for changing APNs, data settings and wifi settings):

jmdsdf.yi.org/share/ApnSettings.apk
jmdsdf.yi.org/share/DataSettings.apk
jmdsdf.yi.org/share/WifiSettings.apk

Re: activating wifi hotspot from widget on FroYo

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Now that we have the activity name, cant we just create a shortcut with anycut?