The PackageManager lets you do this.  Look at the home screens sample code
we provide in the SDK for everything you need.

We don't have a concept of badges.  If an app wants to get your attention,
it is does through the status bar / notification panel.

On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 1:36 PM, Neo <kataria.san...@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Is there a way to get list of applications installed so as to display
> the icon images on my custom home screen. Does Android support iphone
> like badge functionality - alerts displayed on application icon? If
> no, would it be possible to build something similar in theory.
>
> Thanks.
>
> >
>


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