Android :: Launcher Label Vs Activity Title

Aug 15, 2010

I want to give my application launcher icon (the one that is displayed on the startscreen!) a different, shorter caption. It seems the launcher takes its label from the mainfest section about the main activity's label, as here:

<activity android:name="MainActivity" android:label="@string/app_short_name">
<intent-filter>
<action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />
<category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
</intent-filter>

I already changed the original reference to my app's name @string/app_name to a different, shorter string resource here. BUT - big BUT: this also of course changes this activity's default title! And I did not want that to happen, there's enough space for a long application name! Setting the long title again in onCreate using the setTitle(int) method does no good either, because the short name will be visible to the user for a short time, but long enough to notice!

And - please don't answer my question by refering to a custom titlebar... I do not want to go that long way, just because of a stupid string title! It's a pain to draw a custom title bar for so little effect! Is there no easy way to just give the launcher a different string to display?

Android :: Launcher label vs activity title


Android :: Custom Title Bar Not Work With Label From Manifest

Oct 12, 2010

I have a custom title bar that I would like to apply to all my activities. I have searched online and found a few ways of doing that however I have ran into a problem. It seems that despite the fact I have a TextView in my titlebar with id @android:/title, Android will not use the value defined in the manifest in android:label for each activity.

I tried also calling setTitle(R.string.myTitle) but it still will not render it! If I manually put some text in my TextView in the xml it shows up fine. How can I have a custom title bar that is linked and makes Android use my manifest values for labels? I do not want to lose the setTitle() or the XML attributes functionality.

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Jul 14, 2010

When we create a new activity, in the Android.manifest file, we can set some text for the activity's label. It looks like:

<activity class="MyActivity" android:label="Some text here!">

Is there anyway to access that programatically and change it during runtime? Regards Dileep

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i am using

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Nov 13, 2010

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Android :: Remove Title Bar In Activity?

Nov 25, 2009

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Mar 5, 2010

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Feb 27, 2009

i have attached a pic which shows an activity with a blue color pic and some text as the title in the activitty....The same kind of UI is needed for my application which is applied to all the activities (about 6-8 activities) as the title... Kindly suggest how to start off as i need to give a nice jazz-up for my application...

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Aug 18, 2010

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I have a custom title bar that I would like to apply to all my activities. I have searched online and found a few ways of doing that however I have ran into a problem. It seems that despite the fact I have a TextView in my titlebar with id @android:id/title, Android will not use the value defined in the manifest in android:label for each activity. I tried also calling setTitle(R.string.myTitle) but it still will not render it! If I manually put some text in my TextView in the xml it shows up fine. How can I have a custom title bar that is linked and makes Android use my manifest values for labels? I do not want to lose the setTitle() or the XML attributes functionality.

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Android :: Possible To Display Title Progressbar In Custom Title?

May 23, 2009

I am using a custom title view and would like to show/hide a progressbar in the title view when a thread is working.But there is no change to the progress bar. It is never displayed. Can someone please tell me what is wrong with the code?Is it possible to display the title progressbar in a custom title?

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Android :: Custom Title Not Filling Whole Title Bar

Jun 9, 2009

I'm setting up an app to use a custom title so I can get the proper logo into the title instead of just text, and to make it clean (since the logo has a flat black background), I also want the whole title bar to be black. My xml for the title is a framelayout to hold the logo inside of a linearlayout to change the background color, and I'm setting the title in OnCreate() as follows:

CODE:.........................

With this setup, the old gray from the old title bar still exists around the edge of my custom title. Appears to be on the order of 3-4 px on the bottom and 8-10 px on each side. Any ideas about how to get the black background to cover the entire area?

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Android : Is It Possible To Have Two Launcher Activity In A Single Apk?

Feb 3, 2009

I need to have 2 launcher activities (i.e. 2 icons on the home screen). Each launch icon would launch a separate activity. Essentially, I need a single apk which contains a suite of 2 apps which I don't want to distribute separately. Is this possible?

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Android :: Why Activity Icon Is Not Removed From Launcher?

Nov 11, 2009

I'm trying to remove activity icon from launcher panel. I'm using firmware 1.5. But nothing seems to work. I'm not receiving any error but activity icon is not removed.

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Oct 17, 2010

I have a widget with a configuration activity.

Currently the configuration launches when you click on the widget.

I want to add the configuration as an app icon to the launcher.

The problem is that when the configuration launches on click, I get a specific widget id , so each widget instance can have a different configuration.

What will happen if I start the activity from the launcher?

I wont be able to show multiple configurations on the same activity.

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Android :: How To Debug Launcher Activity In Eclipse

Apr 16, 2009

I am trying to following this documentation 'http://source.android.com/using-eclipse' to debug android Launcher Activity in eclipse.

It said' You may need to open the Debug perspective (next to the "Java" perspective icon in the upper-right, click the small "Open Perspective" icon and select "Debug"). Once you do, you should see a list of threads; if you select one and break it (by clicking the "pause" icon), it should show the stack trace, source file, and line where execution is at. Breakpoints and whatnot should all work.

My question is which threads I need to select in order to debug Launcher Activity? I don't see a thread name Launcher.

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Android :: How To Make Launcher Open Main Activity?

