Is there anyway to make a widget or a shortcut on my home screen for an app that doesn’t actually offer widgets? For example with the Amazon Alexa app. I would like to put some thing on my home screen that controls a few Alexa devices. Do any of these third-party widget creator/maker apps support that or am I out luck?
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Widgets or shortcut?
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Not unless that app provides some sort of web service/website that provides the functionality you want.
Can’t be done. Try putting the small stock shortcuts app widget on your screen, if you have created or turned on any Alexa specific shortcuts.
It just seems odd that an app like Amazon Alexa which controls devices all over the house doesn’t have a widget or shortcut option to access those devices on your home screen. I guess Amazon doesn’t want to make it too easy for Apple so they keep selling their products.
Which I do, but I’d love to be able to control lights and things like the coffee maker without a verbal command as Well.
IFTTT has support for Alexa and should support widgets.
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But they have recently also moved to a subscription-based model.