Questions tagged [launch]
The definition of a launch is an event at which something, such as an application/program is started.
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How to detect first time app launch on an iPhone
How can I detect the very first time launch of
- (BOOL)application:(UIApplication *)application didFinishLaunchingWithOptions:(NSDictionary *)launchOptions
{
// if very first launch than perform ...
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Android Respond To URL in Intent
I want my intent to be launched when the user goes to a certain url: for example, the android market does this with http://market.android.com/ urls. so does youtube. I want mine to do that too.
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How can I launch Safari from an iPhone app?
This might be a rather obvious question, but can you launch the Safari browser from an iPhone app?
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Android singleTask or singleInstance launch mode? [closed]
I have an app that has a list as its main activity and then you can click items which opens a detailed view of that item. I also have a search activity that is similar to the main activity and works ...
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Xcode 4 Error: Error Starting Executable
I ran into problem with testing my app on iOS and Xcode when I am uploading it to my actual devices (iphone and iPad), and I'm wondering if someone knows the issue and can help me out:
Normally when ...
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Determine if an app exists and launch that app on iOS
Is there a way to check iOS to see if another app has been installed and then launched? If memory serves me this was not possible in early versions but has this been changed?
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How to open the command prompt and insert commands using Java?
Is it possible to open the command prompt (and I guess any other terminal for other systems), and execute commands in the newly opened window?
Currently what I have is this:
Runtime rt = Runtime....
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Eclipse shortcut to run a class
I have an Eclipse project where I often launch the same java class. I have added my run configuration to the favorites menu, but to launch it I still need to click on the run-drop-down menu and click ...
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How do I launch application one from another in C#?
I have two desktop applications. After closing the first application, the first application will start the second application.
How do I start the second application after finishing first application?...
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How do I run an Eclipse launcher file in IntelliJ IDEA?
I have a Eclipse .launch file that a developer has created to set up the classpath, vm and program arguments from a XML file that Eclipse uses to launch the program.
I want to be able to run this ...
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Android: Launch activity from clickable text
Is there any way I can launch an activity from a portion of a string.
eg
I have this in my strings.xml file:
<string name="clickable_string">This is a <u>clickable string</u></...
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How to detect whether an OS X application is already launched
Normally an application bundle on OS X can only be started once, however by simply copying the bundle the same application can be launched twice. What's the best strategy to detect and stop this ...
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Removing Launch Screen in Xcode 6.0
I've created a browser app, but every time it launches, the LaunchScreen.xib pops up first for a second or so. How can I stop this screen from appearing?
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How to change a referenced classprovider in Eclipse?
I uninstalled the maven plugin but when trying to run the project that was perfectly running before the plugin I have "Referenced classpath provider does not exist: org.maven.ide.eclipse.launchconfig....
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How do I start multiple main programs in a Java executable .jar?
I'm writing a program that contains multiple packages in it. Each package has its own main program that I want all to launch simultaneously when the .jar is executed by an interpreter. This seems like ...
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Launch JVM process from a Java application use Runtime.exec?
I want to be able to launch a Java server process from an existing java application and monitor the stdoutput and stderror and redirect that output to a file. Is the best approach to use 'Runtime....
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Windows terminal: open multiple panes and execute specified command
I recently downloaded the new Windows Terminal. I have created the shortcut for opening the multiple panes(which is working fine). However, I am trying to execute a command for the respective pane.
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Can I launch one app from other app on iPhone
I want to create app which have to launch another app and run some features in last.
I mean my app A call app B and run in B some method.
Can I do this?
I know that I want to use URL scheme, but ...
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Launching run configuration outside Eclipse IDE
I have a run configuration defined for my Eclipse RCP application which is saved to a .launch file. Is there a way to use this launch configuration outside the Eclipse IDE? i.e, it would be nice to be ...
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How to load all views in UITabBarController?
I have not found relevant and up to date answers in the posts related to this question.
I would like to load all viewcontrollers on launch. Currently it launches as expected but when I tap on a bar ...
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Use Python to launch Excel file
when i try
os.system("open " + 'myfile.xlsx')
i get the output '0'
similarly, trying
os.system("start excel.exe myfilepath")
gives the result 32512
I have imported os and system, and I'm on mac. ...
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UISplitViewController not showing popup button when launching portrait
I am doing an iPad app based on a UISplitViewController. I have a little problem with the toobar button when my app launched in potrait. The button to show the popover is not displayed.
However when ...
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How to detect Apps first launch in iOS?
I would like to display a welcome screen when a user opens my app for the first time. What method is there to check the first launch of an app in Swift?
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Prevent eclipse from building the projects before run an Ant task
I want to prevent the project from compiling when I run an Ant task, how is this done?
Eclipse build setting is not automatic but the build still remains running before any ant task be launched.
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Killing an unknown self restarting server on port 80 Mac OSX
I have a server running on port 80, but I do not know what it is or where it came from. When I run
sudo lsof -i :80 | grep LISTEN
I get
httpd 80 root 5u IPv6 0x91f5a9de62859cfd ...
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Why is my Eclipse launch configuration not being added to the Run or Debug configurations list?
