[android-developers] Re: The app icon disappears on app upgrade on Nexus devices (4.2.2)

Alright. We renamed the main acitvity back to what it was and it's mostly fixed itself. We left the new design icon in there and only on Nexus 10 4.2.2 we still see the old icon for some time after update but at least there is an icon and we can live with that. All other Nexus devices update as expected now. 

By the way thank you RichardC for the article. Just read it. Indeed we broke the rule 

"If the name of a main activity of your application is changed, any shortcuts the user made to it will no longer work. A shortcut is an Intent that directly specifies the ComponentName it should run.".  In this case the OS Launcher being the user.

Case closed.

On Tuesday, April 23, 2013 8:03:48 AM UTC-7, RichardC wrote:

Read the "Things That Cannot Change" article by Dianne Hackborn - I think you may have broken some of the assumptions:

http://android-developers.blogspot.co.uk/2011/06/things-that-cannot-change.html

On Tuesday, April 23, 2013 7:52:50 AM UTC+1, Andrei Ponomarenko wrote:

The problem happens only on 4.2.x devices. After the upgrade of our app the app launcher icon is invisible. It flashes for a split second during the upgrade (adb install -r NewVersion.apk) but then removed.

If I force stop the Launcher it appears. It also appears on it's own after a long time - a few hours. Obviously it is not acceptable for user installations. Fresh installation doesn't have this problem.

What could have possibly caused it - we have renamed the main activity of our product and changed the icon, but we are not sure is this really the reason. Like I mentioned it wasn't the problem at all until 4.2.2 came along. Any suggestion on what can be done in the project to make the new icon show up right away is very welcome. 

Regards,

Andrei

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