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Have you ever struggled to move a file like a song or a pdf file to the main screen of your Android phone (like a song you listen to quite often or a boarding pass) ? There's no easy way to do it in the Android system itself. ES explorer provided a way to do it until that app was blocked on Google play store. After a bit of a struggle, I found a way to do it and sharing so that it could help some of you.  Step 1: Install 'File Widget' from play store. After it's installed, there's not much you can do on the app.  Step 2: Open widgets (the way to do it differs from phone to phone but usually do a long press on the  home screen and select widgets.  Step 3: select File Widget and then locate the file you want to move to the desktop and press ok... It will create a shortcut to the file on your desktop.  Enjoy! 

 So my parents are retired (they live in India) and they need to submit a Jeevanpramaan / DLC (Digital Life Certificate) every year to the bank or the pension organization (EPFO). Till last year, they had to go to the JeevanPramaan office and stand in a queue which is not just difficult and painful for senior citizens but also risky considering we are in the middle of a Covid Pandemic.  Fortunately, now you can go to a CSC center and submit it online (and a new service has started where a post man could do that for a small amount). However, there is also a way to do it from home which makes it very easy, safe, and fast but it does require a hardware fingerprint / IRIS scanner to capture biometrics. This is where the challenge starts. These devices are not that cheap and the range is limited (Jeevanpraman Android app / Windows Software supports limited hardware drivers).  Step 1: Download the JeevanPramaanInstallerW installer file from the website (not easy to do this thou...