Is it possible to launch other apps from my app like the application launcher or home screen do? I don't want to try a home replacement app. At least would a widget on home screen be able to launch other applications? Also can a widget on the (default) home screen receive swipe events (before a touch event)?
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I have been working on a replacement for the stock Car Home app for a bit, and I am completely stumped on how to override the Home button so that my app will be brought back to the foreground whenever the phone is docked. This is the way that Car Home works, so there must be a way. It seems that BroadcastReceivers won't work, because the intent that is broadcast whenever the Home button is pressed will still cause the default homescreen app to launch; I cannot prevent it. I can override the Home button from within my app, but that does me no good since this needs to work when the user is outside my app. Car Home also does not do anything weird like set itself as the default homescreen app while it's running (I checked the logcat to make sure).
I've been really beating my head against the wall on this. Does anyone have any ideas, or can you at least point me in the right direction?
Does anyone know of a home replacement app that supports live wallpapers and is very customizeable? Not open home, it fcs on me all the time!!
View 3 Replies View RelatedI'm trying to download the home replacement application Slide Screen by Larva Labs on my HTC Evo 4G but its not in the Market and when I click the download link on Slide Screen's web site I get a 404 error. Any idea if this app is no longer available or do I have to download it elsewhere?
View 5 Replies View RelatedI found ahome on appbrains website, but all of the ones I find say they work for android 1.1 software and then 1.6 software. How can I get it for my droid running 1.5?
View 8 Replies View RelatedCheck out this home replacement. This thing is pretty sweet. Its laggy right now, but once it gets updated a few times I think its gonna be very nice for simplistic use. Home Replacement App: NetFront Life Screen - Droid Life: A Droid Community Blog
View 21 Replies View Relatedhow to write a custom home-screen replacement application? Can any application be a home-screen by just registering it with a CATEGORY_HOME intent?
View 3 Replies View RelatedJust downloaded this from the android market...new app is great...great interface...Has reflective type menu on the bottom that you can slde across to view different shortcuts, cannot customize menu yet but im sure it will be available in next update.
View 49 Replies View RelatedWhen using a home replacment like Helix, Home++, etc. does the android home still run in the background and reduce performance? I had a lot of stuff on my stock home but just switched to Helix so how do i stop/disable stock home if it is running?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI've noticed some strange behaviour with resuming a task from a Home icon.Very easy to replicate, just create a new bare bones android project using eclipse, don't need to add anything. Then follow these steps:
1. In eclipse, Run the project on a emulator or device.
2. Once the app installs and launches the first activity, press Home key.
3. Launch the app again by pressing its icon.
4. Press Back key. Now this part seems wrong, you'll go back to the original activity in the stack, instead of the Home screen, even though its been previously launched and what you expect is it to bring back the stack as it was left, with one activity. If you repeat steps 2-3, it will just keep adding the same activity to the stack.
That is until you press Back all the way through the stack to the Home screen.Now this behaviour will never again replicate. It will be the correct (?) behaviour of bringing back the stack history at the state it was when Home was pressed. Note there are no behavioural modifications, this is just a default application. However, I tried many combinations of launchModes and stack clearing, they had no effect on the first run. Unless I'm interpreting the documentation wrong, when the user presses the Home key, the task is moved in to the background and simply brought back the next time they press the app icon? Why is the app icon altering the task it creates, if it already exists (with no flag modifications)?
I want to launch another application through the current application.
In RIM there is a "ApplicationManager.getApplicationManager().launch("String path")" method that launches directly RIM application mentioned in "String path".
Is there any method like this in android or any other way to solve this problem ?
I use to love Home ++ but lately its been crashing like crazy. I was gonna try GDE but I read some of the comments and that seems to have crashing issues also. Im tired of all the force closes. I have one widget and Im only using five home screens. Why is it closing so much
View 9 Replies View RelatedWhich home screen are you using? Default or replacement?
View 30 Replies View RelatedI cooked this up and wanted to share. By following the instructions here I was able to customize my N1 homescreen with the 3rd greatest British rock band; The Who! You will need ADW or LauncherPro and Desktop Visualizer and of course photo editing skills if you want to make a custom screen.
View 5 Replies View RelatedI have installed my Webview app as home replacement and now my app is loaded after Android reboot. (I do this only for test). Now I can't close my application and I can't uninstall it . (This was what I wanted, but not now!! my application was still under development. ) How I can now uninstall it and return to the default home? The only thing I can think of is to update the firmware, but this is my last option.
View 10 Replies View RelatedFunny topic maybe, but I feel like I have a decent hold on app development, widget development, and even made a game. I'd like to tinker with creating a home screen replacement but havn't been able to dig up any examples or good places to start. Does anyone have any recommendations or links that might help out?
View 3 Replies View RelatedWhich is the most highly recommended? I hear that both Home++ and Sweeter Home are good. I'd like something that looks like Sense UI if possible.
