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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 10" xhdpi tablet launcher icon size

I have an app that creates shortcuts. it generates the shortcut icon dynamically, so I need to know the correct launcher icon size. To handle this, I created dimens.xml in values-ldpi/mdpi/hdpi/xhdpi/xxhdpi and defined my icon size to be…
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Launcher app not in chooser

I'm in the process of making a Launcher app, but I can't get my app to show up in the activity chooser when the home button is pressed. I'm sure I'm just missing something simple, but I can't find it! Here's my manifest file:
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Shortcut icon takes wrong image size on Galaxy Nexus

I tried creating an app which puts a shortcut icon on the home screen of the device. It works nice on other devices, but on my Galaxy Nexus (with 4.2.1) the icon crops the icon image and takes the top left of it only. It appears like this: Any idea…
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Make home intent take to specific application activity?

I've built a project that contains different packages and activities, say: com.example.package1.Activity1 com.example.package2.Activity2 The first package holds a launcher. On my project manifest file this activity is listening to the home intent: …
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Android widget doesn't respond to clicks until after RemoteView updates

I have an android app widget that gets some information from the internet when it is first launched. More precisely it launches a service that asynchronously does a network call. At the end of that network call, in the UI thread it updates the…
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How to make sure that the launcher activity always run when the app is launched from the home

I have 2 activities in my app. The A activity is the launcher one. When I run the app the very first time, the launcher activity runs, but when I press the home button and restart the app from there by clicking the app icon, I always get the B…
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INSTALL_FAILED_DEXOPT error when installing stock ICS Launcher on Samsung Galaxy S3

I have a Samsung Galaxy S3 and I've built the stock AOSP ICS Launcher2 app. I then tried to install the apk via "adb install" but I get an "INSTALL_FAILED_DEXOPT" error when I do that. The device logcat is as follows: D/AndroidRuntime( 5431):…
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BubbleTextView in Launcher2

I'm a new Android programmer. I'm exploring Laucher2 application in Android source code package. There is a strange View extending from TextView - "BubbleTextView" that is used in application.xml and folder_icon.xml. Is there anybody know what this…
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icon sizes android, most common padding/size facebook/youtube

So for the different screen sizes, you have the following sizes for the launcher icons: ldpi (240 x 320px) icon 36x36, 120dpi mdpi (320 x 480px) icon 48x48, 160dpi hdpi (480 x 800px) icon 72x72, 240dpi xhdpi (720 x 1280px) icon 96x96,…
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Android home screen lifecycle

Can someone explain me the "standard" Android home screens lifecycle? I'm asking this because I've noticed that my home screen when it's started goes in create-pause-resume-destroy-create without a coherent logic (this could not be the right…
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Android start singleTask activity without intent flag FLAG_ACTIVITY_BROUGHT_TO_FRONT

From the Android launcher source code, if ((intent.getFlags() & Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_BROUGHT_TO_FRONT) != Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_BROUGHT_TO_FRONT) { //reset homescreen to default page } The launcher resets the homescreen to default page…
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Android Widgets : On Focus, On Click effects to widgets

Thank you for reading my question, please read it patiently. The scenario is bit different than normal Android application. I am creating my own launcher for Android TV. I have complete permission to run my application as system app. I have my own…
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Android emulate home key launch intent

In some Emulators, if the user presses the home key in the launcher, it does a different task than if you switch to it from another app: For example, if the user presses home, it launches home. But if the user presses home again in the launcher, it…
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How to hide statusbar without lifting icons up in Launcher?

I want to hide statusbar in Launcher interface. I used code "window.addFlags(WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_FULLSCREEN);" to realize it. But the problem is while I long click on a desktop item, the statusbar is hidden, but the other Application…
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Android: How to bring android default launcher on back button press?

I want to bring the android default launcher on back button press, but I'm getting a dialog box style launcher. Also, I cannot call finish() because this is not my first activity and some of the previous activities are also not finished. Here is my…
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