I think that I've found the problem I am having with AccountManager
that I described in an earlier thread that got no responses on the
board.

I think it is a problem with the way that the Activity Stack is
working during the OAUTH workflow. Here's the workflow as I see it. I
found this problem by separating out my Activity, which I'll call M,
from the oauth Activity, which I'll call O. In the course of
authentication, the web browser is invoked and let's call that B.

When a user needs to start over with authentication, my application,
through Activity M, starts Activity O. That, in turn, generates some
magic URL that is sent to the web browser. So the browser is fired up
and information was sent to the OAUTH provider to do a redirect back
through the browser back to Activity O.

So, this how the OAUTH workflow looks up to the browser:

M -> O -> B

At this point the user logs in and hits the Accept button and the
browser then invokes my BROWSABLE activity, which, again, is O. I had
thought this would unwind the above stack, but it seems that above
situation disappears and what I have after the user hits Accept in the
browser is this:

B -> O

What I did to work around that is that I put a startActity(M) in O and
that seems to work, but it is a workaround.

I believe there is something that I could do with launch modes or
activity modes to fix this problem and maintain the original activity
stack.

All that is happening, really, is that the O activity pauses for
little while, then comes back with the goods, the login credentials.
But when I tried to return the information via startActivityForResult
(), nothing. Because M is no longer on the Activity Stack.

Can someone enlighten me here, please?

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