Android Question hide my app icon

[Devv]

i am trying to hide app icon from launcher

i tried the following code without any success

Sub Activity_Create(FirstTime As Boolean)
    PMsetComponentEnabledSetting(true)
End Sub


Sub PMsetComponentEnabledSetting (enable As Boolean)

   Dim r As Reflector
  
   Dim cn As Object = r.CreateObject2("android.content.ComponentName",  _
      Array As Object("cb56.testtwoicons", "cb56.testtwoicons.activity2"), Array As String("java.lang.String", "java.lang.String"))
  
   r.Target = r.GetContext
   r.Target = r.RunMethod("getPackageManager")
  
   'COMPONENT_ENABLED_STATE_ENABLED = 1
   'COMPONENT_ENABLED_STATE_DISABLED = 2
  
   Dim e As Int

   If enable = True Then
      e = 1
   Else
      e = 2
   End If
  
   r.Target = r.RunMethod4("setComponentEnabledSetting", Array As Object(cn, e, 0), _
      Array As String("android.content.ComponentName", "java.lang.int", "java.lang.int"))

End Sub

 

[walterf25]

i am trying to hide app icon from launcher

i tried the following code without any success

Sub Activity_Create(FirstTime As Boolean)
    PMsetComponentEnabledSetting(true)
End Sub


Sub PMsetComponentEnabledSetting (enable As Boolean)

   Dim r As Reflector
 
   Dim cn As Object = r.CreateObject2("android.content.ComponentName",  _
      Array As Object("cb56.testtwoicons", "cb56.testtwoicons.activity2"), Array As String("java.lang.String", "java.lang.String"))
 
   r.Target = r.GetContext
   r.Target = r.RunMethod("getPackageManager")
 
   'COMPONENT_ENABLED_STATE_ENABLED = 1
   'COMPONENT_ENABLED_STATE_DISABLED = 2
 
   Dim e As Int

   If enable = True Then
      e = 1
   Else
      e = 2
   End If
 
   r.Target = r.RunMethod4("setComponentEnabledSetting", Array As Object(cn, e, 0), _
      Array As String("android.content.ComponentName", "java.lang.int", "java.lang.int"))

End Sub

If all you want to do is prevent the app icon to appear in the app drawer, then you can use this

AddReplacement(android.intent.action.MAIN, unused_action)

However the app will still appear in the applications manager list.

Hope this helps,
Walter

 

[Devv]

If all you want to do is prevent the app icon to appear in the app drawer, then you can use this

AddReplacement(android.intent.action.MAIN, unused_action)

However the app will still appear in the applications manager list.

Hope this helps,
Walter

this is mainfest code ?

 

[walterf25]

this is mainfest code ?

Yes, sorry forgot to mention that!