how to stop android things app on raspberry pi 3 and start another activity

Question

I develop my first android things app from the "https://developer.android.com/things/training/first-device/peripherals.html#handle_button_events" site. And deploy it on raspberry pi 3 (booted up on version 4.1).

The easily deploy on raspberry pi 3 and give me blinking Led too.

But now i don't know how to stop it, and make changes or start some other project.

It contineously blinking and i don't know how to stop it.

In my android studio when i press the start button, then it display the connected devices menu in which it says that raspberry pi is offline. Like this

Answer 1

This is happening because you have set the application as your default start-up application. Thus it will load as soon as you switch on your Android Thing device. To overcome this one solution is to simply uninstall the current package remotely using command:

adb uninstall pkg-name

or by using below command and manually uninstalling it:

adb shell am start -a android.settings.SETTINGS

If you are in debugging phase, better goto manifest file and replace following lines :

    <intent-filter>
        <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN"/>
        <category android:name="android.intent.category.IOT_LAUNCHER"/>
        <category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT"/>
    </intent-filter>

with:

    <intent-filter>
        <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN"/>
        <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER"/>
    </intent-filter>

Doing this will prevent from making the application as your default boot up application

Update 1: IOT_LAUNCHER is deprecated and should be replaced with HOME