Question

I’m working on an Android app using Eclipse and just started noticing a weird glitch.

When I deploy the app to my phone for some reason multiple app icons appear in my “Apps” folder area. Each icon brings me to a different class page within my app when tapped. Has anyone else experienced this as well?

Here’s a screenshot of the issue when running the app from the emulator on my laptop.

Since the issue is appearing in the emulator I know that it isn’t my phone that’s causing the error.

Each of the icons you see in that screenshot represents a different activity in my manifest file.

Here’s how the activity is set up in my manifest.

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

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

Would you say that this error being caused because of the way that I am setting up the activities? If so, how would you suggest that I edit the activities to fix this problem?

I’ve never seen this in any of the apps I’ve built before this one.

Answer 1

Only MainActivity(Launcher Activity) have intent filter with action as Main and category as Launcher,

 <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />
  <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />

And Remove this Two line For other Activity.