home-screen

Programmatically navigating to the Windows Mobile home screen

We have an application that downloads some files in the background. Our application pops up when an Internet connection is made, and after prompting the user to accept the downloads, we'd like to switch back to the home screen while we do our stuff. We can't work out how to do to this. We can emulate pressing "back" a few times, which s...

Android homescreen shortcut permission error

Hello, In my program it adds a shortcut to the screen. I get the icon on the screen fine, but when I tap it, I get: 03-01 20:00:29.410: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(796): java.lang.SecurityException: Permission Denial: starting Intent { data=http://www.example.com/ flags=0x14000000 comp={com.isaacwaller.example/com.isaacwaller.example.ExampleCu...

Javascript for "Add to Home Screen" on iPhone?

Is it possible to use Javascript to emulate the Add to Home Screen option in Mobile Safari's bookmark menu? Something similar to IE's window.external.AddFavorite(location.href, document.title); possibly? ...

iPhone Bookmarks and Session variables (User has to log in twice)

Hello, I'm creating a web application meant to be viewed by iPhones, Blackberrys etc. My problem is that, when an iPhone user adds a link to the app on their home screen, they have to log in twice. The cycle goes like this: User bookmarks the app's homepage User later goes to the homepage They are brought first to the log in screen Af...

What is the name for the view that manages the iPhone home screen?

My google-fu is failing here. I'm looking for the name of the UIView (or whatever it is) that handles several pages, with those little glowing dots indicating which page you're on. ...

Decoupled AppWidget Intents after Home process restart

My Android app Transdroid offers several home screen widgets. Every AppWidget has 2 'buttons' (ImageButton), one starts the app and one starts some activity that refreshes the AppWidget content. Pretty simple. Here is a screenshot. The widget code is at my Google Code website, but most importantly: RemoteViews views = new RemoteViews(co...

How to create a custom home-screen replacement application on Android?

Can anybody tell me where to find information about how to write a custom home-screen replacement application? Can any application be a home-screen by just registering it with a CATEGORY_HOME intent? ...