Thank you for your answers. I can confirm webmonkeys experience.
Installing from eclipse -> starting -> pressing the back button -> starting again >From that point on the application saves the last opened activity. So this seems to be a bug caused by the installation through Eclipse right? Regards! On 25 Aug., 23:02, hackbod <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The behavior when running from eclipse is different than running it > normally. When you run from eclipse it may (perhaps always) install > the .apk on to the device, which means uninstalling the current .apk > and this clearing all previous app state. > > On Aug 25, 11:16 am, webmonkey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I got it to work now, but only when I do the following: > > > 1. I run my app in Eclipse using Run > Run History > myApp. The app > > opens up with the home activity > > 2. I hit the Back button. The Android home screen with the app menu is > > displayed > > 3. I start my app from the Android app menu. The app opens up with the > > home activity > > 4. From now on, it will work as expected so when I press Home in a > > 'secondary' activity and then restart my App again from the Android > > app menu it will go back to the 'secondary' activity. > > > Does this have something to do with the way Eclipse starts the > > application? Because if I don't run it from Eclipse it works. > > > On Aug 25, 6:58 pm, hackbod <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > If you hit back from the new home activity, do you see the previous > > > "secondary" activity? > > > > Could you please post more information about what you are doing? > > > Please note that this behaves correctly in other places, such as > > > ApiDemos, so there must be something different than normal that you > > > are doing. > > > > On Aug 25, 1:05 am, code_android_festival_way > > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Some information about my application (simplified): > > > > > startActivty (user can choose which kind of kontent he wants to post > > > > in his blog) -> some activity to input some data (let me call ist > > > > "content" activity) -> service gets started and does some work > > > > (posting the blogpost, working with some web apis) > > > > > What I actually wanted achieve is that when the user clicks on the > > > > Home button while he is at the "content" activity and restarts the > > > > application afterwards he should be brought back to the "content" > > > > activity. > > > > > At the moment the following happens regarding to tasks: > > > > > Starting the app: The first activty (MAIN) has Task ID 7 > > > > Starting another activity from my MAIN screen: The started activity > > > > has Task ID 7 > > > > Clicking the HOME button and restarting my application: MAIN activity > > > > gets started with Task ID 7 > > > > > So the application remains in the same task but doesn't get back to > > > > the last opened activity before leaving the app to the home screen. I > > > > have never set any flags like the two you mentioned above. > > > > > Do I have to control that by myself (monitoring where I am in the > > > > chain of activities that the user starts and restart the activity in > > > > my initial screen) or is there some flag? I can't find that out from > > > > the app model document. > > > > > Regards! > > > > > On 25 Aug., 09:16, hackbod <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > What are you actually trying to do? I doubt this parameter is what > > > > > you want -- it is used to defeat the default behavior of resetting an > > > > > application's task state after the device has been asleep for a > > > > > certain amount of time. That is, it will have -no- impact on the > > > > > behavior of your application unless you put the emulator to sleep for > > > > > that amount of time (I believe 30 minutes) and then launch it from > > > > > home. > > > > > > If you are -always- returning back the initial screen of your app when > > > > > returning from home, that indicates some other problem in how you have > > > > > structure your app. This might be useful information to help > > > > > understand what is going > > > > > on:http://code.google.com/android/intro/appmodel.html > > > > > > Some common things to watch out for: > > > > > > - Don't use android:singleTask (unless you understand what that is and > > > > > really actually do want everything it implies). > > > > > - Don't use Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK (unless you understand what > > > > > that is and really actually do want everything it implies). > > > > > > The above referenced doc has information on these as well. > > > > > > On Aug 22, 6:05 am, code_android_festival_way > > > > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > I came across the parameter "alwaysRetainTaskState" > > > > > > athttp://code.google.com/android/reference/android/R.attr.html#alwaysRe... > > > > > > and don't really know how to use it the right way. I've got several > > > > > > activities in my application and want to persist the state of my > > > > > > activity UI so that the user can press the home button and after > > > > > > starting my application again he will come back to the last opened > > > > > > activity. > > > > > > When I understand the parameter in the right way I think that he > > > > > > should do what I want. Now I've added the parameter to all > > > > > > activities > > > > > > in my AndroidManifest but after restarting my application from the > > > > > > home screen (after pressing the home button in my app) I'm always > > > > > > getting back to my initial screen. > > > > > > > Here is one sample from my AndroidManifest: > > > > > > > <activity android:name=".Preferences" > > > > > > android:alwaysRetainTaskState="true"> > > > > > > </activity> > > > > > > > What am I doing wrong? In addition I'd like to ask what state in > > > > > > detail will be presisted. 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