Does anyone know if it is possible to change homescreen. I have a setup that installs all necessary xml files and Homescreen plugins, but I don’t know how to change Homescreen to mine during installation (and remove it during uninstallation) ...
I'm using - (void)applicationWillTerminate:(NSNotification *)notification to save data when my game exits, then loading it if the user presses the load button next time around. The saving and loading work fine, but I've noticed there is some lag between when I press the home button and when the data gets saved. Whenever I exit, relaunch ...
I want to add some custom buttons and realize the same effect like the iPhone's home screen. What I can think of is to calculate the position of each button and add them to the view. Are there any other ways to do this? e.g. add buttons to the tableview ...
I don't seem to find any documentation on how to implement an home screen plugin for Nokia E52 devices. Does someone know how to do this or where this documentation is? ...
I am trying to develop a Blackberry app that will change the Home Screen background image(not the application background image) periodically (just like WallPaper changer for windows) based on configurable time parameter. Is it possible to change the HomeScreen background programatically. is there any API to do that..? ...
I'm writing a Symbian application using Qt for Symbian that is supposed to run on S60 3rd edition FP1, FP2 and 5th edition phones. In my application, I will need to implement push notification functionality that will notify the user of changes on the server. Basically, it is a pending tasks application. When a new task is assigned to th...
I'm developing an application that should add it's shortcut to home screen after installation and remove it after the application is being uninstalled. The application will be preinstalled on the end user device, but still should have an option for uninstall). The task looks very simple but I've faced lots of troubles implementing it. W...
hi friends.. i have successfully made an application but whenever i try installing it in the BOLD 9700 simulator, the icon gets displayed in the "Downloads" folder... Basically my client requires that his app's icon be displayed in the main menu... that is outside the "Downloads"(in Homescreen).. I tried setting the HomeScreen positi...
How do I go about allowing my webapp to be installed as an icon on a user's homescreen? Is the data cached locally, so that the webapp can be run when the user is outside of 3G? I did a quick google, but my search terms were lacking. I noticed that Google Buzz allowed me to install locally, and I'm wondering what the process is for crea...
I am trying to use a ViewFlipper and make it act like the home screen(The layout will move with your finger). Check out this for an example. I want to do this with a ViewFlipper that only contains two children so the opposite view should be shown on either side of the current view depending on which way the user moves their finger. This ...
Hi everyone, I am sure this will have been answered but I proved unable to find it. So please excuse my redundancy. What I am trying to do is emulating the "Home" button which takes one back to Android's homescreen. So here is what causes me problems: I have 3 launcher activities. The first one (which is connected to the homescre...
I have made a simple punch in / punch out time clock application. I want to add the user the option of making a shortcut on the homescreen that will toggle the state of the app(time out / time in) but I don't want this shortcut to open up the app on the screen at all. here is my setupShortcut() private void setupShortcut() { Inten...
Hi, How can we update the View of a Home Screen Widget on the onReceive method of AppWidgetProvider?. I am trying to update the TextView of my Home screen widget but it seems that I cant access the TextView of my AppWidgetProvider on onReceive method. Here is a sample code of my onReceive public void onReceive(Context context,Intent...
Hi, How can we pass Android Home Screen Widget info ( putExtra maybe ) to an Activity.. What particular method callback will handle this one? ...
whenever I recreate the home screen widget on my phone, the onReceive() method is not called. the problem would be that it doesn't respond to Button press that I assign which its function resides in the onReceive method.. The issue does not reside on the emulator but when I tested it with my phone, it doesnt respond to it. What would...
Is it possible to show a alphabet/special character instead of number on the app icon on home screen ? ...
I was wondering if it's possible to get the icon (shortcut) of your app on the home screen during installation instead of inside the standard apps folder ? And I did find out that Android has AppWidgets but I was wondering if it supports "standard" widgets as well (javascript/html/css) ? ...
Hi, I have an mobile web application that I'd like users to be able to use on "home screen mode" (that is, adding it as a bookmark to the homescreen, and then launching the web app via the home screen button). However, this seems to behave differently than if it the web application was accessed via mobile Safari. For example, whenever...
What's the difference between these two? Do they both launch Safari (with the exception that the home-screen doesn't show a URL/tool bar? I've found weird quirks that appear in home screen version..do they have different rendering engines? For example, mailto: doesn't work in home-screen mode, and there are some small rendering/css-sty...
I have a homescreen widget with an imagebutton. I have the button working with a pending intent, but I can't seem to figure out how to change the button image when it is pressed. I tried using a selector and it works in my widget test activity, but not in the remoteview. How could I implement this functionality in the home screen widg...