Home is an application like any other, it does not notify other apps about when it comes to the front.
On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 3:09 PM, sherry<[email protected]> wrote: > > my app would like to know if the phone or emulator's HOME screen is > displayed either by a way to detect (check some status or so) or > someone notify me (notification to interested parties). > > In BREW, registered apps used to receive notifications if the HOME > (idle) screen is displayed. Based on that, apps may act differently. > > Cheers, > > Sherry > > On Jun 5, 2:10 pm, Max Salley <[email protected]> wrote: >> What do you mean by 'detect home screen'? >> >> On Jun 5, 2:18 pm, sherry <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > I've asked "how to detect home screen" before. I'm still searching... >> >> > I noticed when I press "home" button on Android emulator, I got this >> > statement in catlog: >> >> > INFO/ActivityManager(584): >> > Starting activity: Intent { action=android.intent.action.MAIN >> > categories={android.intent.category.HOME} flags=0x10200000 comp= >> > {com.android.launcher/com.android.launcher.Launcher} } >> >> > so I went to ActivityManager to see if I can find a clue there. Here >> > is my findings: >> >> > 1. I can not instantiate ActivityManager because it's constructor is >> > not public, and it's not a singleton >> > 2. it has a function called: getRunningAppProcesses sounds promising >> > -- would it give me all the running processes? >> > 3. since I can not instantiate ActivityManager I tried to use one of >> > the derived class: RunningAppProcesseInfo to see if I can use it's >> > parent methods: getRunningAppProcesses. Nope. >> >> > Am I on the right track or totally lost? >> >> > Thanks, >> >> > Sherry > > > -- Romain Guy Android framework engineer [email protected] Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support. 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