I have a .launch file which I can run by context menu (Run As...), but it is not being added to the list of Debug or Run configurations like it should. Why not?
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Android - detecting application launch from home or history
What is the best way to detect when an Android "Application" has been launched from the Home screen/History screen?
Basically, what I'm trying to achieve is force the user to login to certain screens ...
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Difference between Launch Screen and Launch Image
What exactly is the difference between Launch Screen and Launch Image? I know what an Launch Screen is. When starting an app you see the Launch Screen while the app is loading. When app is loaded ...
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Launching Android Application from link or email
I have been trying to launch the application from a link on email or from a posting on some social networking websites. The problem is that in some device or some gmail application on the android don'...
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How to open external programs in Python
Duplicate edit: no, i did that but it doesnt want to launch firefox.
I am making a cortana/siri assistant thing, and I want it to lets say open a web browser when I say something. So I have done the ...
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How to launch app on click of url in android
Launch app when click on url if app installed on device. if app not installed on device, open playstore.
<activity android:name=".ui.NewsCardActivity">
<intent-filter>
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Eclipse Helios not launching
I have used Eclipse in the past without problems over a year ago, but I downloaded Helios onto a new computer having Windows Vista and Java 1.6.13 currently. I extract the folder and try to run the ...
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How to launch Telegram app from my own android application?
I have an android app that should be able to open a chat in the telegram app by pressing a button.
I want to open an existing robot chat page DIRECTLY from my app. I have a valid token for my robot. ...
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How to check first time app launch in Flutter
I am a beginner in a flutter, I have created my application but I want to check if the user opens the application for the first time after installing, I have seen this article but did not know how ...
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Launch app from link, if no app then go to download app from web
So I'm looking to launch a mobile app when a web page is landed on. I've seen this done and all is great there (see code below with Facebook and Pandora as an example). But I'm looking for a logic ...
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android - launch an activity of another app to get it's result
I have two applications, A and B.
From A, I'm launching B for a result, using the following code:
Intent fmIntent = getPackageManager().getLaunchIntentForPackage("com.example.B");
fmIntent.putExtra("...
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In Eclipse, how to have launch configurations relative to the project?
I usually have multiple copies of a project, for example: a copy of the trunk and another of the last release branch. To cleanly separate my project files from Eclipse, they are checked out from ...
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Launch JNLP file in MS Edge
I have a ASP.NET site which offers JNLP files for starting Java Web Start applications. I've set them as hrefs in <a> tags to download them. The behaviour I get from different browsers varies:
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How to check JRE version prior to launch?
What's the best way to determine if the version of the JRE installed on a machine is high enough for the application which the user wants to run? Is there a way of doing it using java-only stuff? I'd ...
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Launch image doesn't update
I'm using Xcode 4.3.1. Adding launch image is pretty simple -- just drag the image to the Project->Summary->Launch Images window.
So I set a launch image before and it worked. But when I dragged a ...
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XCTest UI Testing - How to close and open an app without relaunch?
I want to make my app to go to background, and then comeback to the foreground.
To make an app to go background: XCUIDevice.shared().press(XCUIDeviceButton.home)
To terminate an app(force tap): ...
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Launch Android SDK manager - Tools directory doesn't exist? Mac
I'm on mac, I think I've done everything right so far. following these instructions:
http://developer.android.com/sdk/installing/adding-packages.html
it says to navigate to tools/ directory in ...
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Private func didFinishLaunchingWithOptions not being called? (Swift 3)
Isn't didFinishLaunchingWithOptions supposed to be called when the app starts running for the first time? I set a breakpoint at this method and when I run the app in the simulator the breakpoint doesn'...
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Where are the external tools launch configurations in Eclipse [duplicate]
I usually install and uninstall different versions of Eclipse for fun. I don't want to install many plugins. I prefer to start with fresh install to test the IDE.
The problems comes when I have to ...
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Spyder 5 won't launch
I just downloaded Spyder 5 using
conda upgrade anaconda
conda install spyder=5.0.0
However, after installation when I launch Spyder from the Windows menu, I see a pop up indicating that Spyder 5 is ...
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How to run or start application inside the fragment of Android?
I want to launch any existing app of device inside a fragment.
Can anyone please help me how can I do this.
Thanks & BR,
Pawan
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XCode 6.0.1 - xmlParseEntityRef: no name on Launch Screen.xib
After adding a Launch Screen on my Project, XCode 6 immediately flags me with
Line 14: xmlParseEntityRef: no name
Everytime I choose the Launch Screen.xib, XCode notifies me of this issue.
I checked ...
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Filter out non-launchable apps when getting all installed apps
Im working on a app where I want to present the user with all installed apps and let him/her choose one and then do something with it. I followed a tutorial (this: http://impressive-artworx.de/2011/...
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Easiest way to launch webpage in android with an icon
We have a website that offers an e-mail service. We would like to create a fully fledged app for this but cannot afford this right now. In the mean time it would be great if we could give users an ...
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Is it possible to detect exit of an application?
My android application allows to launch other installed applications from this.This shows some allowed apps. If the user try to launch a disallowed application then show a message and go back to my ...
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