How can I emulate pressing another application's Quick Settings tile?
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I'd like to programatically press another application's Quick Settings Tile, e.g. from the shell or Tasker.
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In this particular case, I'd like to press ProtonVPN's tile in order to automate connecting and disconnecting.
After tearing apart the app, I found that I could reliably disconnect the VPN with:
`
su root -c am start-foreground-service -n com.protonvpn.android/org.strongswan.android.logic.CharonVpnService -a android.net.VpnService.DISCONNECT
`
I can sometimes connect with:
`
su root -c am start-foreground-service -n com.protonvpn.android/org.strongswan.android.logic.CharonVpnService -a android.net.VpnService
`
However, this is not very reliable as it's an internal mechanism that bypasses much of what the app does in the process of properly establishing a Quick Connect connection.
If there's an intent that will simulate what occurs when an app's tile is pressed, it should provide a much cleaner solution.
In this instance, the app has the service com.protonvpn.android.components.QuickTileService
and an intent action filter of android.service.quicksettings.action.QS_TILE
however I'm at a loss for where to go from there.
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Jul 7, 2019, 12:53 AM
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