.apk installed on Android but cannot be found anywhere!

Question

I have developed two small applications for Android using Eclipse. Then i ran them both on the phone by right-clicking on the project and "run as android application", and they were successfully tested. However, when i try to install their .apk files, one of them appears in the list, while the other does not appear. I checked the application manager and it shows that the application is saved. I tried to find it using the "search" in the phone, it can find all saved .apk except this one.

Pls do you have any idea where did i go wrong especially that it seems saved, and only this application does not appear in the phone although the application manager says it is installed.

Answer 1

Found out why this was happening. You need this in your AndroidManifest as a part of your main activity.

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

My mistake was that I used <action android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER"/> instead of <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER"/>. Without the category.LAUNCHER, you're not telling it to list the software in the application launcher, so it becomes invisible.