Don't use singleTask or singleInstance, because that will cause your overall activity flow to be broken up into separate tasks for each activity where this intermediate goes.
There really isn't a way to do exactly what you want. On Jun 24, 1:06 am, Gavin Bong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a need to intersperse the flow between one Activity to another > with an intermediate Activity. > > Let's call the intermediate activity INTERMEDIATE. > > So imagine my application having a normal activity flow like this: > > A -> B -> C -> D > > Now putting the intermediary activity into the flow, we get: > > A -> INTERMEDIATE -> B -> INTERMEDIATE -> C -> INTERMEDIATE -> D > > When the user presses the BACK button starting from D, it will go > directly to C. > i.e. the INTERMEDIATE activity only appears in the forward direction. > > Basically INTERMEDIATE will transition between foreground & background > many times > throughout the lifetime of the app. > > A summary of my requirements: > > 1) The INTERMEDIATE activity should NOT die unless the initial launch > activity A exits. > i.e. I only have an "exit" menu item in A. > > 2) I need to be able to change the contents displayed by INTERMEDIATE > during a transition. > i.e. From A -> B, I will need the properties of INTERMEDIATE: (2.1) > the displayed content. (2.2) the "next" activity to progress to > (activity B). This applies to the other forward transitions. > > My idea: > > 3) Store the "states" in a service. And in INTERMEDIATE's onResume() I > can query the service > for both (2.1) and (2.2) and change it accordingly. > 4) I still don't know which of the launch modes to use for > INTERMEDIATE. > Based on the docs; it's between singleTask and singleInstance. However > I don't understand the concept of "Tasks" as described in the doc: > > e.g. > > Only allow one instance of this activity to ever be running. This > activity gets a unique task with only itself running in it; if it is > ever launched again with the same Intent, then that task will be > brought forward and its onNewIntent(Intent) method called. If this > activity tries to start a new activity, that new activity will be > launched in a separate task. > > Any help would be much appreciated. > > Thanks > > Gavin --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Announcing the new M5 SDK! http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2008/02/android-sdk-m5-rc14-now-available.html For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
