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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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Android package installer - how to get "Open" and "Done" and activity result both?

My Android Application has an option to upgrade to the newer version, the newer version APK I keep it available under a path in sdcard. On click of Upgrade option I invoke following method. public static void launchInstaller(Activity act, String…
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Why is launcher activity with launchMode="singleTask" always pushed to top of backstack even if another activity was on top?

My launcher activity has the launchMode attribute set to singleTask due to certain requirements.
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How to detect if launcher supports home screen rotation

This may be considered to be a repeat of this post, but that never did receive a proper answer, so maybe the question needs a bit more context to attract an answer. Basically I have managed to set up a monitoring Service that watches for home screen…
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Android - How to start creating a launcher app?

I am going to start my new app which is going to be a Home Replacement. I have been through the example provided by google. but i am still little bit confused. like Where should i start? Should i create a normal activity by extending an Activity…
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android- remove black background from launcher icon api 26

I've a big problem with launcher icon in api 26 I've png with transparent background , But it gets black on transparent parts this is the result : it's not for the theme because other apps has no background this is my manifest :
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Open global search as overlay

I am writing a launcher and want to be able to open up a search as an overlay rather than full-screen in the Google App. So far I only found a way to open the search in the Google App full-screen as follows (taken from AOSP Launcher3 source code): …
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Android launching wrong activity

Android is launching wrong activity when I start app. Manifest.xml :
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Android Animation on running new application

I'm creating new launcher for myself. now when I run applications from my main activity it has this default animation which put my launcher behind and pops new application on top of it. Instead of this, I want to attach my own animation. Preferably…
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Android: Home launcher activity is recreated into new task only the first time when pressing HOME

I want to prevent user from leaving my app. I am trying to achieve this through home launcher activity/application and I don't understand android's behaviour. Pressing HOME first time always creates new activity in new task instead of moving the…
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How to bring up the set default launcher prompt?

I want to detect if my launcher app is the default launcher, and if not bring up a prompt to have the user choose my app as the default launcher. The issue I am facing is that the prompt comes up without the options "Just Once" and "Always".…
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Android Wear Launcher

I am wondering how the Android Wear launchers like Swipify and Wear Mini Launcher intercept touch events on the android wear home screen. I have tried adding the onTouch and onClick listeners to the Watch View Stub in my app so far, but I can not…
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My launcher app starts twice when booting device

I have created a Launcher app. Everything works fine but I get errors when booting up the device. If I turn my phone off and then I turn it back on I found out that the app gets started 2 times and both of them starts about the same time. Any help…
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Application launch from splash everytime ( while closing with Home) when installing from sdcard with Open option

I have found very strange bug with any of the Android application, when we are installing the application in Android Device with given flow. Unistall the app if already installed. Download the app(.apk file) and keep in SD card Double click on the…
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How to remove application shortcut from home screen on uninstall automatically?

I'm developing an application that should add its shortcut to home screen after installation and remove it after the application is being uninstalled. The application will be preinstalled on the end user device, but still should have an option for…
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How launcher accessing Icon pack?

There are lots of icon pack avails on Google play store, which are compatible with launchers, I just wonder that how launcher access & identify such icon pack so it get reflect to launchers. I succeed to code inside Icon pack which linked to…
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