cylonid / cylonid/NativeAlphaForAndroid

Open site in NA with mini app instead of shortcut ?

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The app works very nicely - thank you!

However I'd like to use it on Android TV which doesn't use the shortcuts which Native Alpha creates. To run this sort of thing you need an app which will call the app you need. Then an appropriate ATV launcher/utility can run that app.

I see two possibilities for getting such an APK:
- Use Tasker or the like to activate the app programmatically (with an intent?) and then generate an APK from that
- Native Alpha generates an APK itself as an alternative to the shortcut. Apparently this may also be useful for other systems such as car head units.

An example of app generation can be found in [TvAppRepo](https://github.com/ITVlab/TvAppRepo) but that only runs an app or opens a URL (running the default browser) and here we need to run NA in a way which calls the appropriate function. I'm not sure whether an app tagged as for ATV will work on other platforms, but maybe if NA can detect what it's running on it could generate an appropriate app.

Is there any chance of adding a feature like this or at least documenting how we can call NA in a way which emulates the shortcut?

Thanks!

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