My app name contains 12 characters. But application launcher icon appears with truncated text.
As i observed this issue is not produced in all device. I am using device with OS 4.0.3.
App launcher icon should show full app name regardless of app name length.
Is there any property available in Android Manifest to set app name without eclipsing? or Is it default behavior of device that apply on all launcher icons?
Thanks in advance.
Imagine a name like TheCoolestAppIveEverDoneAndWantToBeDisplayedCompletely. Imagine that to be forcing its whole title to show.
This is why there is no such option. And there really is none. The only thing you could do is develop your own launcher or contact the devs of other third-party launchers.
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I'm working on an app for elderly people, it will show a big clock and show family pictures/videos posted by family.
The problem I have is that I need to lock the app's icon on a fixed place on the user's device so it can't be accidentally moved or deleted from the home screen.
How can I lock the icon in place programmatically?
Thanks!
How can I lock the icon in place programmatically?
Step #1: Write your own home screen/launcher app.
Step #2: Lock the icon in place in that launcher.
There are no requirements for any other launcher to even show an icon, let alone allow third-party apps to control anything about such an icon.
Recently, I am implementing the adaptive launcher icon in my android application. I have successfully implemented it.
I ran my application on some Gionee mobile( mostly i run my application on Stock Android) running on customized Android 6.0 like mi or Huawei. I found out that there is some kind of ugly mask the manufacturer has embedded in the customized Android which makes the App Icons ugly.
So, I downloaded other apps and found out that other apps also have this ugly mask but apps like Google Tez, Google PlayStore, and many other Google apps are somehow defying this ugly mask thing making their icons like the original. How are they doing it?
I thought by putting their launcher icons into mine could put an end to my misery and I will somehow get the insight of making the launcher icon more compatible.
Here is the result of putting Tez icon in my resource file.
As you can see there is that ugly mask in my icon on the left of google chrome and the right one is the original Tez app icon. How are they doing it?
I want to use the square version of my launcher icon but somehow android keeps forcing use the rounded version.
I read forcing square app icon and although the explanation makes sense it is not true:
in this screenshot you can see that most of icons are rounded but you have
contacts, widget preview and terminal emulator
And before someone say "they are special apps" terminal emulator is a shit app i downloaded from play store... In my cellphone 80% of apps are rounded but instagram, booking and some others are square...
how to force android use my square launcher?
There is a solution for this which i have tried and its works for me.
What we have to do is take the app icon and keep in res -> drawable.
App icon should be in all formats:-
mdpi
, hdpi
, xhdpi
, xxhdpi
, xxxhdpi
with same name for example-
ic_app_icon.png(mdpi)
ic_app_icon.png(hdpi)
ic_app_icon.png(xhdpi)
ic_app_icon.png(xxhdpi)
ic_app_icon.png(xxxhdpi)
Then in Android Menifest file do this change
android:roundIcon="#drawable/ic_app_icon"
by this we can get app icon square.
First, please understand that there are hundreds of different launcher implementations in use across the ~10,000 Android device models and ~2 billion Android devices. How a launcher chooses to represent your activity is up to the developer of the launcher. For example, there is no requirement for the launcher to use any icon at all (e.g., a launcher optimized for screen readers and visually impaired users). A launcher that does use some sort of graphical element might use your icon or not, and if if it does use your icon, it might modify it (crop it to a shape, apply a color filter, cause it to spin, whatever).
Your screenshot appears to be of the Android emulator. In that case, temporarily, you can set your targetSdkVersion to be 25 or lower, and that particular launcher will not attempt to adapt your launcher icon.
However, please bear in mind that you will not be able to ship your app on the Play Store with that low of a targetSdkVersion starting in a few months. So, if the Play Store is your planned distribution channel, you will need to get used to Android's adaptive icon system and deal with the fact that the shape of your icon will be changed on most Android 8.0+ devices.
I want to replace my icon in apps dock when after installing my developed app. That means when I install my app (dialer), it shows on apps dock by replacing an existing one (stock dialer).
There are many home screen implementations for Android. Not all of them have such a dock. There is no standard API for asking a home screen to replace something in a dock.
You are welcome to contact the developers of various home screens and see if they offer some API to allow you to replace an icon in their dock.
This is not possible for several reasons.
First, the dock is basically a small drawer. The user can put an icon there themselves and the default one is specified by the launcher app.
Secondly, there is no common interface to ask the current launcher to add an icon to the dock. Many launchers do not have a dock at all! :-(
So, you should just let the user decide whether they want to have your app on the dock :-) Alternatively, you can write your own launcher which will put your app in the dock by default! :-D
I realy dint know how this screen is named :/ i called it after the message it shows when no app is running "your recent screens appear here". It basicly shows all apps currently runnning on the device.
So you know what im talking about here screens (sry big and spammy) with and without running apps. The second screen also shows the google widget i want to get rid off.
Is there a way to adjust the "your recent screens appear here" screen on Android phones and Tablets?
Is there a solution without using the Device Administration API?
If the Device Administration API is required - where can i find a documentation/tutorial that teaches me how to do it?
Currently we created a Launcher App for Android in order to deny access to most other Apps. It only shows our app and the android settings.
Unfortunately there is an Google Widget on the "your recent screens appear here" screen. It is the same widget shown on the Home screen, when using the default launcher. When i disable the Google Application the Widget disappears properly from the Home screen, but leaves a "Couldn´t add widget" message on the "your recent screens appear here" screen.
Currently we are looking for an easy solution to get rid of that widget.
there is actually no way to customize this page without changes in the OS.
still i found a workarround to get rid of the widget.
when starting an App i add a flag that prevents it from beeing displayed in the recent apps screen. this way the user only sees the empty recent apps screen which has no widget.
Intent i = manager.getLaunchIntentForPackage(apps.get(pos).name.toString());
i.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_EXCLUDE_FROM_RECENTS);
HomeActivity.this.startActivity(i);