topic Re: Customizing Android Home Screen in i.MX Processors

Customizing Android Home Screen

deepika_t — Mon, 22 Aug 2016 09:28:09 GMT

Hi Everyone,

I am currently working on Sabre-AI running Android M. We need to customize Android so that only an application should be running on our android device all the time from boot to power down. I am looking for a way to launch our application when the device boots immediately without showing the home screen. Also RAM usage should be minimum.Can anyone suggest how to proceed further.

Thanks in Advance

Deepika

Re: Customizing Android Home Screen

gary_bisson — Mon, 22 Aug 2016 14:10:28 GMT

Hi,

The proper way to do that is to make your application listening to the android.intent.category.HOME Intent.

Intent | Android Developers

Here is an example with the sample Home application provided in the AOSP:

Cross Reference: /development/samples/Home/

Another example is the Launcher3, which also declares in its Android.mk that it replaces all the other available HOME at build time:

Cross Reference: /packages/apps/Launcher3/AndroidManifest.xml

Cross Reference: /packages/apps/Launcher3/Android.mk

Hope this helps.

Regards,

Gary

Re: Customizing Android Home Screen

deepika_t — Tue, 23 Aug 2016 04:48:36 GMT

Thanks Bisson for your reply.I will come back to you in case of any further queries

Re: Customizing Android Home Screen

gary_bisson — Tue, 23 Aug 2016 10:31:31 GMT

Hi Deepika,

No problem. Please let the community know if this solved your issue and close the thread in that case.

Regards,

Gary

Re: Customizing Android Home Screen

deepika_t — Wed, 24 Aug 2016 04:48:54 GMT

Hi Gary ,

We are using the Intent method..Taken the Cross Reference: /development/samples/Home/ reference.

Still optimizations are going on. Thanks for your support.

Deepika

Re: Customizing Android Home Screen

SergioSolis — Wed, 24 Aug 2016 12:35:19 GMT

Thank you for posting the solution, it will help enhance our knowledgebase!

Re: Customizing Android Home Screen

art — Tue, 30 Aug 2016 09:44:32 GMT

Also, there are some reference materials on the Android Developer web site:

https://developer.android.com/training/basics/activity-lifecycle/index.html

Have a great day,
Artur