Determine if Android app is being used for the first time

Question

I am currently developing an android app. I need to do something when the app is launched for the first time, i.e. the code only runs on the first time the program is launch

Answer 1

There is support for just this in the support library revision 23.3.0 (in the v4 which means compability back to Android 1.6).

In your Launcher activity, first call:

AppLaunchChecker.onActivityCreate(activity);

Then call:

AppLaunchChecker.hasStartedFromLauncher(activity);

Which will return if this was the first time the app was launched.