[potatotips #92]Integrating Quick Settings Tiles into Your Android App

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1. 2025.07.23 Kenichi Kambara (@korodroid) potatotips #92 Integrating Quick Settings Tiles into Your Android App
2. About me •Mobile App Development •Speeches (e.g. 22 Int’l/100+ Domestic) •Writings (e.g. 10 Dev Books) •[Of fi cial] Evangelist at NTT TechnoCross •[Private] iplatform.org ਆݪ ݈Ұ (X:@korodroid) NEW
3. About my product (Personal projects) (Jetpack Compose / Tile)
4. 1. What Are Quick Settings Tiles? •Tiles shown in the Android quick settings panel •Added manually by the user •Requires Android 7.0 (API 24)+  https://developer.android.com/develop/ui/views/quicksettings-tiles
5. 2. Why Quick Settings Tiles? •Offer fast access to key app features •Improve user experience with one-tap actions •Great for power tools, toggles, shortcuts 
6. 3. How It Works: Architecture [Quick Settings Tile] ↓ [TileService] ↓ [Custom Action or UI Launch] 
7. 4. How to Implement 1.Create a class extending TileService 2.Override onClick() and onStartListening() 3.Declare it in AndroidManifest.xml 4.(Optional) Open a Compose screen from the Tile 
8. 5. TileService: Lifecycle Callbacks  Function Name When It's Called Notes onTileAdded() When the user adds the tile to Quick Settings for the fi rst time Called only once when the tile is fi rst added onStartListening() When the tile becomes visible and can be updated by the app Called each time the tile is shown (e.g., when Quick Settings panel is opened) onStopListening() When the tile is no longer visible and can't be updated Called when the tile is temporarily hidden (not removed) onClick() When the user taps the tile (active or inactive state) Should update the tile’s state via updateTile() after changes onTileRemoved() When the user removes the tile from Quick Settings Will not be called again until the tile is added again
9. 5. Implementation: TileService  class MyTileService : TileService() { override fun onClick() { val intent = Intent(this, QuickSettingsScreenActivity::class.java).apply { fl ags = Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK } startActivityAndCollapse(intent) } } •TileService: used to create a custom Quick Settings tile. •qsTile: a property of TileService used to customize the tile’s label, icon, and state.
10. 6. What UI Can You Control in a Tile? 
11. 7. Manifest Declaration  class MyTileService : TileService() { override fun onClick() { val intent = Intent(this, QuickSettingsScreenActivity::class.java).apply { fl ags = Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK } startActivityAndCollapse(intent) } }
12. Key Takeaways •Quick Settings Tiles are powerful entry points •Users must add tiles manually •Implementing with TileService is easy and clean 
13. Please let me know if you have any requests such as technical speeches, technical writings and so on. Facebook:http://fb.com/kanbara.kenichi X:@korodroid LinkedIn:http://www.linkedin.com/in/korodroid Thank you so much