It sounds like you would be better off looking at the desired behavior of your notification activity rather than your app. In particular, you can set it up to launch separately from the app, so pressing back will always return to what the user was previously doing. The app model doc should describe how to do this.
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 8:25 AM, Soonil Nagarkar <[email protected]> wrote: > > Giving this topic some life, is there any way to implement something > similar to finishOnTaskBackground? It is possible to reenter a task > that was previously in the background without going through the > launcher, in which case the desired behavior of finishing a task with > this flag does not happen. For instance, in my application, a user can > select an item to edit from a list. Suppose in the process of editing > this item, the user hits the home button taking them back to the home > screen. From the home screen, they use an intent associated with a > notification to reenter the task at the list of items. Here they can > delete an item from the list. Pressing the back button now will take > them to the previously opened activity which was editing the task > (which they may have just deleted) resulting in unexpected behavior > from the user's point of view. > > Is it possible to avoid this by setting some flags on either the > notification intent or the item list activity? > > On Dec 11, 10:00 pm, "Dianne Hackborn" <[email protected]> wrote: > > It was renamed to match the actual behavior. > > > > > > > > On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 3:04 PM, Adam K <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Does it do exactly the same thing? It sounds to me like > finishOnTaskLaunch > > > finishes an activity when it is relaunched from the homescreen - what I > > > wanted to do is have an activity finish when it goes to the background. > Or > > > would this be identical as calling finish() in the onPause() method? > > > > > On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 5:16 PM, Dianne Hackborn <[email protected] > >wrote: > > > > >> Yes the documentation is out of date, it got renamed to > > >> finishOnTaskLaunch. > > > > >> On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 7:57 AM, Adam K <[email protected] > >wrote: > > > > >>> ping! is the documentation out of date? or am i not understanding > how > > >>> to use finishOnBackground? > > > > >>> On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 2:48 PM, Adam K <[email protected] > >wrote: > > > > >>>> Hi all, > > > > >>>> I want to do the following for a notification type activity that > > >>>> should be removed/closed from the system either via a button in the > > >>>> activity, or the user leaving with back or home: > > > > >>>> from -http://code.google.com/android/intro/appmodel.html > > >>>> Another approach you can take is to set the notification activity's > > >>>> task affinity to the empty string "" (indicating no affinity) and > > >>>> setting the finishOnBackground attribute. ... By specifying this > > >>>> attribute, the activity will be finished whether the user leaves it > > >>>> with BACK or HOME; if the attribute isn't specified, pressing HOME > > >>>> will result in the activity and its task remaining in the system, > > >>>> possibly with no way to return to it. > > > > >>>> However, I don't see any other references in the docs to > > >>>> finishOnBackground - the link on that page takes me to > > >>>> finishOnTaskLaunch instead. Any ideas? > > > > >>>> Thanks, > > > > >>>> Adam > > > > >> -- > > >> Dianne Hackborn > > >> Android framework engineer > > >> [email protected] > > > > >> Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time > to > > >> provide private support. All such questions should be posted on > public > > >> forums, where I and others can see and answer them. > > > > -- > > Dianne Hackborn > > Android framework engineer > > [email protected] > > > > Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to > > provide private support. All such questions should be posted on public > > forums, where I and others can see and answer them. > > > -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer [email protected] Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
