Re: [android-developers] Re: How to close an activity when the user clicks on home button

2010-02-20 Thread Mark Murphy
Achanta wrote: But since I started trying to log everything to see the activity life cycle, what I observed is that onStop method is not actually being called when I click on home button. :: blink, blink :: Its being called as soon as i open my app again, which is not how I wanted it to

[android-developers] Re: How to close an activity when the user clicks on home button

2010-02-20 Thread intbt
it may be as simple as adding android:clearTaskOnLaunch=true in your Manifest under the main activity tag to re-initialize after returning to Home screen. intbt On Feb 20, 4:54 am, Mark Murphy mmur...@commonsware.com wrote: Achanta wrote: But since I started trying to log everything to

[android-developers] Re: How to close an activity when the user clicks on home button

2010-02-20 Thread Achanta
I just tried it on an app I'm working on (Android 2.1), and onStop() was called at the point I pressed the HOME button. I am using Android 1.6 as I need to support all the phones which are working on that version also. And in this version or atleast for my situation its not working so. Are

[android-developers] Re: How to close an activity when the user clicks on home button

2010-02-20 Thread Achanta
Thankyou, I needed finishTaskonLaunch as that is more suitable than clearTaskOnLaunch for my case as I need to close the activity itself which I am opening in a separate task. On Feb 20, 10:56 am, intbt in...@tacberry.com wrote: it may be as simple as adding android:clearTaskOnLaunch=true

[android-developers] Re: How to close an activity when the user clicks on home button

2010-02-19 Thread Achanta
Thank you Mark, I do know that I can you onStop method as it is supposed to be called when ever something else comes on to the screen (in this case the home page). But my situation is a little more complicated than that. I have an address field and an option for gps[if its switched on]. But in