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Home screen refers to the top-level interface on a mobile device from which apps and other features are accessed.

On both Android and iOS, devices boot to the home screen, which is the primary navigation and information point. This is similar to a desktop on Windows or OS X computers.

A homescreen is typically composed of app icons and widgets. Choosing or tapping on an app icon launches the associated app. Widgets display live, auto-updating content such as weather, inbox contents, or news headlines.

A homescreen can consist of several pages that the user can navigate among, typically with a swipe gesture.

Android's homescreen interface is heavily customizable, allowing the user to change the look and feel of the device to their tastes.

Third party apps available on Google Play and other app stores can extensively re-theme the homescreen, and even mimic the look of other operating systems, such as Windows Phone.[38] Most manufacturers, and some wireless carriers, customise the look and feel of their Android devices to differentiate their products from the competition.

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Check if web app is added to home screen on Android

I have a web app and on the Android I would like to display an alert describing how to add my app to the home screen. (Add it to "Bookmarks" and then "Add it to home screen" or "Add to shortcut in Home"). Then a icon will be displayed on the screen…
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Add Shortcut for android application To home screen On button click

I want to make it easy to add my app to home screen by pressing a button. So What I am Thinking is a button at the bottom of my app that says "Add to home screen" and when it is pressed, it adds the shortcut to the home screen without closing the…
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Android homescreen shortcut permission error

In my program it adds a shortcut to the screen. I get the icon on the screen fine, but when I tap it, I get: 03-01 20:00:29.410: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(796): java.lang.SecurityException: Permission Denial: starting Intent {…
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What can I do to prevent iPhone 4 from cutting off my title when adding to home screen?

I have long web page title and when adding to home screen in iPhone older versions the whole title is visible in the confirmation dialog. When I add to home screen in iPhone 4 the title is cut off after the 12th symbol. Is there a way to stop this…
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Get a list of every launcher in Android

In my application I want to show a list of every available launcher (for homescreen) on that specific Android phone. Is it possible to get some kind of information from Android OS and how do I make this call? Thanks! Kind regards Daniel
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Is there any way to put an EditText/input field into a homescreen widget?

I want my user to input something on the homescreen, but every time I add an Edittext to the widget it breaks. I did a little google searching to find that they apparently are not supported in widgets. There is a Google Search widget with an input…
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Detect touch event of navigation buttons inside a service having window

I am building a app which starts a service on some event. The service have a overlay view on top of every app (like facebook chat head). I want to stop the service and remove the overlay view on click of navigation soft key buttons (back, home and…
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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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Overlay screen on Android

How is it possible to add Views/Images to my homescreen? The best example is the facebook messenger: If you long-click at a chat item, you can choose "pop out cheat head", then you have a small button overlaying your screen. There are also apps like…
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iPhone web-app from home screen always reloads switching between apps

I'm working on a mobile web app (website) that requires you to add it to the home screen. When you open it, and switch to another app, then go back to my web app, the whole app reloads. It shows the splash screen and doesn't even remember where you…
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Disable Home Button in Homescreen app?

I am working on a research project for my university. The app will never be put on the market and only used for research. I have made a homescreen app by using the Google Homescreen sample code. In there, I have made an activity that is a…
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How to return to home screen from Activity

I know Android will return to the home screen when I press the Home key, however, I want my imageButton to behave as the Home key, which can inform the home screen to the foreground. How should I implement my onClickListener to accomplish this?
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Home screen app (android) facebook login opens browser

I'm working on a website that is focused on mobile users and uses a manifest to be opened standalone when added to the home screen. This works well, except for the Facebook login function. Whenever I try to login it opens the Facebook link in the…
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How to identify user click from iphone "home screen"

Some users of my mobile site add the site to home screen in safari in iPhone (using "add to home screen"). Is there any way to know if they come from clicking the home icon, or typing the url? Or, to solve my problem, I want know how many users…
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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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