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I can get the sample APK CompassActivity app to run on Glass but no luck with LevelActivity or StopWatchActivity? I am using Eclipse. Log below. Any suggestions?

[2013-07-29 17:02:18 - LevelActivity] ------------------------------
[2013-07-29 17:02:18 - LevelActivity] Android Launch!
[2013-07-29 17:02:18 - LevelActivity] adb is running normally.
[2013-07-29 17:02:18 - LevelActivity] No Launcher activity found!
[2013-07-29 17:02:18 - LevelActivity] The launch will only sync the application package on the device!
[2013-07-29 17:02:18 - LevelActivity] Performing sync
[2013-07-29 17:02:28 - LevelActivity] Uploading LevelActivity.apk onto device '015DA7720F00D016'
[2013-07-29 17:02:28 - LevelActivity] Installing LevelActivity.apk...
[2013-07-29 17:02:29 - LevelActivity] Success!
[2013-07-29 17:02:29 - LevelActivity] /LevelActivity/bin/LevelActivity.apk installed on device
[2013-07-29 17:02:29 - LevelActivity] Done!

Solution

  • Go to Run > Run Configurations. Then, under Launch Action, change it from Launch Default Activity to Launch: and select the activity listed in the dropdown (e.g.com.google.glass.samples.stopwatch.StopWatchActivity). Hit Apply and try running the APK again.

    The reason you have to do this is because the main activity for the sample code does not have <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" /> in its <intent-filter>. Not having a launcher is intentional: there was a pull request on one of the APK GitHub samples in the past and the response was:

    Thank you for the pull request; however, Glassware will not be launched in this fashion.