Android Question Launcher preventing apps from start at boot

[mediait]

I am using a very basic launcher app whose only job is to start an app. The launcher works Ok and starts the relevant app, but other apps that are supposed to start at boot are not starting.

Has anyone any idea why this might be happening?

AddManifestText(
<uses-sdk android:minSdkVersion="5" android:targetSdkVersion="19"/>
<supports-screens android:largeScreens="true"
    android:normalScreens="true"
    android:smallScreens="true"
    android:anyDensity="true"/>)
SetApplicationAttribute(android:icon, "@drawable/icon")
SetApplicationAttribute(android:label, "$LABEL$")
'End of default text.
AddActivityText(main, <intent-filter >
        <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />
        <category android:name="android.intent.category.HOME" />
        <category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" />
    </intent-filter>)

Sub Process_Globals
    'These global variables will be declared once when the application starts.
    'These variables can be accessed from all modules.
End Sub

Sub Globals
    'These global variables will be redeclared each time the activity is created.
    'These variables can only be accessed from this module.
   
End Sub

Sub Activity_Create(FirstTime As Boolean)
    If FirstTime Then
        startApp("com.my.app")
    End If
End Sub

Sub Activity_Resume

End Sub

Sub Activity_Pause (UserClosed As Boolean)

End Sub

Sub startApp(pkgName As String) As Boolean
    Try
        Dim Intent1 As Intent
        Dim pm As PackageManager
        Intent1 = pm.GetApplicationIntent (pkgName)
        StartActivity (Intent1)
        Return True
     Catch
          Return False
  End Try
End Sub

 

[Erel]

Why do you need a custom launcher for that? You can set your app to start at boot.

 

[mediait]

The launcher starts the app.

The app itself is a basic kiosk app that does silent updates of itself every 24 hours.

There has to be a custom launcher for basic kiosk functionality. The app cannot be a launcher as after an update there would be user intervention required to choose launcher.

 

[Erel]

You can start the other apps yourself by sending intents.