AppLaunchChecker

Added in 1.1.0

public class AppLaunchChecker


This class provides APIs for determining how an app has been launched. This can be useful if you want to confirm that a user has launched your app through its front door activity from their launcher/home screen, rather than just if the app has been opened in the past in order to view a link, open a document or perform some other service for other apps on the device.

Summary

Public constructors

This method is deprecated.

This type should not be instantiated as it contains only static methods.

Public methods

static boolean

Checks if this app has been launched by the user from their launcher or home screen since it was installed.

static void

Records the parameters of an activity's launch for later use by the other methods available on this class.

Public constructors

AppLaunchChecker

Added in 1.1.0
Deprecated in 1.1.0
public AppLaunchChecker()

Public methods

hasStartedFromLauncher

Added in 1.1.0
public static boolean hasStartedFromLauncher(@NonNull Context context)

Checks if this app has been launched by the user from their launcher or home screen since it was installed.

To track this state properly you must call onActivityCreate in your launcher activity's onCreate method.

Parameters
@NonNull Context context

Context to check

Returns
boolean

true if this app has been started by the user from the launcher at least once

onActivityCreate

Added in 1.1.0
public static void onActivityCreate(@NonNull Activity activity)

Records the parameters of an activity's launch for later use by the other methods available on this class.

Your app should call this method in your launcher activity's onCreate method to track launch state. If the app targets API 23 (Android 6.0 Marshmallow) or later, this state will be eligible for full data backup and may be restored to the user's device automatically.

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Parameters
@NonNull Activity activity

the Activity currently running onCreate