android-launcher

I am working on my own home launcher replacement and it works fine but one thing bothers me. When I press a home key, current home activity (the one defined in manifest as main/defualt/launcher/home) restarts - current activity instance onpause is executed and oncreate is fired again, so new activity is brought up. On the other hand, ADW launcher and LauncherPRo does not behave like that - I do not a refresh like in my case. Launcher Pro even can do several actions: If you are on the main screen with app icons, it zooms out to see a snapshot of all screens, If you open a drawer and press Home,

Explanation: I have a working app in google play market. Everything works fine in android versions from 4.0-7.0. Case: When the client downloaded it on his Android 8.0 (Oreo) a launcher icon did not seem to show instead android's default launcher icon is showing!! Question: Anyone who has encountered such issue? I need any hints to solve it since it seems weird because I have all 4 typed .png icons in mipmap folder. Yes, I also faced the same issue in Android Oreo. 1) Add your images by adding in Image Vector This might not be the ideal solution. But deleting the directory named mipmap-anydpi

I'm in the process of trying to make a release build of my first android app to send to a few testers. However, I ran into a problem with it. When you exit the app and then re-enter it by launching it via its icon, it restarts the whole app instead of returning to it's previous location. This occurs even if you re-enter right after exiting. However, it does not happen if I hold the Home button and launch it through the recent apps list. I've searched online for others having this problem and there are a few, but no one has ever had a solid answer as to why it's happening to them. It's been

I want to pop up a dialog that lets the user choose a launcher to be launched with set as default option . I tried Intent home = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_DEFAULT); home.addCategory(Intent.CATEGORY_LAUNCHER); Intent chooser = Intent.createChooser(home, "Launcher"); context.startActivity(chooser); But the dialog popped by this does not have the option to set default. While the following code will not pop up the dialog if a default launcher is already set. Intent startMain = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_MAIN); startMain.addCategory(Intent.CATEGORY_HOME); startMain.setFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW