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Cardboard VR Projects for Android

You're reading from   Cardboard VR Projects for Android Develop mobile virtual reality apps using the native Google Cardboard SDK for Android

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2016
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ISBN-13 9781785887871
Length 386 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Virtual Reality for Everyone FREE CHAPTER 2. The Skeleton Cardboard Project 3. Cardboard Box 4. Launcher Lobby 5. RenderBox Engine 6. Solar System 7. 360-Degree Gallery 8. 3D Model Viewer 9. Music Visualizer Index

Listing installed Cardboard apps


If you haven't forgotten, the purpose of this LauncherLobby app is to show a list of Cardboard apps on the device and let the user pick one to launch it.

If you like what we've built so far, you may want to save a copy for future reference. The changes we're going to make next will significantly modify the code to support a list of views as shortcuts to your apps.

We're going to replace the addContent method with addShortcut and the imageView and textView variables with a list of shortcuts. Each shortcut consists of an ImageView and a TextView to display the shortcut, as well as an ActivityInfo object for the purpose of launching the app. The shortcut images and text will appear on top of each other, as shown earlier, and will be arranged horizontally in a line, a fixed distance apart.

Queries for Cardboard apps

First, let's get the list of Cardboard apps installed on the device. At the end of the onCreate method of MainActivity, add a call to a new method, getAppList...

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