Question

I’m working on an Android application and haven’t had a problem running it on my HTC Incredible 2. However, the icon will not show up in my programs list. I can get to it only from the Recent Apps and the list of Installed Apps (it shows up under Downloaded). Any suggestions? Here’s my AndroidManifest.xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
package="com.xxxxx.xxxxx" android:versionCode="1"
android:versionName="1.0">

<uses-sdk android:minSdkVersion="8" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE" />

<application android:icon="@drawable/ic_launcher"
    android:label="@string/app_name" android:debuggable="true">
    <activity android:name=".XxxXxxDroidActivity"
        android:label="@string/app_name" android:theme="@android:style/Theme.Black.NoTitleBar">
        <intent-filter>
            <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />
            <action android:name="android.intent.action.MEDIA_MOUNTED" />
            <data android:scheme="file" />
            <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
        </intent-filter>
    </activity>
    <activity android:name=".FileManagerActivity"
        android:theme="@android:style/Theme.Black.NoTitleBar"></activity>
</application>

Any suggestions to fix this problem always involve the presence of the <intent-filter> lines, but Eclipse automatically added them and they make no difference for me one way or the other.

Answer 1

In your manifest, for the class XxxXxxDroidActivity add another intent-filter:

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