Question

Specifically, I am looking for a way to prevent the “black screen” from showing up when I run my app.

The app just runs a quick program whenever it is pressed but since it is linked to an Activity, it loads up a layout (black). I know I could do a widget but I need it to be in the launcher….

Is there any way to do this?

Answer 1

You can avoid the black screen by adding

android:theme="@android:style/Theme.NoDisplay"

To your activity tag in the AndroidManifest.xml

eg:

<activity android:name=".Activity"
      android:theme="@android:style/Theme.NoDisplay" />