Those apps are probably on external storage, which has not been mounted
yet. You need to look at the broadcasts to find out when it is available.
On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 4:02 PM, Farmer <duanxiao...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I am writing a launcher in Android and here is the problem I have been
> trying to fix for a while with no luck.
>
> I have below code to query all activities running at very beginning of
> my launcher, say onResume().
>
> final Intent mainIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_MAIN, null);
> mainIntent.addCategory(Intent.CATEGORY_LAUNCHER);
> final List<ResolveInfo> infos =
> packageManager.queryIntentActivities(mainIntent, 0);
> for (final ResolveInfo info : infos) {
> // create my own record for each activity
> }
>
> The problem is that if I set my launcher as default and reboot the
> device, every time I can get only part of the full list by above code.
> It seems some big fat activities (such as Wind-up knight) are always
> missing. However running above code second time will return the full
> list. Does any one have idea why? My guess is that PackageManager
> needs some time to parse the fat activities and if
> queryIntentActivities() is called too early, it just returns a partial
> list, is that true?
>
> But why the default launcher has no such issue at all?
>
> Thanks for any help in advance!
>
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