If you can't send ACTION_PACKAGE_CHANGED, how are alternative markets/ installers supposed to work? While it looks like if you sent ACTION_PACKAGE_ADDED the same thing would happen, based on the filter Launcher sets up, that seems less correct.
I agree that Sense UI probably has some cooperating mechanism between their launcher and their apps. I was experimenting with activity aliases as a way of turning on and off the ability to launch into multiple different activities in the same app. Is that still kosher? I replied here because it seems that you could use the same technique to change icons. On Jun 6, 2:40 pm, Dianne Hackborn <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 6:44 AM, Zigurd <[email protected]> wrote: > > I should add that you would have to get the launcher to update by > > broadcasting an intent with the action ACTION_PACKAGE_CHANGED. > > You should not send this kind of broadcast. In fact in newer platforms you > can't. > > > But > > that should be a general way to implement what Sense UI does by > > changing app icons. > > Sense UI probably has some special cases hard-coded in to things. Being > able to change app icons is something we'd like to do at some point, but has > been a lower priority than many other things. I don't know when it may > happen. > > -- > Dianne Hackborn > Android framework engineer > [email protected] > > Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to > provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such > questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and > answer them. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
