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That’s it, you now have your own custom launcher application. The tap on the Home button shows you a chooser dialog from which you can select the appropriate Launcher app. homescreen.xmlġ 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17Īs it’s a Launcher app, so when you install it you don’t get to see anything unless you tap on the home button. Public class AppsLoader extends AsyncTaskLoader > Ī simple layout file to embed the grid fragment. Here is the code to load the applications list asynchronously, we’re using a custom AsyncTaskLoader class, later we’ll hook it up in our fragment class using the Android Loaders. AsyncTaskLoader to asynchronously load applications Now as we have finished with the manifest file, let’s add some code to display the list of installed applications in our Home Screen, this way we can at least use the app after installing. Display installed applications in our custom homescreen

Android looks for this particular intent filter and whenever you install your app with this intent-filter set then your application will appear in the list of installed launchers (a tap on the Home button will reveal the list). The important line in the above XML file is, this intent-filter allows you to set your application as Home Screen application.