Android Question How to avoid placing app icon on home screen

[LudwigRS]

when installing the app as a widget?
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=pos_mapmypos.com

Many people are confused after installing my widget when they click on the automatically installed icon on the home screen which says then ´ please place this app as widget on the home screen´.

So i want to disable the automatic placement of the app icon.

Any ideas?

PS: remarked 'SetApplicationAttribute(android:icon, "@drawable/icon")
works, but false icon is showed in the widgets list (b4a icon instead of my icon) ?

 

[DonManfred]

Add both (or even just one of these)

AddReplacement(<action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />, )
AddReplacement(<category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />, )

lines to manifesteditor

BUT the problem may persist! The point is, that the App MUST be started one time manually.

 

[LudwigRS]

Thank you. I searched a lot before my post, but just now i found the post:
http://www.b4x.com/android/forum/threads/widget-without-activity-app-icon.46587/#post-287817

No icon is installed after that but in the widgetlist i see still the wrong android icon ... ? Any ideas?

If it has to be started one time, migt it be a solution, to start the app automatically after installation? Will find out, how to do that.

 

[DonManfred]

See attached zip´s res-folder... i use this to make a better preview-image of my widget
I dont know where i did found the info here in forum. But i found it somewhere here. Search forum

 

[LudwigRS]

Sometimes it is not easy to find the right solution here. Tooo much information
Thank you. I will test this and reply the result here.

 

[LudwigRS]

So, got it with your help.
The only change, i had to make for the right icon in the widgets listing was in the file : ... Objects\res\xml\mapmypos_info.xml
Here was at the end the icon info missing:
android:updatePeriodMillis="1800000" androidreviewImage="@drawable/icon" />
Unfortunately sometimes the designer overwrites this xml file and the icon info is missing again.
So i set the properties of the corrected xml file to read only and everything works fine.

The other change i had to do was in the manifest.xml to aviod showing the apps icon in the menu and to disable the ´open´ button after installation:
SetApplicationAttribute(android:icon, "@drawable/icon")
AddReplacement(<action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />, )
AddReplacement(<category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />, )

Now everything works fine.
Thank you for your help!