android-launcher

Background Starting from API 25 of Android, apps can offer extra shortcuts in the launcher, by long clicking on them: The problem Thing is, all I've found is how your app can offer those shortcuts to the launcher, but I can't find out how the launcher gets the list of them. Since it's a rather new API, and most users and developers don't even use it, I can't find much information about it, especially because I want to search of the "other side" of the API usage. What I've tried I tried reading the docs ( here , for example). I don't see it being mentioned. Only the part of other apps is

My launcher icon currently starts the login activity. I've stored the logged in status in SharedPreferences. Is there any way to properly skip the login activity and go straight to the main activity without any UI glitches. All existing solutions involving finish() in onCreate() cause the login activity title to be briefly visible or some other brief blank screen UI glitch. Have a launcher acitivy with no UI that decides to open the MainActivity or the LoginActivity. You can declare no UI with: android:theme="@android:style/Theme.NoDisplay" Two other possible solutions: Just do it the other

I have made a simple punch in / punch out time clock application. I want to add the user the option of making a shortcut on the homescreen that will toggle the state of the app(time out / time in) but I don't want this shortcut to open up the app on the screen at all. here is my setupShortcut() private void setupShortcut() { Intent shortcutIntent = new Intent(this, Toggle.class); // shortcutIntent.setClassName(this, Toggle.class.getName()); shortcutIntent.putExtra(EXTRA_KEY, "ToggleShortcut"); shortcutIntent.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_TOP); Intent intent = new Intent(); intent

I'm developing an application that should add its shortcut to home screen after installation and remove it after the application is being uninstalled. The application will be preinstalled on the end user device, but still should have an option for uninstall). The task looks very simple but I've faced lots of troubles implementing it. What I have done: Add shortcut to the home screen using com.android.launcher.action.INSTALL_SHORTCUT on app first launch or on newt device reboot. MANUALLY remove shortcut using com.android.launcher.action.UNINSTALL_SHORTCUT. What I can't (and almost giving up):

I can launch my app by: Tapping on its icon in launcher Registering "visible" intent-filter (I mean - user clicks for example "Send with.." then chooses my app) Entering numeral code in dialer and "call" - "invisible" intent, user cannot choose app, he just enters code Are there any other ways to launch my app? (I'm mostly interested in something else like "invisible" intent from paragraph 3). Assume that we have clean device only with default system apps (most popular of Google apps are also counted as default) and my app Ways for usual users are preferred, but more difficult approaches will

I am trying to change the icon and label of my app once it is installed. In the manifest, i put this code : <application android:icon="@drawable/ic_launcher" android:label="@string/app_name" android:theme="@style/MyTheme" > // 1st Activity declaration <activity android:name=".activities.SplashScreenActivity" android:configChanges="orientation|keyboardHidden|screenSize" android:screenOrientation="portrait" android:theme="@style/Theme.Sherlock.NoActionBar" > <intent-filter> <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" /> // I removed the next line to put it with the alias : // <category