Making Android home app (launcher) in Unity

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Hi,

I am just starting with Unity and exploring if it is possible to make something like an Android home app that can show the icons (in a grid view) of all the installed apps. So I was just wondering if there is a concept of something like Android’s adapter that can be assigned to a grid view. If yes, do you know of any such project that I can download from the Asset store?

Thank you.

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An android launcher app is just a regular app that get launch when the home button is pressed.

By simply adding the following into the intent filter of your android manifest will launch the app
when user press home button

            <category android:name="android.intent.category.HOME" />
            <category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" />

You can see more info by searching for android launcher tutorials, such as the following:

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It’s a game engine so no. There is an asset that exposes the android API but for launchers you’ll have to go with native code in java. Just search for how to create a custom android launcher and info will appear.