How to visible/invisible launcher icon in android?

Asked Nov 19 '13 at 05:39

Active Nov 19 '13 at 10:25

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I am creating an application in which i need to hide icon launcher and show icon launcher on request. I used below code to hide launcher icon.

<category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" /> // Remove this line from manifest.xml

PackageManager p = getPackageManager();
p.setComponentEnabledSetting(getComponentName(),
PackageManager.COMPONENT_ENABLED_STATE_DISABLED, PackageManager.DONT_KILL_APP);

By using these snippet of code, I am only able to hide application icon.

In order to show i used these code snippet

PackageManager p = getPackageManager();
p.setComponentEnabledSetting(getComponentName(),
PackageManager.COMPONENT_ENABLED_STATE_DEFAULT, PackageManager.DONT_KILL_APP);

and

PackageManager p = getPackageManager();
p.setComponentEnabledSetting(getComponentName(),
PackageManager.COMPONENT_ENABLED_STATE_ENABLED, PackageManager.DONT_KILL_APP);

But none of them is effecting or i am not able to retrieve launcher icon back programmatically. Please suggest me how can i achieve this task.

Thanks in advance

edited Nov 19 '13 at 10:25

asked Nov 19 '13 at 05:39

Vijay Kumar

I don't see the difference between last two code snippets. – gunar Nov 19 '13 at 06:47
@gunar : last line of code , you can see the difference :) – Akarsh M Nov 19 '13 at 06:53
@gunar: PackageManager.COMPONENT_ENABLED_STATE_DEFAULT and PackageManager.COMPONENT_ENABLED_STATE_ENABLED – Vijay Kumar Nov 19 '13 at 06:54
Now I see it ... I need to change my glasses :) – gunar Nov 19 '13 at 08:28

How to visible/invisible launcher icon in android?

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