May 26, 2010

I have activities A and B. The A is the one with LAUNCHER intent-filter (i.e. the activity that is started when we click the app icon on home screen). A launches B using start Activity(new Intent(A.this, B.class)). When the user has the B activity open, and then put my application into the background, and later my application's process is killed, when the user starts my application again, B is opened instead of A. This caused a force close in my app, because A is the activity that initializes the resources my app needs, and when B tried to access the uninitialized resources, B crashes.

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Android :: Stop Launcher Activity From Starting Application

Sep 15, 2010

I have a enable and disable button. When this button is enable, user can launch my application normally. But when the button is in disable state, I don't want to start the application, that is the launcher activity should not start, but the icon for application will be there.When we click on the icon for application to launch it should not start.

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Android : How To Allow User To Remove An Activity Form Launcher?

Nov 22, 2009

I am creating an alternative keyboard. In order to help users understand how to set up the IME after it is installed I have added a simple Main Activity that appears in the Application Launcher with set up and usage instructions. I also have a preferences Activity and I want the user to have an option to hide or show the setup instructions Activity if they don't want to see it any more. My question is how best I can do this? I am assuming if it is possible it would require overriding the IntentFilter for the setup instruction Activity. I have experimented with this and read through the Intents and IntentFilter documentation but I can't see how to do this.

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Android : By Clicking On My App's Launcher Icon, Bring My App To Foreground And Not Launch New Activity

Feb 28, 2010

My app has 2 activities - A and B. From homescreen I launch A, from A I launch B. The activity stack looks like this: A-B. Now I press HOME button, and from homescreen click again on my app icon, which launches A and adds it on top of the activity stack, which now looks like this: A-B-A. But I just want to bring my application to foreground, is that possible in Android?

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Android :: Android - SMS Broadcast Receiver / No Launcher Activity Found

Nov 7, 2010

I have been trying to get this program to work but so far having no luck. I cannot find where I am doing wrong. I'm not sure if there's something wrong with the code, or debugging.

Here is my program:
package Technicaljar.SMSBroadcastReceiver;
import android.content.BroadcastReceiver;
import android.content.Context;
import android.content.Intent;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.telephony.SmsMessage;
import android.util.Log;

public class SMSBroadcastReceiver extends BroadcastReceiver {
private static final String SMS_RECEIVED = "android.provider.Telephony.SMS_RECEIVED";
private static final String TAG = "SMSBroadcastReceiver";
@Override
public void onReceive(Context context, Intent intent) {
Log.i(TAG, "Intent received: " + intent.getAction());
if (intent.getAction() == SMS_RECEIVED) {
Bundle bundle = intent.getExtras();
if (bundle != null) {
Object[] pdus = (Object[])bundle.get("pdus");
final SmsMessage[] messages = new SmsMessage[pdus.length];
for (int i = 0; i < pdus.length; i++) {
messages[i] = SmsMessage.createFromPdu((byte[])pdus[i]);
} if (messages.length > -1) {
Log.i(TAG, "Message recieved: " + messages[0].getMessageBody());
} } } } }

And the manifest file:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
package="Technicaljar.SMSBroadcastReceiver"
android:versionCode="1"
android:versionName="1.0">
<application android:icon="@drawable/icon" android:label="@string/app_name" android:debuggable="true" >
<receiver android:name=".SMSBroadcastReceiver">
<intent-filter>
<action android:name="android.provider.telephony.SMS_RECEIVED"></action>
</intent-filter>
</receiver>
</application>
<uses-sdk android:minSdkVersion="7" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET">
</uses-permission>
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.RECEIVE_SMS">
</uses-permission>
</manifest>

I am sending SMS through Telnet, and I cannot see any Intent received messages in the logcat. Here is my logcat from the time of installation.

D/AndroidRuntime( 478):
D/AndroidRuntime( 478): >>>>>>>>>>>>>> AndroidRuntime START <<<<<<<<<<<<<<
D/AndroidRuntime( 478): CheckJNI is ON
D/AndroidRuntime( 478): --- registering native functions ---
D/AndroidRuntime( 478): Shutting down VM
D/dalvikvm( 478): Debugger has detached; object registry had 1 entries
I/AndroidRuntime( 478): NOTE: attach of thread 'Binder Thread #3' failed
D/Mms:app ( 220): getSmsNewMessageNotificationInfo: count=14, first addr=12345, thread_id=4
D/dalvikvm( 151): GC_EXPLICIT freed 391 objects / 22552 bytes in 65ms
D/dalvikvm( 220): GC_EXPLICIT freed 926 objects / 44840 bytes in 73ms

So the SMS seems to be received by the emulator, but looks like the no intents are firing.
What am I doing wrong here? After installing, do I have to somehow 'start' this receiver?
Because when I install, I get

[2010-11-07 21:24:41 - SMSBroadcastReceiver] No Launcher activity found!
[2010-11-07 21:24:41 - SMSBroadcastReceiver] The launch will only sync the application package on the device!

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Apr 6, 2009

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Android :: How To Get App Label In Different Languages?

Mar 6, 2010

Is there a way to get the application label in different languages according to locale? For example, I can get the application label "Settings" of package com.android.settings in English, "Ajustes" in Spanish.

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