My app isn't appearing in my app drawer even though it has installed

Question

Why won't the app appear in the app drawer? It says in the App Manager that it is installed but I can't seem to open the actual app as it isn't in the app drawer. It doesn't automatically open it up once it's installed either.

Here is what is said when I choose to run on my phone (which is on Jellybean). It says the same thing when I install it to an emulator.

    [2012-09-19 16:20:24 - TheForeverAloneQuiz] Performing sync
    [2012-09-19 16:20:24 - TheForeverAloneQuiz] Automatic Target Mode: Several compatible targets. Please select a target device.
    [2012-09-19 16:20:28 - TheForeverAloneQuiz] Uploading TheForeverAloneQuiz.apk onto device '001988a8094d8e'
    [2012-09-19 16:20:28 - TheForeverAloneQuiz] Installing TheForeverAloneQuiz.apk...
    [2012-09-19 16:20:31 - TheForeverAloneQuiz] Success!
    [2012-09-19 16:20:31 - TheForeverAloneQuiz] /TheForeverAloneQuiz/bin/TheForeverAloneQuiz.apk installed on device
    [2012-09-19 16:20:31 - TheForeverAloneQuiz] Done!

Here's the android manifest.

<manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    package="com.mikenning.foreveralonequiz"
    android:versionCode="1"
    android:versionName="1.0" >

    <uses-sdk
        android:minSdkVersion="8"
        android:targetSdkVersion="15" />

    <application
        android:icon="@drawable/ic_launcher"
        android:label="@string/app_name"
        android:theme="@android:style/Theme.Light.NoTitleBar" >
        <activity
            android:name=".Introduction"
            android:label="@string/title_activity_introduction" >
            <intent-filter>
                <action android:name="android.intent.action.INTRO" />

                <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
            </intent-filter>
        </activity>
        <activity
            android:name=".QuestionOne"
            android:label="@string/title_activity_introduction" >
            <intent-filter>
                <action android:name="android.intent.action.QUESTIONONE" />

                <category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" />
            </intent-filter>
        </activity>
        <activity
            android:name=".Result"
            android:label="@string/title_activity_introduction" >
            <intent-filter>
                <action android:name="android.intent.action.RESULTS" />

                <category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" />         
            </intent-filter>
        </activity>
    </application>

</manifest>

Anything I'm doing wrong?

SIDENOTE I also get errors saying that I do not need permission for the activities categorised as 'DEFAULT'. Could this be to do with it? I need it for the startActivity() in one of my clases so is it really not required?

Answer 1

I'm assuming that introduction is your first Activity. You need to add another action to it, like in the following code:

    <activity
        android:name=".Introduction"
        android:label="@string/title_activity_introduction" >
        <intent-filter>
            <action android:name="android.intent.action.INTRO" />
            <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />
            <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
        </intent-filter>
    </activity>

Answer 2

I know it is solved question, but this solution did not work for me and I wanted to share my solution here.

I was trying to add deep link support to my app, And in the documentation the

<intent-filter android:label="@string/filter_view_http_gizmos">
        <action android:name="android.intent.action.VIEW" />
        <category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" />
        <category android:name="android.intent.category.BROWSABLE" />
        <data android:scheme="gizmosexample"/>
</intent-filter>

I added those intent filters to my launcher activity and after app drawer stopped showing the app icon in the launcher.

So if @RaghavSood's solution above did not work, try to remove those filters or any other custom filters from the launcher activity's filters.