I am trying to add a launcher icon to my Android application, but something seems wrong with resolution whan app is installed. The device I'm working with has an XHDPI screen, so I am testing with a 96x96 (px) image. I used the Image Asset in Android Studio to generate a default icon:
Place your launcher icons in the mipmap folders instead of drawable. Some phones scale launcher icons up. Putting you launch icons in mipmap folders will have the phone use a large resolution icon if needed.
Upon further investigation, I found two launcher icons in my launcher. One of which will either resume the application if it is running or force close if it is not running. The second will behave as normal - launches the application normally and resumes normally.
These problems persist identically in all my emulators and devices whether I turn off the phone, manually kill the app or uninstall/reinstall the app. A simple ctrl+z did not work. To clarify - all I would like is to go back to have one launcher icon to launch my application normally (nothing special goes on at all).
I am now presented with an immediate force close on launching from either icon. I did find code within two activities within my Manifest displaying and changing the second line from .LAUNCHER to .DEFAULT did fix my original problem. However, I am now always presented with an immediate force close...there are now problems (that I can see) within my originally launcher activity...I am having a lot of trouble attempting to fix this (have no idea what to do) and am starting to become VERY worried!
I found my problems and I thank you guys for all your help! I actually had two separate and unrelated problems that occurred at the same time. Number one - two icons in my launcher: caused because I had two activities with a androideclipseiconslauncherlaunching-application Share Follow edited Jan 3, 2012 at 15:45 karthik 17.5k7070 gold badges7979 silver badges123123 bronze badges asked Jan 2, 2012 at 6:12 feztheforeignerfeztheforeigner 32711 gold badge44 silver badges1212 bronze badges Add a comment 5 Answers 5 Sorted by: Reset to default Highest score (default) Trending (recent votes count more) Date modified (newest first) Date created (oldest first) 24 two activities have
It keeps bugging out on me and making icons vanish temporarily and when I swipe to see my most recently used apps it's just a blank screen. The only remedies I've found so far are to either reboot the entire phone or restart the launcher. But these need to be done several times per day now and it only began after upgrading to Android 14. Anyone else having issues with Nova?
For the sake of something else, I created product flavors. Yes, it works perfect if I want to trigger / show different activitis inside different product flavors. However, I wanna keep the default launcher activity from src/main/ folder, while register another flavored activity as the new launcher activity. So that for different product flavors, I could have different launcher activities, and from them I could still start original "launcher" activity in src/main/.
Adding if (BuildConfig.FLAVOR.equals("flavorName")) code to original launcher activity is not prefered. Because I don't want to modify the production code from someone else (this is a library project).
Due to some reason, in a product flavor, I don't want to overwrite the MainActivity, instead, I have a YetAnotherMainActivity. The goal is to set the YetAnotherMainActivity as the new launcher activity in the product flavor, and it should still be able to call MainActivity.
I guess I am not late :)So today I got the same problem. @seroperson solution was correct but If you do not want the default launcher activity at all then just use the below code in your flavor's manifest:
I am making a launcher for android, and I'm stuck at the widget part. I've been searching for about an hour and a half on the internet trying to figure out how can I host widgets in my application, but no luck.
Open Settings->Applications->default applications.Tap home screen and select your required launcher.(if you have only stock launcher(for Samsung devices, it will be Samsung Experience Home), then there will be only one present, if you've installed other launchers like Nova etc. , then there will have a list of launchers available. Selecting any one launcher will set it as default launcher of device)
As AndrewT said: When you install 3rd-party launchers(from play store or using apk), you just add more selections for the launcher, but not necessarily replacing it wholly. Or in other words, you can have 10 launchers installed on the same phone at the same time, but only 1 active launcher.
Every Android device comes pre-programmed with a default launcher, but you can also download third party launchers, like Microsoft Launcher. Third party launchers allow you to further customize the look and feel of your phone, and Microsoft Launcher uniquely encourages greater productivity by making it easy to continue viewing photos and files between your phone and your PC.
To simplify the transition, we have made Microsoft Launcher compatible with most other launchers so you can easily import your previous layout. You can also choose to start fresh and build a new home screen from scratch.
Yes, but since Android devices only support using one launcher at a time, there is no easy way to toggle back and forth between launchers. Rest assured, though, your previous launcher is still accessible, so you are free to explore what Microsoft Launcher has to offer without worrying about losing your old information.
NOTE: For Microsoft Launcher v 6.2 and later, this setting will no longer be enforced. Therefore, setting this value to True will have no effect. Your end users will not be able to customize the location of the search bar placement on their device.Dock ModeStringShowAllows you to enable the dock on the device when the user swipes up from the bottom on the home screen.
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