hello, i found the source of my troubles - it was to do with the manifest setting. i had set the "android:noHistory" attribute to true for the tab activity from which i launched the other activity.
lesson learnt :] On Jun 6, 1:25 am, Anirvan <[email protected]> wrote: > i have a tab layout. in one of the Activity's corresponding to a tab, > i use "startActivityForResult" to launch another activity to do > something. Once the tasks in the new activity are done, i invoke the > "finish()" method to return to the tab Activity which launched it. > > strangely enough, when the new activity is finished, instead of > showing the tab activity which launched it, the entire app simply > exits. in the tab activity class i've overriden the "onActivityResult" > method, and have a log statement right at the start. This log > statement does not get printed. > > so the gist of the problem is that when i launch an activity for > result, and then finish it, the control does not return back to the > activity which launched the other one - instead the app exits. > > is there some elementary mistake that i'm making here? > thanks for your time. -- 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
