playing around with a new samsung tablet i noticed they have mini apps on the menu bar that you can overlay like a windows machine over any app you are currently in. Is this strictly samsung touch wiz or something that can natively be created / developed?
The mini apps bar / tray icon are features designed by Samsung. They developed them.
The feature is not related with the Touch Wiz Laucher itself (for instance, you can develop your own Launcher, and the mini apps tray will continue to appear.
About write or modify these feature: This is a more complicated issue, because Samsung doesn't publish their version of the Android, so we can't see what is implemented.
I think that the only thing you can do is blocking or uninstall the mini apps that appear in the bottom list.
Hope this helped you.
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I want my music widget to be shown on the screen in a similar way that RemoteControlClient works. I don't want the users to be needed to have the widget added to the lock screen beforehand. The samsung music app on thier 4.2 devices have this behaviour.
AFAIK, this isn't possible in the public SDK. Samsung's apps may be able to do it on their device because they are developed by Samsung for their own devices and have greater access as preinstalled system apps.
No API that I am aware of does this as of now.
I'm developing a tablet app on a Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 (Android 3.2). The tablet will be dedicated to running this app, which is used in an industrial environment. Our app will "own" the tablet and users can only access device features via our software. We already have a successful app like this running on phone-sized devices running Gingerbread.
On the bottom of the tablet screen Samsung has placed a "System Bar" (N.B.- NOT the Action Bar) and all kinds of other apps and widgets can be accessed from this bar. Is there any way to programmatically access this System Bar, to either modify (depopulate it of all its apps and clutter and just keep the Home and Back buttons), or to hide it altogether?
Thanks in advance.
You can hide the bar programmatically, but it requires root access to do so. This guy wrote an app to do it, and published the source code.
It is possible to remove the mini-apps, but it requires root - remove the APKs that the "mini apps" refer to, and they will disappear from the bar. There is no way to easily or programmatically do this, and your best option is to write a custom ROM with those apps removed. It's a giant pain in the ass.
If you don't need anything specifically from 3.2, then you should be able to track down a stock android 3.1 image that shipped on the galaxy Tab before touchwiz was ready. This will not have the "mini apps" or the screenshot button on the system bar. If you flash that, you won't need to root, as it's a signed image.
Im develping an app using apk 12 for 10.1 inch galaxy tablet. I would like to design a home screen only with my apps icon so that user will not be able to access anything else. Can I do that ? If yes, how ??
I would like to design a home screen only with my apps icon so that user will not be able to access anything else. Can I do that ?
Yes, it is possible to create a home screen application.
If yes, how ??
There is a Home sample app in your Android SDK installation (assuming you installed the samples from the SDK Manager). It largely boils down to having an activity with an <intent-filter> using CATEGORY_HOME.
Note that the user who installs your app will have the option of choosing between your home screen and the built-in one. Even if they make your home screen the default one, they will still be able to revert that decision by removing your app:
by booting in safe mode
via the Android SDK (e.g., adb uninstall)
by getting into Settings through notifications and the like
possibly other means
For ur knowledge lot many thing are diff for honeycomb.
For your knowledge, nothing changed in this area with Android 3.0.
Stock Android doesn't support 'badges' (e.g. unread count on a messaging app) that overlay the app icon like on the iPhone. There are a number of questions here on Stackoverflow which confirm this and suggest using a widget.
Whilst widgets are lovely things, they require too much interaction from the user to get in place (all that searching, long pressing etc.) and don't actually change the app icon. So no, that is not an option.
I accept that Android doesn't have app icon badges. However, HTC Sense and Samsung TouchWiz do. I'm looking at my Galaxy S right now, and the app launcher Messaging icon has a badge with the number of unread SMS messages.
Does anyone know how to access this badge functionality individually for Sense and TouchWiz devices? (I expect there are two APIs).
I don't know about HTC but I've written up how to do this on Samsung phones here How to interface with the BadgeProvider on Samsung phones to add a count to the app icon?
Does anyone know how to access this badge functionality individually for Sense and TouchWiz devices? (I expect there are two APIs).
Become an employee of HTC or Samsung, respectively.
HTC might start offering an API for stuff like this through Open Sense. Samsung might start offering an API for stuff like this through their developer site. I am not aware that either are at present and I wouldn't count on it becoming available.
What you are seeing is a feature of those home screens. You are, of course, welcome to write your own home screen where you have this functionality, perhaps even exposing an API for third-party developers to use.
Still no positive answer to this?
It's very strange that they (HTC and Samsung) haven't come up with a way for third-party apps to update their widgets! So we end up with users of third-party sms apps to complain about the sms counter not updating when it should. This is very sad, especially on the Android world where app integration has been made so easy by the framework! Such implementations should be negatively judged by Android community and the Android Alliance!
If anyone has found a work-around for force updating the widgets of the vendor specific sms apps (HTC and Samsung), so the unread sms counters correctly update, and would like to share this knowledge, you are more than welcome!
I'm planning on buying a sony ericcson xperia x10 mini pro but I don't like the blueish UI
I saw video of it running ADW Launcher and that looked great but,
Does using a different launcher also change the UI in the texting/emailing screens? , I want to have homescreens like ADW Launcher and the texting/emailing UI should look like pure android or ADW style.
When I think about the word "launcher" it isn't clear, does it modify only the home screens or the entire UI of the android operating system
Installing a new home launcher will only modify things it has control over, i.e. the home screens themselves. The UI remains the same in every other app, menu, etc. You can also just uninstall the app (ADW) if you don't like it.
And as far as the Xperia you're talking about, I know for most skins (Sense, Touchwiz, etc) there's no easy way to disable them. You'll probably have to wait for it to be rooted, and then install a stock ROM of Froyo on it.