Android :: Writing Custom Homescreen / Launcher
Jun 11, 2009
I'm interesting in writing a custom homescreen and launcher. By launcher, i mean the list of apps that appear when you push the menu button from the homescreen.
Are these two different native applications (homescreen and launcher)? Or is the menu that pops up part of the homescreen application.
Further, It there some Intent I could declare in my app that would instruct android to load my launcher / homescreen app instead of the native one, or would this require me to reimplement from source and build a custom platform?
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Sep 19, 2010
How do i remove a app from the home screen without deleating it ? or does that just remove it from home screen?
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Nov 19, 2010
homescreen 3D - Android program launcher on Vimeo. with a few more updates, this could be awesome. it removes the ability to use widgets and stuff, but it's very smooth scrolling and on my vibrant it looks so cool. i'm not the dev or the maker of the video. just someone wanting to mention this cool app.
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Nov 22, 2010
Hi everyone, so I installed the ADW.launcher homescreen replacement app and love it. The only problem is that I have to force quit my default homescreen (in this case it's called "LG Homescreen")--task-killers won't work and I have to go into the application settings to force it. Fine. But every time I reboot my phone it runs along side of adw and I want only adw when the phone boots. I already set adw as my default homscreen, no change.
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Jun 28, 2010
ALL THANKS GOES TO rolle3K: TouchWiz30_rolle.apk ... at uploaded.to - Free File Hosting, Free Image Hosting, Free Music Hosting, Free Video Hosting, ... (I got it from bais on MoDaCo). It is an apk and it has been tested and proven to work on FroYo and �clair (not sure about Cupcake/Donut). Install through adb or a file explorer. I tried it out, not too bad. Still prefer LauncherPro but I can show this off if an iPhone fanboy talks about how great iPhone UI is. Couple of notes: -To edit bottom dock, go into menu, press edit, this allows you to move icons around between dock and menu. -To edit order of homescreens or # of homescreens, go home, press menu and then edit. Couple of flaws: -Cannot set your own icons for bottom dock (you can change which apps are there but cannot use custom icons). Cannot set a default homescreen.
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Feb 10, 2009
I am writing a custom button.
In the android button, I can customize my button like this:
CODE:......
And in the Button.java source code, it gets the value like that: In TextView.java:
CODE:......
My question is if I need to add a new value in the customization for my button.
CODE:....
How can I get 'myattribute' in my class for my custom button?
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Nov 24, 2010
Any one else notice that when using launcher pro and pinching the homescreen to get the previews, there is an initial lag at first? After a couple of pinches on the homescreen it speeds up and becomes more smooth tho, but the initial pinch is always laggy for me. I was thinking it could be something in the memory settings of the LP preferences, however upon playing with the settings I come up empty.
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Mar 29, 2012
1. Is it possible to replace homescreen with app launcher? I mean when you press home button, homescreen shows up, is it possible to force phone to open app drawer instead of homescreen when you press home button?
2. Or/and maybe there is a launcher which shows all your apps not alphabetically but by date and also with ability to arrange the apps however you want?
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Mar 1, 2014
Have similar threads >(URL>...)I am looking for an alternative to GO launcher.I have not upgraded my GO launcher since 3.11 due to bloatware.I would like to ask is there any launcher that allows custom sorting of apps inside the folder?For e.g i have created a folder called Games in the app drawer and would like to custom the games sort them instead alphabetical order.
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Jul 26, 2010
I have a custom layout that draws a transparent rounded rectangle beneath its children. The problem is when I try to add it to my xml file, it doesn't show up. Also, when I try to add parameters to it (i.e. android:layout_width) the popup shows that none of them are available. The same thing happens to any child views I add. public class RoundRectLayout extends LinearLayout
{ private RectF shape;public RoundRectLayout(Context context)
{super(context);
LayoutInflater layoutInflater = (LayoutInflater)context.getSystemService(Context.LAYOUT_INFLATER_SERVICE);
layoutInflater.inflate(R.layout.settings, this);
shape = new RectF();
}public RoundRectLayout(Context context, AttributeSet attrs)
{ super(context, attrs);
LayoutInflater layoutInflater = (LayoutInflater)context.getSystemService(Context.LAYOUT_INFLATER_SERVICE);
layoutInflater.inflate(R.layout.settings, this);
shape = new RectF();
} @Override
protected void onSizeChanged(int w, int h, int oldw, int oldh)
{shape = new RectF(0, 0, w - 5, h - 5);
super.onSizeChanged(w, h, oldw, oldh);
}@Override
protected void dispatchDraw(Canvas canvas)
Paint temp = new Paint();
temp.setAlpha(125);
canvas.drawRoundRect(shape, 10f, 10f, temp);
super.dispatchDraw(canvas);
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May 15, 2010
I just wanted to know what launcher everyone is using on 2.1. I myself am using HelixLauncher and have been impressed, but would like to find out if there is anything else out there that i might be missing out on.
