Joel, Set clearTaskOnLaunch for your Main activity:
http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/fundamentals.html#clearstack Note that launching for debugging can interfere with the task stack (that's my observation) - so to test this, make sure that the first time you launch the app, you do this from the list of installed applications. -- Kostya 2011/1/20 Joel <[email protected]> > Hi Android Developers, > > I would like to have users entering my application via my Main > Activity, from Android's menu, and from the Task Manager. Currently > all my Activities are in single instance mode, and all my Activities > have no history set to true except for the Main Activity. > > When users navigate away from my Main Activity into another activity, > and pressing the hardware Back button from the second Activity will > get them back to the Main Activity. > > However, when users navigate away from my Main Activity into another > activity, press the hardware Home button of the Android device to get > to Android's Home screen, access the Task Manager by holding the Home > button, and select my application from the grid of running Activities, > the application shows the second activity. If users press the hardware > Back button in the second Activity, they go to Android's Home screen > instead of Main Activity. > > Note that I did not call finish() on my Main Activity when launching > the second Activity. Also, launching the application from Android's > menu displays my desired behavior when my application is running, that > is to show the Main Activity. > > How could I achieve my expected behavior of closing all Activities > except for the Main Activity when I access my running application from > the Task Manager? > > Thanks. > > -- > 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]<android-developers%[email protected]> > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- 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] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en

