On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 4:14 PM, Indicator Veritatis <[email protected]>wrote:

> But you are wrong to deny the causal link between pressing Home and the
> lifecycle in turn causing onPause() and onStop() to be called. It is not
> only perfectly correct, but even important to understand the lifecycle as
> a more mediate sort of cause, the press of Home the more proximate, e.g.,
> the one as formal, the other as efficient cause.
>

True - indeed, in this case, it is precisely the press of the Home key that
triggers the lifecycle flow. I should have said "neither of those actions is
*uniquely triggered* due to HOME being pressed - *it would happen with any
other app coming to the foreground*"


> but coverage of these is where Bob M.'s post is particularly good, so I
> have nothing to add to that.
>

Who is Bob M.? I'm assuming you don't mean Bob
Marley<http://www.google.com/search?q=Bob+M>
.

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