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A launcher is a program that stores locations of applications to aid users in starting them.

Different desktop environments can have a variety of available launchers to aid users in starting applications in a general sense.

With regard to Android, Launcher is the name given to the part of the Android user interface that lets users customize the home screen (e.g. the phone's desktop), launch mobile apps, make phone calls, and perform other tasks on Android devices (devices that use the Android mobile operating system).

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Camera and Gallery has same package name

I am developing a Launcher application. I have noticed that camera and gallery have same package name, also Google+ and Photos have same package name. When I try to start camera/gallery it opens the gallery and when I try to start Photos/Google+, I…
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Creating a Launcher and sending info to second program

I have created a program that extracts data from a racing game and sends it to a speed gauge cluster. I call it the transfer program. I need a simple user-friendly User Interface to start the transfer program, set some variables and choose a COM…
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Long Press Flashlight Shortcut

I am developing a user interface launcher for the Android Platform running in Java programming. Currently, I am trying to implement a way for the user to long press (Touch and hold) their homescreen and it would open up the camera flash. Is this…
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How to add label below GridView item Android?

Right now I'm working on a launcher app, in which I've made a GridView which fetches all installed apps from the device. But there are only app icons and no app names. And I wanted to put app name below it so I tried to put TextView below my app…
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C++ Launching programs with system() not giving desired results

I have a C++ code setup that launches items for me, all i have to do is input the name and it launches. The Problem is that when I have the C++ Application launch it the C++ Application "turns into it" By that i mean pretend i'm using it launch a…
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How to create custom launcher app in Android like Go launcher app and themes?

I want to create an custom launcher with theme as per Go launcher functionality. Selecting theme will just change the themes installed Please suggest an example.
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calling android's basic launcher

Hi I am working on my custom launcher. My custom launcher is set to default launcher and I need to call the android's basic launcher once a user clicks a button programmatically. I have searched out a lot and found out I cannot just turn off the…
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how to get facebook unreadMessage number with android?

i need to develop a launcher application,i want to get the number of unreadMessage in facebook and show it on the icon of facebook in my launcher desk.then ,how can i achieve my goal?
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First Program - No Launcher activity found

I am struggling to get my first Android application to run. I create a new Android Application Project and ask for a "Blank Activity" on the Create Activity dialog box. When I run the Dave application as an Android project, I get the following…
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C# error net.minecraft.client.main.Main

Im trying to create own launcher for my server, but i could not run the game. string launch= "-XX:HeapDumpPath=MojangTricksIntelDriversForPerformance_javaw.exe_minecraft.exe.heapdump -Xms512m -Xmx1024m -jar "+ "-Djava.library.path=" + "\""…
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is it possible to do this with a batch file?

first post. I have an interesting request that has to do with batch files. I want to know if it's possible to code it so that the program that is launched with the bat file will terminate after a set amount of time, and then automatically restart,…
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Application is not working on launching from apps

i have developed a simple android application, to show a web like Google. It is working fine, when launch from eclipse, does not work when relaunch from installed apps of emulator. Here is my WebView activity code public class MainActivity extends…
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Hide Apps from Default Launcher

How is this possible? I've looked at PackageManager pm = this.getPackageManager(); pm.setComponentEnabledSetting(new ComponentName But It seems that isn't the solution. I want to essentially let the user checkbox which apps to hide from…
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Apps don't return

I have written custom home screen app from which I am launching apps. The main problem is the opened apps doesn't return to my home screen app, instead they go to the launcher home screen, even though I have set my home screen app as default home…
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android how can i open ADW launcher from my activity

i have theme and i want to put activity so when user open it he will see some thing like that i want to know what the action or package name i should provide to open ADW launcher ANSWER OK i found the solution Intent i=new…
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