Duplicated apps installed by Android Studio

Question

I have an app X that has two activities X and F that appear in the drawer. I also use X as a library for another app A , that also has two activities that appear in the drawer, A and M .

So, what I've always done in Eclipse to install them was:

1. Clean both packages
2. Install A .
3. Go to Project > Properties > Android , disabling in Is Library .
4. Install X
5. Enable again Is Library for X .

With this procedure, I always ended up with the 4 activities in the drawer.

Now, I'm trying to migrate to Android Studio. I created a project and imported both apps as modules. Now to install them:

I repeated the above procedure, but editing the first line of the build.gradle file of X instead of (3) and (5) above. Kind of a pain, but it works... except for a very strange problem: I end up with TWO A activities and TWO F activities in the drawer (yes, same names!), plus M and X , now I have 6 instead of 4. The two A activities, the M and one F belong to A , while X and F to X (as it has always been).

Even more crazy stuff: one of the A does not work properly, while the other does. In the app manager there is only one copy of A and another of X , as it has always been.

Why is this?? What I am doing wrong? How can A have installed two copies of itself??? Or maybe this is a bug of Nova launcher? (rooted stock Android 4.4 here).

Thanks!

L.

Answer 1

This can happen if you have multiple activities specified as launcher activities. Please run app after making sure that only one activity is specified as launcher in manifest.