Are there any guides on how to use activity shortcuts on the home screen? eg. Hold down finger -> Add Shortcut -> Activities -> ...
Specifically I want the vlingo app icon to open vlingo and start speaking right away. Similar to the vlingo widget, but I need to do this with an icon shortcut.
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It's very easy to add shortcuts or widgets onto the home screen but I can't find how to delete them. For widgets I can delete the app If I don't want it anymore, but If i still need it how do i take it off.I added a mail shortcut on the home screen, and I haven't been using it since my e-mails are synced. I need the room on my home screen but can't delete it.
View 6 Replies View RelatedI have about 150 apps installed, but only 30 of them are currently on the homescreen.
Is there a way to add the remaining 120 at once to the homescreens?
If I would have to do it manually (Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1) it would take at least an hour to do (adding one shortcut is extremely slow, as my tab needs about 10 seconds to display the list of apps alone when creating a shortcut).I don't have to do it manually for each app.
I've, accidentally, deleted default shortcuts on right homescreen (GPS, Wi-Fi, bluetooth & wibe)!
How can I get it back? Tryed via shortcuts, but nothing.
I'm writing program for Android (SDK 1.5). I would like to know how to add/register one of my program activities in "Home Screen -> Menu -> Add-> Shortcuts" (or on Hero "Home Screen -> Menu -> Add to Home-> Shortcut") so that user will be able to add it to his home screen. Is there an Intent Filter or any other way to achieve that?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI'm trying to implement similar behavior as the native phone app. When a User is in the applications menu/drawer (place that lists all applications) and receives and incoming call, after the call has ended the User is returned to the Android Homescreen. How do I redirect activity to the android homescreen like the phone app for that specific case.
View 2 Replies View RelatedWhat I am trying to do is emulating the "Home" button which takes one back to Android's homescreen. So here is what causes me problems: I have 3 launcher activities. The first one (which is connected to the homescreen icon) is just a (password protected) configuration activity. It will not be used by the user (just admin) One of the other 2 (both accessed via an app widget) is a questionnaire app. I'm allowing to jump back between questions via the Back button or a GUI back button as well. When the questionnaire is finished I sum up the answers given and provide a "Finish" button which should take the user back to the home screen.
For the questionnaire app I use a single activity (called ItemActivity) which calls itself (is that recursion as well when using intents?) to jump from one question to another:
Questionnaire.serializeToXML();
Intent i = new Intent().setClass(c, ItemActivity.class);
if(Questionnaire.instance.getCurrentItemNo() == Questionnaire.instance.getAmountOfItems()) {
Questionnaire.instance.setCompleted(true);
} else Questionnaire.instance.nextItem();
startActivity(i);
The final screen shows something like "Thank you for participating" as well as the formerly described button which should take one back to the homescreen. But I don't really get how to exit the Activity properly. I've e.g. used this.finish(); but this strangely brings up the "Thank you" screen again. So how can I just exit by jumping back to the homescreen?
Is there an app or a way to get more than 16 shortcuts or apps/Widgets per screen on the moto Droid? I would like to see one more row so I could get 20 per screen.
View 5 Replies View RelatedOn the main screen, how do i delete the shortcuts etc. on the screen, i somehow managed to get 2 googlemaps on there. Also is there a way to arrange them?
View 1 Replies View RelatedIs there a way to move shortcuts or widgit icons from one screen to another?
View 8 Replies View RelatedI was hoping to make some shortcuts to web pages on my phone. I did make the shortcuts but the icons are blah. I was just wondering is it possible to make the icons more distinguishable, like the espn or cnn icon on the moment? I have any cut installed but don't think that it is the answer unless I am missing something in it.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI just installed ADW.Launcher and i can't figure out how to change the shortcuts next to the app drawer.
View 2 Replies View RelatedHas anyone had any luck making custom shortcuts in Launcherpro? LP's shortcut forum is long on requests and short on answers/methods for making useful shortcuts.
View 2 Replies View RelatedIs it possible to rename shortcuts on the home screens (i.e., apps, widgets, folders)?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI like how contact shortcuts are done in Android 2.1, where you click on the contact shortcut and a quick menu showing phone, contact card, SMS and email are shown. I also like how when you click one of those items, you get to choose, for example, Text Home or Text Mobile. What I seem to be noticing, though, is that if I check the box that says, "Do this action by default" or whatever it is, then it does things by default for all of those actions. For example, if I check that box when I select "Text Mobile," because, really, I'm never ever ever ever going to text someone at home, then I go and select the call icon, rather than asking me if I want to Call Home or Call Mobile, it just calls (in this case, mobile). Anyone know how I can straighten this out and have my "default" only affect the one action?
