Drag and Drop icons to Home Screen

Question

Update: to understand my question, here is what i need to achieve: Drag icon from App drawer to home screen (if possible not in a gridview

Answer 1

Have a look at adding a view to the WindowManager(WM). When you long press on an item to be dragged, create your own bitmap of that item and add it to the WM, so that it can be moved without view boundary constraints. When you receive a ACTION_UP or an equivalent event, map your current x,y to the actual view that is directly below the dragged item (Rect classs might be helpful). You can then add this item to that particular view.