Launch “launcher app drawer” from an application?

Question

I would like to launch (or go back) from an application to the launcher app drawer with the tiled app icons, not to the desktop.

Intent intent = new Intent("android.intent.action.MAIN");
intent.setComponent(new ComponentName("com.android.launcher","com.android.launcher2.Launcher"));
intent.addCategory("android.intent.category.LAUNCHER");
startActivity(intent);

This code "launches" the desktop. I would like to reach the app icons. How can I achieve that? TheManifest of Launcher doesn't seem to give any activity for this?

Gregoire

Answer 1

As pointed out by aneal, you can't call this view as it's not exposed by Android in the launcher app manifest.