View 8 Replies View RelatedI'm looking for an app that allows me to have more than 5 screens on my nexus one. Currently I have home++ but it doesn't allow for live wallpapers and the app selection is really outdated looking imo. I tried launcher++ but it too had the app selection ugliness.
What i really want is a home replacement that mimics the normal launcher on 2.1 but has extra screens. I don't need anything fancy, i just want more screens and perhaps an infinity scroll feature. is there anything like that? even a custom rom maybe? does cyanogen offer more screens?
Say I have developed 4 applications. Is it possible to group these applications, so that I can access and launch these from one location?
Can the below flow work? Start an Application|Display launchers(icons) for 4 different applications|On click of the icon start the respective application.
I have written an application which calls native methods through JNI. In the native library 4 threads are started. On USB removal, the application is to be closed including the native threads. Upon receiving the USB removal event, we are trying to kill the threads (pthread_kill() ) and then finish (using finish()) the activity. After reconnecting the USB, the application is not launching due to memory corruption. In DDMS, it shows the threads are still attached to bionic. As the threads are not closed, I feel the resources were not released properly. If I reconnect again then application launches and works fine and the same repeats on every launch.
To solve this problem Can I use System.gc() ? Can I use pthread_exit() 1st and then pthread_join instead of pthread_kill ? Whats the procedure in Android to kill the native threads and also the application ? After the application is closed, will it not be listed in DDMS ?
Just relaying my usual FYI (might want to know) development... The group that was working on theming android has pretty much been a complete success... We now can change the animation along with the colors of the bar and other cool stuff...This requires a rooted moment tho so can not be applied to totally stock
View 1 Replies View RelatedI want to launch my application in market. I ahd go to http://market.android.com/publish/signup but there they are asking for Website URL. But i don't have any website then what should I enter there? or is it necessary to have our own website to launch application in market?
View 6 Replies View RelatedMy app has 4 activities on the stack A->B->C->D (top)
If you press home and re-enter the application, another instance of A is started, so the stack is A->B->C->D->A (top). I know this because when I press BACK, A is popped off and I now see D (instead of going to the Home screen).
What I want is that when the user re-enters the app, they re-enter on the same activity they were in before (D).
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Is it possible to re-use all the instances of Activities and Services when an application is launched twice. For instance: 1/ I start my application APP1. Some activities are launched and a service is started. 2/ I click "Home" device button 3/ I can see the icon the launch again my application APP1 4/ I click on it and the APP1 is launched twice
I would like to re-use the existing the instances of Activities and Services from the first launch. I guess it is related to "SingleTop" or "SingleTask" but it doesn't seem to work.
Is it possible to launch an app widget from another application.
For example, I have a button in an application. When I click on that button, an appwidget must be launched.
I would like to launch an app the user selects from within my application. However, I'm not sure how I'd go about doing this. I've tried this:
Intent intent = new Intent();
intent.setAction(Contacts.Intents.SHOW_OR_CREATE_CONTACT);
startActivity(intent);
But this seems to throw an error and force close my application. I also tried adding:
<action android:name="Contacts.Intents.SHOW_OR_CREATE_CONTACT"/>
in the AndroidManifest file, but to no avail.
A look at Logcat shows that it's an "IOexception - no such file or directory". A couple of questions arise from this. I read through the Android docs and noticed that the Contact.Intents class is deprecated. However, it's successor, ContactContracts is aimed at API level 5 whereas I'm targeting API level 3. Could this be the problem? Also, I've hardcoded this application into the code. Is there a way to retrieve the intents of any application the user selects so that they can be launched?
I want to launch an application in the phone by clicking its link in the browser..
View 2 Replies View RelatedI am trying to launch another application from my Activity. Something weird happens when I am running this code :
Intent myIntent = new Intent( Intent.ACTION_MAIN, null );
myIntent.addCategory( Intent.CATEGORY_LAUNCHER );
myIntent.setFlags( Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK | Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_RESET_TASK_IF_NEEDED );
ComponentName compName=new ComponentName(myArray[i][0], myArray[i] [1] );
// String[][] myArray myIntent.setComponent( compName ); startActivity( myIntent );
I have this error :
android.content.ActivityNotFoundException: Unable to find explicit activity class { com.android.settings/com.android.settings.Settings};
Have you declared this activity in your AndroidManifest.xml?
But when I replace this line
// myArray[i][0] = "com.android.settings" // myArray[i][1] = "com.android.settings.Settings" ComponentName compName=new ComponentName(myArray[i][0], myArray[i] [1] );
with ComponentName compName=new ComponentName("com.android.settings","com.android.settings.Settings");
And without any modification in my manifest, it works!
Looking at home replacements (leaning towards pandahome). I have what might be a dumb question...If I install one of these apps, will it erase all of my current settings, i.e. current location of apps, widgets, etc? Or will it just replace the current home and allow me to add more?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI am looking for a way to launch my application(few Activities, Services, Receivers) from the Setting menu.
In other words I am interested to know:
1. I this a trivial task ?
2. Did someone has done such task before ?
3. What APIs and application's code should I learn