I want to create an application “menu” which houses 4 or 5 icons which launch customs applications specific to my company. Is there a specific way to do this in Android?
I don’t know what it would be called, exactly, and googling “android launcher”, “menu” and “application shell” just bring up a lot of unrelated static. What’s this called in android parlance?
Wufoo,
It sounds like you want an application dashboard. The Google iosched example program might get you on the right path: http://code.google.com/p/iosched/
Unless you mean to have the device ONLY launch your applications, then your app would be a complete Launcher replacement. The Launcher is described as…
But that may no be what you want.