Help Customize the double-tap Home button? And the Camera button?

mptpro · Apr 4, 2010

IS it possible to customize the double-tap home button, beyond the built in selections?

Also, is it possible to customize the camera button to something else?

thanjks.

rbrown1988 · Apr 6, 2010

you can change the double tap home key by going into settings then applications then it will be the last option. not sure on the camera button

mptpro · Apr 6, 2010

Thanks.

I realize I can edit the double-tap-home, but only to the selections provided. I want to cutomize to an app, such as Evernote.

rob41195 · Apr 10, 2010

Right now it is not possible to customiz the double-tap-home button further than what is allowed in the settings menu. But the camera button can be customized. I have downloaded the Ultimate Faves PRO app for my device. This is a carasoul type app the allows you to select a number of apps and put them onto a "merry-go-round" type thing. Using this app you can have it open up by default from simply touching the app's icon. Also in this app's settings you can customize it to open up by pressing and holding the camera button. hope this helps

Wug · Oct 25, 2010

I figured out a solution to this problem which I posted here

Hope that helps.

-Wug Fresh

eatsleeplaxsoccer3 · Feb 22, 2012

Ok so I got sqlite editor and found the double tap location.
I would like double tapping home to go to google voice (this is what I had my camera button on my og droid go to and I miss it)
it says the format of the value needs to be appname/activity
I know the app name for google voice is com.google.android.apps.googlevoice but how do I find out what the activity name is for just starting google voice?

eatsleeplaxsoccer3 · Feb 29, 2012

I got it!
So others know
for Google Voice, the startup activity is
com.google.android.apps.googlevoice.SplashActivity
so if you want google voice to open when you double tap home, modify the double tap entry in SQLLite to com.google.android.apps.googlevoice/com.google.android.apps.googlevoice.SplashActivity
if you need to find the startup activity for something in general (evernote), open up the androidmanifest.xml (open the .apk with winzip or something, you don't need a full decompiler)
and look for an activity with the category main or launcher
<activity android:theme="@style/TranslucentThemeNoActionBar" android:label="@string/app_icon_name" android:name=".SplashActivity" android:configChanges="keyboard|keyboardHidden|ori entation|screenSize">

<intent-filter>

</intent-filter>

</activity>

eatsleeplaxsoccer3 · Feb 29, 2012

mptpro said:
Thanks.

I realize I can edit the double-tap-home, but only to the selections provided. I want to cutomize to an app, such as Evernote.

I checked out evernote for you
you would put
com.evernote/com.evernote.ui.HomeActivity
in the doubletap field

Styrisvps · Mar 9, 2012

I would like the double tap to launch google voice
how do I figure out what the name of the startup activity is?
I know the app is com.google.android.apps.googlevoice and I've guessed some generic activity names like com.google.android.apps.googlevoice.GoogleVoice but no luck so far

eatsleeplaxsoccer3 · Mar 9, 2012

Dude, look up two posts

eatsleeplaxsoccer3 said:
so if you want google voice to open when you double tap home, modify the double tap entry in SQLLite to com.google.android.apps.googlevoice/com.google.android.apps.googlevoice.SplashActivity

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