Developing Android on Android

Application Launcher

The Application Launcher will provide us with a row of icons that will be displayed onscreen. We can launch this application either via a Tasker widget or, the way I prefer, using a gesture courtesy of Nova Launcher Prime’s gesture assignment options. The icon toolbar features icons assigned to run some of the projects we have created in earlier chapters. As our task library grows, we can use this custom icon-centric app-launching program to help organize and categorize the expanding variety of custom tasks we build.

To get started, we are going to use Tasker’s Scene Designer to build the user interface and create a layout to place task-centric icons. Using the icons that were assigned earlier to each task, we can first ...