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An Android Launcher is the app responsible for showing the home screen, live homescreen widgets, wallpapers and displaying an app list. Unlike iOS, a launcher on Android can be provided by third party.

Launcher is the part of the Android user interface that lets users customize the home screen, launch apps, make phone calls, and perform other tasks.

The Android OS comes with a default launcher, but there are a number of alternative Launchers available for download on Google Play, and many OEMs replace the default with their own implementations.

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How to get available "app shortcuts" of a specific app?

Background Starting from API 25 of Android, apps can offer extra shortcuts in the launcher, by long clicking on them: The problem Thing is, all I've found is how your app can offer those shortcuts to the launcher, but I can't find out how the…
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How to get the list of all installed shortcuts found in the homescreen Launcher in android

I wanted to get the list of all installed shortcuts in the homescreen launcher programmatically. I have found lots of snippets online but none of them provides the right output for this snippet: Intent shortcutsIntent = new…
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Set google as search bar in home screen Custom launcher programmatically

I am creating 'my own launcher. In that case I want to putQuick search bar` in my home screen i.e. Google now launcher. How can I do that. I have gone through multiple threads but not found any relevant answer. I don't want to show the widget…
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Android Widget looking exactly like a Launcher Icon

I am having a hard time with widgets. Reading from http://developer.android.com/guide/practices/ui_guidelines/widget_design.html#cellstable there is the following table: 1 cell - 40dp 2 cell - 110dp ... n cell - 70 × n − 30 dp So my widget that…
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Remove Activity as Default Launcher

I set my activity as a default launcher to intercept home button clicks like so: …
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programmatically add the widget to home screen in android

I have developed android widget app and its working fine. Now my client asks that, when the user installed this app, it automatically needs to place on homescreen top position. How to do this? please help me.
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group multiple apps under the same icon in Application launcher

I want to group multiple apps under the same icon in the application launcher. For example, 5 apps each displaying 1 different image. But those 5 apps should appear as separate apps on the Android market, therefore they need to have different…
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Create Circular Launcher Icon

I am trying to create circular launcher icons in Android Studio 2.2 but they keep coming out square. Has anyone else encountered this? Am I doing something wrong?
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App not listed in launcher due to in AndroidManifest.xml

When I add in AndroidManifest.xml, it causes my app not to be listed in the launcher anymore. Why? AndroidManifest.xml without :
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Is it possible to have more than one launcher Activity?

Is it possible to have more than one application in one apk file? or is there a way to have different launcher icons for different activities inside one app? I want to separate my app into some different (but related) logical parts.
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Launcher Icons (Legacy only) showing white background icon android studio 3.3

In android studio 3.3 when I am trying to import image for launcher icon using legacy only option its showing white background icon even after importing the image its showing same and not changing the icon with imported one. See the…
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Android pin activity on boot

I've got an app that registers itself as the default launcher and pins itself automatically when started. This all works fine when installing the app. It pins itself and only the back button is visible. The problem is that when the device first…
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Android manifest merging: removing LAUNCHER intent-filter doesn't take effect

In my android app I use a library project and I use one of it's activities. However in the library project that activity has MAIN action and LAUNCHER category intent-filter. So I added that activity to my manifest and removed the intent-filter. The…
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Why is resolveInfo.loadLabel () so ridiculously slow?

In my home screen replacement app, I have to get a list of all installed apps to put them inside the app drawer. Hence, the following method gets run on every app; public static App fromResolveInfo (Context context, PackageManager pacMan, AppManager…
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android: choose default launcher programmatically

I want to pop up a dialog that lets the user choose a launcher to be launched with set as default option. I tried Intent home = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_DEFAULT); home.addCategory(Intent.CATEGORY_LAUNCHER); Intent chooser =…
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