Ok, when I said replacement I really meant alternative...
I don't think my expectations were unrealistic, though I can see how
you can think they were when I said replacement. I was expecting to
be able to long press the home key and have the activity chooser
dialog (or whatever its official
Tikoze wrote:
I was expecting to
be able to long press the home key and have the activity chooser
dialog (or whatever its official name is) ask me whether I wanted to
use the alternative application or the default one.
That's certainly a fine concept; it's just not implemented that way at
Everything I read said that essentially any part of the phone could be
replaced.
First, most likely what you read refers to the fact that Android is open
source, and so you can build your own firmware and deploy it on your own
devices with whatever changes/replacements you want.
Even beyond
Tikoze wrote:
I am writing an app that will replace the functionality of the dialog
displayed when performing a longpress on the home key and cannot
figure out how to get my activity this way.
I have spent the last week searching through the SDK, Google Groups,
and normal google searches
Everything I read said that essentially any part of the phone could be
replaced. So, you can replace the home app (which is launched by just
pressing the home key) but you can't control what happens when you
long press?
That is a very poor/disappointing decision by OS designers that really
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