To set your App or any individual activity display in Full Screen mode, insert the code <application android:icon=”@drawable/icon” android:label=”@string/app_name” android:theme=”@android:style/Theme.NoTitleBar.Fullscreen”> in AndroidManifest.xml, under application or activity tab.
For main activity in your manifest you have to add this with category LAUNCHER (First Activity on launch app): <activity android:name=”.MainActivity” android:label=”YourAppName” android:theme=”@style/AppTheme.NoActionBar” > <intent-filter> <action android:name=”android.intent.action.MAIN” /> <category android:name=”android.intent.category.LAUNCHER” /> </intent-filter> </activity> For other activity you have to change category to DEFAULT: <activity android:name=”.OtherActivity” android:theme=”@style/AppTheme.NoActionBar” > <intent-filter> <action android:name=”package.OtherActivity” /> <category android:name=”android.intent.category.DEFAULT” /> </intent-filter> … Read more
In Android, you can define meta-data information in your AndroidManifest.xml HERE IS THE DOCK LINK Very basic usage It is basically an additional option to store information that can be accessed through the entire project. In this case, <meta-data> is defined outside <activity> tag and inside <application> tag. Defining: <manifest> <application android:icon=”@drawable/icon” android:label=”@string/app_name”> <meta-data android:name=”my_test_metagadata” … Read more
Following worked for me from the command line: aapt dump badging myapp.apk NOTE: aapt.exe is found in a build-tools sub-folder of SDK. For example: <sdk_path>/build-tools/23.0.2/aapt.exe
From official documentation : To enable Google to crawl your app content and allow users to enter your app from search results, you must add intent filters for the relevant activities in your app manifest. These intent filters allow deep linking to the content in any of your activities. For example, the user might click … Read more
The LAUNCHER intent filter is what determines what shows up in the app drawer/launcher. That is why you get two icons shown up. However, you also set the DEFAULT intent filter, which sets the default Activity for the whole package. Since you set it twice, you get the problem of precedence of the first/latest registered. … Read more
In Android Studio 3.3 you can also see Merged Manifest by clicking on Merged Manifest tab. It’s showed at the bottom of the editor pane when you open your standard project manifest. see documentation: Merge multiple manifest files
Did you check if onDestroy() was called as well? That’s probably why onCreate() gets invoked every time instead of onNewIntent(), which would only be called if the activity is already existing. For example if you leave your activity via the BACK-button it gets destroyed by default. But if you go up higher on the activity … Read more
Here’s what you can do in four steps: First: In the first interesting method of your service (I used on create): /* (non-Javadoc) * @see android.app.Service#onCreate() */ @Override public void onCreate() { super.onCreate(); //whatever else you have to to here… android.os.Debug.waitForDebugger(); // this line is key } Second: Set break points anywhere after the waitForDebugger … Read more
There are two ways to achieve what you need, first is to define custom checkbox layout custom_chexbox.xml at res/layout: <?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”UTF-8″?> <CheckBox xmlns:android=”http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android” android:id=”@+android:id/checkbox” android:layout_width=”wrap_content” android:layout_height=”wrap_content” android:focusable=”false” android:clickable=”false” android:button=”@drawable/android_button”/> Then you need to specify this layout for the preference: <CheckBoxPreference android:key=”@string/Drop_Option” android:title=”Close after call drop” android:defaultValue=”true” android:widgetLayout=”@layout/custom_checkbox”/> Second way is to create a custom … Read more