[android-developers] Re: How to Launch Home Screen Programmatically in Android

2011-01-21 Thread Hari Edo
Not that it's a particularly standard example, but the e-book reader NOOKcolor replaces the see all your apps launcher with the see all your Barnes Noble purchased e-books Home instead. So the Home key doesn't show all your apps, and neither would the ACTION_MAIN/CATEGORY_HOME intent. I

Re: [android-developers] Re: How to Launch Home Screen Programmatically in Android

2011-01-21 Thread TreKing
On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 2:06 PM, Hari Edo hari@gmail.com wrote: So the Home key doesn't show all your apps, and neither would the ACTION_MAIN/CATEGORY_HOME intent. To clarify - the Home key doesn't show all your apps, even by default. The Home key shows your Home Application - whatever

Re: [android-developers] Re: How to Launch Home Screen Programmatically in Android

2011-01-21 Thread Dianne Hackborn
(1) NOOK is not a compatible device. (2) What the home key (and this Intent) do is bring you to the home screen of the device. There is certainly no requirement for this to be a list of all your apps. In fact I don't know of any shipping Android devices where this is the case. On Fri, Jan 21,

[android-developers] Re: How to Launch Home Screen Programmatically in Android

2011-01-21 Thread Hari Edo
On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 12:06 PM, Hari Edo hari@gmail.com wrote: Not that it's a particularly standard example, but the e-book reader NOOKcolor... On Jan 21, 3:35 pm, Dianne Hackborn hack...@android.com wrote: (1) NOOK is not a compatible device. Dianne, I generally value your

Re: [android-developers] Re: How to Launch Home Screen Programmatically in Android

2011-01-21 Thread Dianne Hackborn
On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 3:45 PM, Hari Edo hari@gmail.com wrote: Dianne, I generally value your feedback on this group, it's always very informative. However, I'd have to ask what you consider to be the definition of compatible here. What part of the CDD does the NOOKcolor device miss?

[android-developers] Re: How to Launch Home Screen Programmatically in Android

2011-01-21 Thread Hari Edo
On Jan 21, 7:52 pm, Dianne Hackborn hack...@android.com wrote: Further, if you are planning on publishing an app to Market, I would *very* *strongly* urge you to *not* do development against a device that does not itself ship with Market.  You have no idea what kinds of things may be

Re: [android-developers] Re: How to Launch Home Screen Programmatically in Android

2011-01-21 Thread Dianne Hackborn
On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 7:49 PM, Hari Edo hari@gmail.com wrote: On Jan 21, 7:52 pm, Dianne Hackborn hack...@android.com wrote: Further, if you are planning on publishing an app to Market, I would *very* *strongly* urge you to *not* do development against a device that does not itself