Dianne,

Firstly, many thanks for your reply!

> (1) This is a debugging feature, not something to turn on for normal
> production.
I understand this.

> (2) It doesn't finish the activity; it destroys the current instance, which
> will thus needed to be re-instantiated the next time the user navigates to
> it (thus providing a way to test the state save/restore mechanism of
> activities).
thank you for pointing out the difference; I probably was expecting
"finishing the activity" and "destroying the instance" to mean the
same thing.

> (3) There isn't a taboo about actually finishing an activity when it becomes
> invisible...  if that is the user interaction you want, go for it I guess,
> though it might be a bit weird.  (But finishing an activity after starting
> another one, effectively making it disappear after the user leaves it, is a
> very common and useful pattern.)
I believe you :)

> No users should EVER have this turned on.  And I believe this is an
> unprotected system setting so it would be possible for an application to
> turn it on...  but dear ghod do not do that, and the instance we hear about
> any app doing that we will need to do something to prevent it.  This is not
> at all, ever, ever, something you should be running a device with for normal
> usage.
thanks for the warning;

cheers!

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