Hide an application from Android application list

Question

Is there any way to hide an application icon from Android applications list ? The application should be downloaded from Market and opened some GUI for configuring my application

Answer 1

I have found a way for this to work when you reinstall the app.

Add a broadcast receiver with intent filter action android.intent.action.PACKAGE_ADDED.

In the onReceived method you must activate your disabled component :

ComponentName componentToEnable = new ComponentName(context, Your_disabled_class.class);
PackageManager pm = context.getPackageManager();
pm.setComponentEnabledSetting(componentToEnable, PackageManager.COMPONENT_ENABLED_STATE_ENABLED,                           PackageManager.DONT_KILL_APP);

Complete AndroidManifest.xml for receiver: