Question

My application is basically a service, i.e. has no UI (there isn’t any class subclassing Activity). I want to have it displayed in the list of applications and to run the service when it’s started from there, with the advantage that the user can create a shortcut to display it in the home screen.

Is this possible?

Answer 1

Found the solution to this:

1. Create an Activity and in the onCreate(...) method call your service and then call finish().

2. To prevent the flashing of the Activity opening and closing, use this as the theme of your Activity (in the AndroidManifest.xml):

   android:theme=”@android:style/Theme.Translucent.NoTitleBar”