I noticed the Photostream app has alias activities.
(This comment is in androidmanifest.xml)
<!-- Alias activity used to set the wallpaper on Home. The alias is
used
simply to have a different label. -->
http://code.google.com/p/apps-for-android/source/browse/trunk/#trunk/Photostream
- Juan
On Oct 12, 11:31 am, Anm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The AliasActivity looks interesting, as a way to redirect a user to
> another activity/intent under a different name. I can see this being
> used to put a launcher icon to a document/url. But I don't see any
> examples of it, or documentation of the XML to configure it. (From
> the docs: "To use this activity, you should include in the manifest
> for the associated component an entry named "android.app.alias". It is
> a reference to an XML resource describing an intent that launches the
> real application. ")
>
> Does anyone have any pointers?
>
> Secondly, I think I want to make a something that acts similar to the
> AliasActivity as my app's entry point, but redirects to the most
> recently used activity. Calling startActivity() followed by finish()
> still invokes the activity after returning from the child activity
> (its still on the activity stack, despite the finish() call), leading
> to a loop that re-enters the child. What should I be doing instead?
> (I.e., What does AliasActivity do?)
>
> Anxiously awaiting the sources so I can answer these types of
> questions on my own.
>
> Anm
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