How to hide an application icon in Android emulator?

Question

I have an application which launch automatically after the booting finished,but the application icon is displayed in the android emulator.Now i want to hide that icon from the user.So that the user cannot know from the application is lanuch and they cannot launch that application manually.

Answer 1

"In your AndroidManifest.xml file you probably have a line that says

<category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />

This line tells ANdroid that it "Should be displayed in the top-level launcher." Remove that line and you should be set.