App Activate allows you to control applications by making simple gestures on the icons

  Activate App is a tweak very interesting launched during this morning in Cydia, allowing iDevice owners to take various actions in applications interacting only with their icons. More precisely, using the Activator and predefined gestures, the tweak allows us to start/stop the music from the Music application by two taps on the icon, it allows us to open the interface for sending an email/SMS/iMessage using the same gestures, based the same gesture activates the Apple Maps direction function through Siri and the list can go on.

  Activate App it works on its own to interact with the various applications in iDevices, but by installing the Ask Assist tweak you give it the opportunity to send commands directly to Crab using double taps. Below you have the entire list of orders, App Activate being available for free in the repo BigBoss al Cydia.

Assign activator actions to double tapping an apps icon.

Possible applications of App Activate include:

  • Double tap the Music icon to play or pause music.
  • Double tap the Mail icon to write an email.
  • Double tap the Messages icon to write a text.
  • Double tap the Facebook icon to compose a Facebook post.
  • Double tap the Twitter icon to compose a Tweet.
  • Double tap the Settings icon to launch SBSettings.

When used with Ask Assistant App Activate can be used to:

  • Double tap the Maps icon to ask Siri to take you home.
  • Double tap the Phone icon to ask Siri to phone a favorite contact.
  • Double tap the Weather icon to ask Siri what the weather forecast is.
  • Double tap the Calendar icon to ask Siri what appointments you have today.
  • Double tap the Messages icon to ask Siri to write a message to a favorite contact