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Configure your Activity to be opened when the user taps home button with a long press action.
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gistfile1.xml
<activity android:name="AwesomeActivity">
<intent-filter>
<action android:name="android.intent.action.ASSIST"/>
<category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT"/>
</intent-filter>
<meta-data
android:name="com.android.systemui.action_assist_icon"
android:resource="@drawable/app_icon"/>
</activity>
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fi8er1 commented Sep 7, 2022

What's the usecase for this?

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The use case is if you want to create your own "assistant", like Gemini or Google Assistant. This allows your application to be configured as the default assistant so that it is opened when the user long presses the power button.

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