I've never seen this. If it fails to start, i get a logcat message and an exception is thrown (and you are catching that). Have you tried to set the Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK flag when starting the activity?
On Friday, March 29, 2013 6:40:44 PM UTC-4, plnelson wrote: > > > > On Friday, March 29, 2013 5:57:46 PM UTC-4, Streets Of Boston wrote: >> >> Look at your logcat and see why your activity can't be started. Could be >> as simple as a typo in your manifest. > > > I only see things in LogCat about DGraphActivity when it *does* start > (ie., when its launchMode is "singleInstance"). Are you saying there > should be a message that it failed to start (or failed to be created)? I > run Logcat with no filters and in verbose mode so I think I'm seeing > everything there is. > > The manifest is exactly as it's shown - the *only* difference between the > successful case and the failing case is the launchMode, so if there was a > typo it would have to be unique to that line. Furthermore it only works > for singleInstance, it fails for standard, singleTop and singleTask, so if > there was a typo it would have to be in all three of those but not in the > singleInstance case. > > > RichardC wrote > Technically it needs a "." here: > > <activity android:name=".DGraphActivity" > > I'm skeptical. My program has about 20 Activities and none of them have > .'s in front of the name and I've written a lot of other Android programs > without .'s. And this works fine without the "." if I launch it in > singleInstance. From time to time I have heard people mention "."'s > in the Manifest so I don't know if that used to be a requirement in the > early days or what. Just for yucks I tried putting the "." in and it > didn't help. > -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
