CODEWITHSUNDEEP
android
nimi
nimi

Reputation: 606

Hide application from menu and show when we want to

I want to hide my app from main menu, when user want to, s/he can see their app.

To hide the app I've removed the launcher category, and for now the app get hidden but now I don't understand how can the user launch the app. I've read somewhere that using a key combination (on the DialerPad) one can show the main screen of activity. How is this done? Any other ideas of launcher an app when a launcher is not present?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 592

Answers (1)

tanmeet
tanmeet

Reputation: 220

Yes you can hide your application icon but only on rooted devices or system signed apps.....the solution will be to first disable your application using shell command pm disable com.yourapppackagename and then enable it back using **pm enable com.yourapppackagename** this will first disable your app removing app icon from device and then enabling back your app will bring back the app icon only in device menu and not on homescreen. if you want to disable and then enable on user choice then you may create a toggle button such as when off then disable your app and when on then enable your app.It will definatly work i have already worked on something similar

Upvotes: 1

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