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Removing an app icon from launcher

Wed, 04/20/2011 - 01:19 | by gabor
SDK Version: 
M3


Creating an application that does not appear among the launchable applications with an icon is easy.
Just do not put a launcher activity into AndroidManifest.xml

  1. <intent-filter>
  2.   <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />
  3.   <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
  4. </intent-filter>

Removing an application icon after installation programatically is a bit more tricky.
You can not disable the icon itself, but you can disable one component of an application. So disabling the applications launcher activity will result its icon to be removed from launcher.

The code to do this is simple:

  1. ComponentName componentToDisable =
  2.   new ComponentName("com.helloandroid.apptodisable",
  3.   "com.helloandroid.apptodisable.LauncherActivity");
  4.  
  5. getPackageManager().setComponentEnabledSetting(
  6.   componentToDisable,

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