Question

I am complete newbie to Android development and I have to make a Home screen app like this one

http://www.4shared.com/video/tjKMbnEk/noteBook.html

It must have the scrolling folder widgets , I am not much familiar with Android terminology and having a hard time searching for this stuff. I’ll appreciate any help.

Answer 1

Basically you need to set your main activity as a default home activity. In your AndroidManifest.xml, you set this for your main activity:

 <intent-filter>
     <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN"/>
     <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER"/>
     <category android:name="android.intent.category.HOME"/>
     <category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT"/>
 </intent-filter>

This will give the user the option to choose your app/activity as the home screen.