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Aug 4, 2010
I was usind ADW for a while and liked it. I like LP better because of the scrollable bar bit when I hit the home key or back up to home, about 50+% of the time it takes ten seconds to redraw. I do ude widgets but it should not be this bad. In settings I tried keeping LP in memory, I set high mem useage and many of the other options and its the same. I even uninstalled wiped cache pulled battery and its the same. Is there a setting config I should be using, or not?
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Feb 20, 2014
I use Nova launcher. I am on a moto X inches btw. I'm not tied strongly t move launcher.
Basically, I want to crop widgets like the Google keep widget (u only need quick keep text not the list picture etc) and other widgets. Is there a launcher or a way to do this? I can resize them, but I'd like to crop them
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Jan 30, 2013
I have stock gingerbread launcher and I wanna faster homescreen transitions, and faster entering in app drawer and also how to change icon pressed/focused color on homescreen and in app drawer (I wanna that invisible). I know decompile but don't know where and what to modify.
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Sep 16, 2010
I am trying to add custom icons to the homescreen (not the dock) and I can't seem to figure it out. Can someone give me some guidance?
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Jan 9, 2013
I have a rooted Asus Transformer TF700 and got init.d working. I have it start eBay, Skype and Voice (I found the widget doesn't load until the app is started) with the sleep command in between each to ease the processor.
I would like to add a line at the end to return to the home screen. How I can implement the home button though adb shell?
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Nov 22, 2010
My Use case like this
- User is in my application
- User presses home key (application goes to background)
Now user wants to go back to the same application (task in android terms)
one way is it through the application launcher BUT
for my application there is no icon provided.Instead user have to launch app with some "key combinations ". Essentially I have to write program to simulate application launcher.So How can "application launching" be achieved with CODE?
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Aug 19, 2010
I've seen a few posts about this but nothing to say definitively (thank god for spell check!) if it's possible or not. On my HTC Legend (HTC Sense with Android 2.1) if you go to add and folder from a homescreen you have a choice of All people, Facebook Phonebook, Phones, Starred (Favorites). Is it possible to create another folder that will hold members of a contact group that I have created? I can create a new empty folder but don't know how to put contacts into this instead of other home screen icons (this would do if I can't use contact groups).
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May 13, 2010
I have a rooted driod 2.1 and wanted to know if there was a way to increase the home screen from 3 to 5+ without using a custom rom or home launcher. Modify a preference file or something? I have tried a few launchers and prefer the stock one.
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Sep 25, 2009
The Android app I'm currently developing has a main activity that has grown quite large. This is mainly because it contains a TabWidget with 3 tabs. Each tab has quite a few components. The activity has to control of all those components at once. So I think you can imagine that this Activity has like 20 fields (a field for almost every component). Also it contains a lot of logic (click listeners, logic to fill lists, etc). What I normally do in component based frameworks is to split everything up into custom components. Each custom component would then have a clear responsibility. It would contain it's own set of components and all other logic related to that component.
I tried to figure out how this can be done, and I found something in the Android documentation what they like to call a "Compound Control".
(See http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/custom-components.html and scroll to the "Compound Controls" section) I would like to create such a component based on an XML file defining the view structure.
In the documentation it says:
Note that just like with an Activity, you can use either the declarative (XML-based) approach to creating the contained components, or you can nest them programmatically from your code. Well, that's good news! The XML-based approach is exactly what I want! But it doesn't say how to do it, except that it is "like with an Activity". But what I do in an Activity is call setContentView(...) to inflate the views from XML. That method is not available if you for example subclass LinearLayout. So I tried to inflate the XML manually like this:
public class MyCompoundComponent extends LinearLayout {
public MyCompoundComponent(Context context, AttributeSet attributeSet) {
super(context, attributeSet);
LayoutInflater inflater = (LayoutInflater) context.getSystemService(Context.LAYOUT_INFLATER_SERVICE);
inflater.inflate(R.layout.my_layout, this);
} }
This works, except for the fact that the XML I'm loading has LinearLayout declared as the root element. This results in the inflated LinearLayout being a child of MyCompoundComponent which itself already is a LinearLayout!! So now we have a redundant LinearLayout in between MyCompoundComponent and the views it actually needs. Can somebody please provide me with a better way to approach this, avoiding having a redundant LinearLayout instantiated?
