Freeform Window Mode Not Launching Activities in Freeform Mode about taskbar HOT 5 CLOSED

When not set as the default launcher, the most reliable way to launch freeform windows is from your device's recent apps screen. Launching apps from the home screen (when Taskbar is not set as default) is hit-or-miss, for reasons unknown to me.

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OK, I can reproduce that behavior. It feels like the logic to decide what can start a freeform activity is checking to see what's in the foreground, and for some reason is not reliably determining that the home screen is in the foreground.

Thanks!

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FWIW, I tossed together another sample app applying your technique, using a notification shade tile instead of your overlay. Based on my experiments, it feels like the home screen works as a starting point if the activity had previously been launched freeform via the overview screen and that task is still outstanding. If no such previously-freeform task exists, the home screen launches the activity full-screen.

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I just tested out Freecar and it looks like it's able to consistently launch apps into freeform from the home screen. I'm thinking there's something on my end that's preventing Taskbar's start menu from reliably launching freeform windows from the home screen (I start an invisible activity whenever the start menu itself displays, I'm thinking that could be interfering).

I've already made changes to my code to allow for launching freeform windows form Taskbar's recent apps tray.

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OK, changes to the Taskbar code are now live (in the master branch), and the app should now reliably launch freeform windows from the homescreen. Note that if an app already has a fullscreen task entry in recents, that entry needs to be cleared before Taskbar can re-launch the app in freeform mode.

I appreciate your interest in this, Mark!

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