Implement a "Car Home"-like launcher menu in your own application
Recently - as I bought a Google Nexus S some time ago - I started taking a look into development of applications for the Android platform. After some experiments with the general hardware features like the accelerometer and others, I have implemented a class that may be useful for others, too.
One thing I like on the Nexus is the "Car Home" app made by Google. While driving, it provides you a very simple interface with large buttons in order to trigger different actions. Although you can create shortcuts with it, I thought it might be even better if you could have this launcher menu in the app itself that your are developing.
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