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Mar 16, 2012
Issue with a custom ROM I've been playing around with in an attempt at customizing it to meet my personal needs.
Basically, the custom ROM installation removes old, unwanted .apk's from the stock image it is replacing. This is done by a script/command in the META-INF->com->google->android->updater-script file. Here's an excerpt as an example:
Code:
run_program("/sbin/busybox", "mount", "/system");
show_progress(1, 100);
package_extract_dir("system", "/system");delete("/system/app/Launcher2.apk");
However, while the script works perfectly to remove the actual apk's/apps from the device, once the custom ROM is loaded, the old shortcuts (to some of the apps that were uninstalled) remain on the homescreen (these shortcuts are placed there by default by the stock ROM). If you try to tap the shortcut, it simply states something to the effect of "this application is not installed on your device". While these "dead" shortcuts can be moved to the trash bin and deleted from the homescreen, it'd be nice if I could make it so the custom ROM installation automatically does this.
I've tried modifying the Launcher2.apk to reflect the changes I am looking for; but to no avail. In the Launcher2 /res/xml/default_workspace.xml file, I am easily able to specify which apps I do want shortcuts placed on the homescreen for during the installation. But - there doesn't seem to be a way for me to issue a command to remove the old, unwanted shortcuts and these "dead" shortcuts are present nonetheless, despite whatever changes I make to the default_workspace.xml (it does add my "new" shortcuts, though).
Any way that this could be done during the actual custom ROM installation process? And where would I add it to (default_workspace.xml, Android Manifest.xml, framework-res.apk, boot.img...
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Aug 31, 2010
i put the little droid icons on my launcher pro dock. But for the life of god i cant find the method to add the icon packs u download from market or apks online and get them to show up in gallery using astro?
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Aug 6, 2010
I download a custom icon pack to my sd, which the icons are in png form. I'm using laucher pro and when i try to use custom icons option, the gallery opens up and Im assuming that its only reading jpeg files and doesnt show the PNG files anywhere. So how would i be able to assign those custom icons if so.
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Sep 26, 2012
I have the source code of custom Android 4.0.3 ROM for chinese device which is under development.The home screen in this ROM does not have the launcher bar at the bottom (which Android phones have).Is there any way to enable this launcher bar (see screenshot) in custom ROM and if yes then what will be the sequence of actions to do this?
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Oct 5, 2012
I am using HYPERION Rom build 06 and I want to using on it lmodded touchwiz launcher from Creed v3.5. So I use root explorer and I delete default launcher and I was trying to install launcher from creed. But... It does not work. Still says that "application is not installed"... GT-S5360
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Aug 16, 2010
I'm sure that many of you are aware of this, but for those who aren't, you can now have Custom Icons on your Droid X without the use of any special Launchers. The program that allows you to do this is known as Desktop Visualizer. If you have either downloaded any Custom Icon pack, or simply transferred some custom icons over from your Computer, Desktop Visualizer will allow you to choose the Custom icon that you desire, and then choose the Application or task that you want it to replace.
The really neat thing about this is the ability to create several different sizes of your downloaded Custom Icons. Simply long press on an available space on your home screen and choose from one of 4 different Icon sizes.
Please note that the "Small SS" size creates a smaller icon than the "Small" size, even though it comes first in the list. Also, be aware that some of your Custom Icons may appear sharper than others when enlarged. I assume that these were created at a higher resolution, or whatever the terminology might be.
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Jan 9, 2014
I have Alcatel OneTouch Idol 6030x, rooted with framaroot, and I wanted to install an other launcher. I have installed Nova Launcher, press the Home Button and it asks me which launcher to go. I select Nova launcher and set as default. But everytime I lock/unlock my phone, default settings are gone and it asks me again. It's annoying. I have tried with other launchers.
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Aug 7, 2010
Im running the latest update of launcher pro, but I have one problem when I change the default icons to my custom ones and if i go from lets say landscape back to normal all my icons revert back to default.
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Feb 27, 2012
I'm using the latest version of GO Launcher Theme Factory, and I've made a theme with around 30 icons, but I can't seem to add custom icons for other apps that aren't in GO's list. For example, I want to add a Nexflix icon for my theme, but I can't because when I double click on the add custom icon button, GO wants me to open an .apk file, not an image file. How to add a new icon to the list where it's actually an image file, or .apk file that I could download to my comp that has a bunch of custom icons listed (I'll make my own actual icons).
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Apr 6, 2012
I'm having a problem
Before:
After:
Or after 2:
If you open the icon settings dialog however, the custom icon is still there!
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