Read up a bit about the lifecycle of apps... http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/fundamentals.html#actlife
Pressing home does not shut down your app.... It causes Android to pause it. Then when you launch it again the default behavior is to then resume the app where it left off. You can change the bevavior of this with different settings in the manifest file... I think you would be interested in either the finishOnTaskLaunch or launchMode options (or both)... http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/manifest/activity-element.html Hope that helps, Justin ---------------------------------------------------------------------- There are only 10 types of people in the world... Those who know binary and those who don't. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 8:04 PM, Alexander Paschenko < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi all. > I'm experiencing kind of strange behavior of my application after hard > Home button is pressed. > When you press Home, everything is OK - my app goes to the background, > showing Home screen. But if you try to choose my app in the main menu > or in the list of last tasks it behaves like it was not started before > and does not show the last activity you were on - it just starts from > scratch, namely, shows the splash screen and . Moreover, old > activities of this app remain on the activities stack, and previous > instance of the app is not terminated - so if you press Back for a few > times you'll just run into those activities which were undoubtedly > started during the previous session of work with my app. Splash screen > is filtered by "android.intent.action.MAIN" filter and > "android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" category. > The strange thing is that all of that happens despite the fact that I > do not intercept any Back key hits, or override any onPause or > onResume methods. What's happening contradicts with my understanding > of Android app lifecycle - I was sure that when you hit Home an app > just goes to the background, and when you choose it in the menu later > - it just unwinds and does not start anew. (Of course, unless stuff > like that is stated in the app manifest or corresponding methods are > overridden or something else). > I hope you will be able to help me. Any advice on what to pay > attention to or where to search for solution would be really great. > > Regards, Alex > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Android Beginners" group. > > NEW! Try asking and tagging your question on Stack Overflow at > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/android > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<android-beginners%[email protected]> > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/android-beginners?hl=en > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Beginners" group. NEW! Try asking and tagging your question on Stack Overflow at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/android To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-beginners?hl=en
