android-launcher

I have an Launcher app installed. And user has choose another launcher as default, that means when pressing HOME the default launcher will come to front. I wanna supply user with an convenience of reseting default launcher. Such as a button clicking in my launcher's UI will make Launcher-Pick-Up popup window showing. Go Launcher can do that(in Go's setting view). it seems Go Launcher does something like "PackageManager.clearPackagePreferredActivities("com.android.launcher")" to clear the prefered launcher activity! how to achive that ? launcher can only clear its own prefered settings for

Background: I am trying to build a Launcher app that will restrict users to a set of permitted applications only and will not allow them to access device settings & anything other then the permitted apps. Why: This is a project for a private company to distribute devices to their employees with restricted usage. Issue: I am able to detect launch of other apps, but i am not able to overlay my activity on top of them. Below is the code, i am trying after receiving broadcast of not allowed app. private class BadAppReceiver extends BroadcastReceiver { @Override public void onReceive(Context arg0,

I am wondering how the Android Wear launchers like Swipify and Wear Mini Launcher intercept touch events on the android wear home screen . I have tried adding the onTouch and onClick listeners to the Watch View Stub in my app so far, but I can not figure out how to get touches that occur outside of my app. Nicolas POMEPUY In fact, the views are directly added in the WindowManager in a Service . You can take a look at this thread to understand how it works: Creating a system overlay window (always on top) Be careful, there is an issue in the Moto 360 system at this time as explained here: https

I've got an app that registers itself as the default launcher and pins itself automatically when started. This all works fine when installing the app. It pins itself and only the back button is visible. The problem is that when the device first boots up, it does not pin properly. I see a series of toasts "Screen pinned" and "Screen unpinned" multiple times. The "Home" and "Recent Tasks" buttons are still visible as well. -- Running "adb shell dumpsys activity activities" - the last lines indicate that it is not pinned: mLockTaskModeState=NONE mLockTaskPackages (userId:packages)= 0:[com.example

I wanted to get the list of all installed shortcuts in the homescreen launcher programmatically. I have found lots of snippets online but none of them provides the right output for this snippet: Intent shortcutsIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_CREATE_SHORTCUT); ArrayList<Intent> intentList = new ArrayList<Intent>(); Intent intent=null; String launchers=""; final PackageManager packageManager=getPackageManager(); for(final ResolveInfo resolveInfo:packageManager.queryIntentActivities(shortcutsIntent, 0)) { launchers=launchers+"\n"+resolveInfo.activityInfo.packageName; intent=packageManager