Is it possible by using different activity attributes to:

-Have the app launch from the last activity IF the process of the app
has not being killed

The issue is that the info that the app needs is downloaded and parsed
at the entry point of the app, then depending of where you go it
downloads more data, so if the app tries to launch an activity that
does not have the info it needs to display... I would like to keep the
activity available but only for as long as the process is active.

Thanks a lot, im playing around with the attributes but no luck yet.

Alberto

On Sep 24, 12:49 am, Dianne Hackborn <hack...@android.com> wrote:
> What you are seeing is the normal user interaction.  The user is not aware
> the process has been killed, so they expect to return to the app in the way
> they last saw it.
>
> alwaysRetainTaskState is a totally separate thing, and allows you to turn
> off a facility where if the user hasn't been in your app for a while, upon
> returning to it its task can be reset.  This is independent of whether or
> not its process needs to be restarted.
>
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 8:22 AM, Albert <albert8...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> > It looks like attribute this could solve the issue:
>
> > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
> > ---------------------------------
> > android:alwaysRetainTaskState
>
> > Whether or not the state of the task that the activity is in will
> > always be maintained by the system — "true" if it will be, and "false"
> > if the system is allowed to reset the task to its initial state in
> > certain situations. The default value is "false". This attribute is
> > meaningful only for the root activity of a task; it's ignored for all
> > other activities.
> > Normally, the system clears a task (removes all activities from the
> > stack above the root activity) in certain situations when the user re-
> > selects that task from the home screen. Typically, this is done if the
> > user hasn't visited the task for a certain amount of time, such as 30
> > minutes.
> > However, when this attribute is "true", users will always return to
> > the task in its last state, regardless of how they get there. This is
> > useful, for example, in an application like the web browser where
> > there is a lot of state (such as multiple open tabs) that users would
> > not like to lose.
>
> > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
> > ------------------------
>
> > I will try it and post back the results.
>
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