View 2 Replies View RelatedDoes anyone know if there is a way to rename the icons/shortcuts for apps? Do these icons reside in a folder within root somewhere? I wonder if renaming the icons/shortcuts would allow us to reorganize the way they are sorted in the app tray (since it is alphabetic).
View 7 Replies View RelatedI have a folder with 16 shortcuts in it I would like to reorder with in the folder.
Say, change it from:
1 2 3 4
5 6 7 8
9 0 a b
c d e f
to:
a b c d
e f 0 9
8 7 6 5
4 3 2 1
I've done a lot of searching and reading, but can't seem to find anything on this, except to delete the folder and then recreate it in the order I want, this is quite difficult for something that I should be able to just drag around in the folder.
On the main screen, how do i delete the shortcuts etc. on the screen, i somehow managed to get 2 googlemaps on there. Also is there a way to arrange them?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI am new to this android programing.
I need to add my application to home screen as shortcut programmatic.
Please give the idea for that. If possible please tell me how to manage existing shortcuts(deleting and adding some more shortcuts)
I'm latvian and in our language there are letters as ā, ē, �, ū and so on... Question: Is there an option (some keyboard or other method) that if I type two a (aa) and phone automatically transforms it to ā. I found that stock android keyboard has shortcuts, but it doesn't change these phrases - they only show them as suggestion.
View 2 Replies View RelatedIs there an app that will let me run window shortcuts/commands from an android device? For example, here is what I'm trying to accomplish:
1. I have 3 monitors but due to limitation in my video card, only 2 monitors can be shown at a given time.
2. I want to easily switch between them using the phone instead of from the PC.
3. If you have windows 7 you know that to switch displays you can press the windows+P keys and then toggle between 4 different display options. I created shortcuts for this since I only need one of the display options, not all 4. So I just have to double click and it'll quickly switch, cool.
4. So now I just need a way to be able to run that shortcut away from my PC.
I'm having an issue about 4.3 lockscreen. I was using 4.1.2 and it was good. But installed a rom. All good but this. I'm always using pattern lock for security. On 4.1.2, i can use shortcuts + pattern lock. But in 4.3 there's no option for it. When i enable pattern lock, shortcuts disabling. How can i enable both? Gt-N7100
View 3 Replies View RelatedIn Eclipse I'd like to quickly rebuild and run my app after making changes.
Say the change was in manifest or resources. Now I have to focus with mouse on main java source file, press Ctrl+F11, choose (with mouse or two keys) to Run as Android app.
Is there a keyboard shortcut to just save all, build&run the project as an Android app?
Looking for something where when i swipe down, i see notifications and a horizontal row of assigned apps.
View 12 Replies View RelatedTo can you understand my question I will give you example with windows XP. The desktop shortcuts in winxp are stored in folder C:Documents and SettingsUserDesktop. If I save this folder and later I lost all shortcuts I can restore it.mI have this problem with the apps shortcuts in my phone home screen. My question is where is the location of this folder, where android store the shortcuts in the home screen? My phone is root and I have root explorer installed.
View 6 Replies View RelatedIn my application I have a number of Activity classes. When I run on emulator (or install to a device) a corresponding number of program shortcuts show up in the programs menu. Why does this happen and how can I avoid it?
View 2 Replies View RelatedIs it a good practice to define the alphabetic shortcuts (alphabeticShortcut) of the menu items?
I ask because I've never used them in any of the Android devices that I have owned, even those that have a physical keyboard. Is there any reason to define them? Maybe an accessibility use-case than I'm not seeing?
do i need to close/delete the widgets/icons on my original homescreen? do these still run and take up resources or does it not matter? logic tells me yes, but im not familiar with linux and how it runs.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have been looking to find a way to place a shortcut to VPN I have setup on the HomeScreen of the Droid. Any ideas? I was unsuccessful doing it on WM6.1 on the XV6800.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI've asked "how to detect home screen" before. I'm still searching. I noticed when I press "home" button on Android emulator, I got this statement in catalog so I went to ActivityManager to see if I can find a clue there. Here is my findings: 1. I can not instantiate ActivityManager because it's constructor is not public, and it's not a singleton 2. it has a function called: getRunningAppProcesses sounds promising -- would it give me all the running processes? 3. since I can not instantiate ActivityManager I tried to use one of the derived class: RunningAppProcesseInfo to see if I can use it's parent methods: getRunningAppProcesses. Nope.
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