Android: change default Home Application

by

I did an extensive research on that and starting from 2.2 there is no way to do that. The only way is using some hacking that toddler lock app does but this app put samsung phones recently in the infinite loop, so it is a risky approach.

if you look at the froyo source code here of packagemanager class, you will see this small condition in the addPreferredActivity method:

if (getUidTargetSdkVersionLockedLP(Binder.getCallingUid())
                     < Build.VERSION_CODES.FROYO) {
                 Slog.w(TAG, "Ignoring addPreferredActivity() from uid"
                        + Binder.getCallingUid());
                 return;
             }

HomeSwitcher does not work properly on 2.2 since it uses this very method and developer made a comment on app page “Froyo(2.2) is not supported
due to the API change“

More Related Contents:

  1. Detect home button press in android
  2. How do I set my app as the default SMS app?
  3. How to disable the home key
  4. Display back button on action bar
  5. Not able disable Home button on specific android devices
  6. Changing default port (i.e. 5037) on which adb server runs
  7. Android Preferences: How to load the default values when the user hasn’t used the preferences-screen?
  8. Disable home button in android toddler app?
  9. Android Overriding home key
  10. How to find default browser set on android device
  11. This Activity already has an action bar supplied by the window decor
  12. Getting the physical screen dimensions / dpi / pixel density in Chrome on Android
  13. Android PopupWindow with Tooltip Arrow
  14. How to get an Android WakeLock to work?
  15. Error importing HoloEverywhere
  16. Dynamic height viewpager
  17. How to get contacts’ phone number in Android
  18. Activity not started, its current task has been brought to the front
  19. How do I make an Android EditView ‘Done’ button and hide the keyboard when clicked?
  20. How can I disable all views inside the layout?
  21. Android emulator camera custom image
  22. Android screen size HDPI, LDPI, MDPI [duplicate]
  23. Does setWidth(int pixels) use dip or px?
  24. Error:Unable to resolve dependency for ‘:app@debugAndroidTest/compileClasspath’: Could not resolve junit:junit:4.12
  25. Android usb host api and USB storage
  26. Memory leaks with custom font for set custom font
  27. Using Camera in the Android emulator
  28. Firebase message with high priority not waking device from Doze android 6+
  29. INSTALL_PARSE_FAILED_MANIFEST_MALFORMED
  30. Different row layouts in ListView

Leave a Comment