app icon

If you want to enable the Android activity icon (app icon) in your application's ActionBar so users can tap the icon to go to the home screen, here are my notes on how to do this.

Enabling the ActionBar activity icon to handle the home button tap is a simple, three step process:

Step 1

In Step 1, add a line like this to your app's AndroidManifest.xml file:

In Part 1 of this tutorial I shared the Java source code you need to handle drag and drop events on Mac OS X. But as I mentioned in that tutorial, the recipe to handle files that are dropped onto your Dock application icon requires a little more work, in particular an Ant build process that uses the JarBundler task. So here in Part 2 of this tutorial, I'm sharing my Ant build script that completes this recipe.