homescreen

How is it possible to add Views/Images to my homescreen? The best example is the facebook messenger: If you long-click at a chat item, you can choose "pop out cheat head", then you have a small button overlaying your screen. There are also apps like screen-breakers, an image from a broken display overlays everything from the phone. I've searched for it, but I have no idea what it is called. I hope you guys are able to understand my english. Answer is SYSTEM_ALERT_WINDOW, this give you capability to draw over any thing in android, same feature facebook is using for drawing its chat heads. http:

hi Its been 2 days looking for this simple problem. I want to launch Android own launcher from my application EVEN if its not set as default. final PackageManager packageManager=getPackageManager(); Intent intent = packageManager.getLaunchIntentForPackage("com.android.launcher"); this return null for Android own launcher but if I try custom launcher is give me successfully Found the solution, after investigating source code of getLaunchIntentForPackage . As per documentation, The current implementation will look first for a main activity in the category CATEGORY_INFO, next for a main activity

I saw the Bug Me iPhone app and was intrigued by the ability to add icons to the home screen. I figured it would work similar to the way that Safari achieves it. There as a similar question here that said it was not possible: Implementing "Add to Home Screen", ala Safari Clearly there is a way and I am not looking in the right places. Has anyone else worked it out yet? You have to use Safari. BugMe saves the note on home screen by: Upload the note to their server. Launch Safari by -openURL: with a URL to their server. In Safari, the user is instructed to press the "+" key to add a special

I've run into a problem where I add a web app to my iPad home screen (iOS 5.0.1 iPad 2), and when I open it it appears to be caching something behind the scenes, independent of Safari. I've cleared out everything from Safari that's available in Settings (Clear History and Clear Cookies & Data), and when I navigate to the web app with Safari I see the app in its current state. However if I open the home screen bookmark I get the app in a pre-changed state. I've seen a lot of information about using a cache.manifest to cache resources for offline use, but I'm not sure if that's relevant to this

I am new to android development. I know that every homescreen is a Workspace in Launcher. I want to get all the position info of all application icons on the screen, so is there any way to get a list of these screen objects and their icon info? ADD: What I expect more is the relationships between app icon and screen. For example, I want the position info of a certain app icon, including which screen it appears on(that is the index of the screen list). Rohit Goswami first create a bean to store app info like this public class Bean { String appName; String packName; Drawable icon; Date

Is there a way in Calabash Android where I can send my app to the background? In other words, simulate the device/hardware Home button? Secondly, can the app be brought back into the foreground? This can be done in the following way: Then /^I go home$/ do system "#{default_device.adb_command} shell input keyevent KEYCODE_HOME" end P.S. You can also add sleep <some_value_in_seconds> if necessary, after system "..." line. As far as I know, that action does not currently exist. You can find (mostly) all of the available operations here https://github.com/calabash/calabash-android/tree/master/ruby