Its’getting complex for a switch…I can see why the current design was chosen, but I like your idea! 
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I’ve been using aliendalvik button for this. It worked quite well on Xperia X, on the X10 II it leaves a bit to be desired, but is still ok to stop android support. Starting isn’t that reliable, but can also be achieved by starting an android app.
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@PeperJohnny thank you for the idea! I was missing this icon too, I took it from my XperiaX as one more setting, the orientation bar which you can select between dynamic-portrait-landscape and I prefer it from the “lock orientation button”. Unfortunately on the tries I copied the file “/usr/share/jolla-settings/pages/android-runtime/android.qml” from my XperiaX to X 10 ii . Could you send it to me please? Thank you in advance
Hi @PeperJohnny, where do I have to place the files? I am quite new to Sailfish and the Qt universe. Thanks in advance 
If I understand the spec correctly you need to copy the .qml files to /usr/share/jolla-settings/pages/aliendalvik/
and the .json file to /usr/share/jolla-settings/entries/
You could also try to build the package yourself with the SDK tool Building packages - advanced techniques | Sailfish OS Documentation
Well, yes and no. We know starting AD takes time. Couldn’t this switch just show a waiting sign before the start of AD is being completed and then only turn to a started state?
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Another thing that makes me wonder (and tear my hair) why it’s not implemented after all these years…
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If you are still interesting on it and you are using patchmanager, you can try “Android Support button” patch from Catalog Web
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Didn’t work that well on my X10III. It gave me one more torch button instead of a android button. 
Edit:
Reboot made it happen the right way. Looks like it’s working fine now. Thanks!
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Thank you for the offer but I don’t use PatchManager and won’t in the near future as my phone is my main device and I can’t take the risk of adding fiddle software.
Why on earth is a dev. capable of puling it off and Jolla can’t. Is it just time?
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Nicely done @carmenfdezb - I don’t use patchmanager any more, to many problems for me personally. So instead, i added the files you provide for your patch and now I have a working stop-start button for Android runtime 
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It’s not a priority for what little resources Jolla apparently has.
Doing it together…we make it, jolla may follow, or…may not.
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It’s weird, I don’t understand why you get torch button, but it’s nice to hear that it’s working for you, thank you for the feedback.
In my case (I installed it in my devices: XA2 and 10 II) it worked fine and I didn’t reboot them.
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I understand you and I hope Jolla implement this feature soon, but I agree with @Edz, Jolla is a small company with limit resources and there are a lot of bugs to fix.
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Could you share the steps needed to add these files and make it work without PatchManager? That would surely help some users and I would definitely mark this feature request as Solved.
Before I give details to @Maximilian1st - can someone here confirm for me that stop-start-runtime.json is an ORIGINAL file found in /usr/share/jolla-settings/entries
Sounds daft, but often i do things on automatic pilot and don’t always recall what or how I did it.
I don’t have stop-start-runtime.json file in /usr/share/jolla-settings/entries/ .
android-support-button patch only modifies android-runtime.json file in /usr/share/jolla-settings/entries/ and add EnableSwitch.qml to /usr/share/jolla-settings/pages/android-runtime/.
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@Maximilian1st - apologies for delay. I’ve had no end of problems with Android Support since I fumbled through adding the shortcut. I lost Android Support a few days and could not get it back. After 3 days of messing around, I have it working again and have removed the elements associated with the top menu shortcut. As a result, I don’t think there is any value in me giving any instructions to the “balls up” I made of it, yet it worked at first…apologies for time wasting.
You are the only one who wasted some of your precious time trying this shortcut menu and I thank you for the effort.
I realised that I have a constant use of Android apps which was not the case at the time I wrote this question first. In the end it is getting harder to live outside the big ecosystems and that is a sad thing.
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