android: add shortcuts

[mahyarmirrashed]

Fixes tailscale/tailscale#16415

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[mahyarmirrashed]

@kari-ts Could I get your review on these changes? Thanks :)

[tobiasmcnulty]

Is it possible to hide or disable the shortcuts if "Force enabled connection toggle" ("Prevents the user from disconnecting Tailscale." is enabled via the MDM managed configuration? (Full disclosure: I'm not a Tailscale developer.)

[mahyarmirrashed]

@tobiasmcnulty Yes, I think so. However, you'd need to change it from static shortcuts (the way it is currently) to dynamic shortcuts. I haven't looked into it but it seems like it's just one library to do it: https://developer.android.com/develop/ui/views/launch/shortcuts/creating-shortcuts#dynamic
I can make it as a follow-up PR to this PR. I'd just like to get these changes merged first before putting more time to the second one.

[mahyarmirrashed]

@barnstar Could I get your review on this please?

[asborisov]

Any new about this one. I would love to have this functionality merged

[mahyarmirrashed]

Hi @sfllaw ! 👋 Hope you're having a good day!
Would you mind reviewing this PR, please? Thanks :)

[sfllaw]

@mahyarmirrashed, thanks for the PR! I’m not an Android developer, so I can’t give a good review. But I’ll see if I can get someone to look at it. I can’t guarantee any timelines, though, so thank you for your patience.

[MulverineX]

It'd be really nice if this was a Toggle shortcut instead of Enable/Disable

[kari-ts]

Thanks for submitting this, and apologies for the delay in looking at this. Here are a few thoughts:
-Agreed that this would be nice to have a toggle shortcut.
-Instead of creating two separate activities that broadcast to our receiver to enqueue to WorkManager, how about creating an activity as the shortcut entrypoint? We could keep IPNReceiver as the broadcast entrypoint and create a helper that enqueues the work?

[mahyarmirrashed]

I'm comfortable with whatever @kari-ts , just let me know what changes to make. Do you want to compress it to a single toggle?

[MulverineX]

Yeah they're asking you to do that, also do you understand kari's request on implementation detail?

[mahyarmirrashed]

Not entirely, it's been a few months since I touched this PR. From what I understand, is to create a helper that gets called instead of writing the code in the Activitiy class? There, we will take care of the toggle logic and enqueuing?