Intent to start All Apps activity

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How to Launch Home Screen Programmatically in Android

Is there an Intent I can prepare that will start the "All Apps" activity (aka app launcher)?

I looked in LogCat and ActivityManager isn't logging an Intent when I click on the icon from the home screen.

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 18 '12 at 17:05

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I hope this is what you want.

   Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_MAIN);
   intent.addCategory(Intent.CATEGORY_LAUNCHER);

answered Sep 18 '12 at 17:05

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score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 18 '12 at 17:28

Looking at some copies of the Launcher, it doesn't look like there is an Intent you can use to open the default app launcher directly. You can see one copy of the source at https://github.com/cscott/android-launcher2/blob/master/src/com/android/launcher2/Launcher.java: the reference code is at https://android.googlesource.com/platform/packages/apps/Launcher2, but doesn't have the convenient browsing interface any more.

There is an mAllAppsButton that shows the app selection screen, but it doesn't appear to be tied to any Intent, just to an internal click handler. You may be out of luck.

I had assumed there was no Intent for it, especially since OEM's can create their own Launcher activity. — Andrew Lawton, Sep 18 '12 at 20:07

Intent to start All Apps activity

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