hi boss On 9/18/11, Pritam <[email protected]> wrote: > 0 down vote favorite > share [fb] share [tw] > > > I am relaunching my HomeActivity and setting an extra "relaunchstatus" > in the Intent. In Activity's onCreate() method I check this value, if > present, show some alert. > > The launchmode for this activity is android:launchmode="singleTask". > > The issue comes after the user sees this alert and close it and again > close the activity by pressing Back button. Now if he starts it from > Recent list of apps by long pressing 'Home' button, then the same > intent which had an extra "relaunchstatus" in it is used and again the > alert comes. > > This keeps on as long as user comes from the recent items (OK, may be > recent launch apps uses the same intent which had the extra > "relaunchstatus" set in it). > > So I tried to remove this extra by handling BACK_KEY press just before > the activity finishes itself, using > getIntent().removeExtra("relaunchstatus") , still this extra exists in > the new launch from Recent items. > > However this is not the case if I start the app from launcher menu > icon. > > Also, I finish my activity before relaunching, in this particular > case. Hence its onCreate() is called instead of onNewIntent() as it do > not exist in the task stack. In other cases I need it to reuse, so > cannot remove the "singleTask" option > > So If Activity's getIntent() is giving you a copy of Intent that > launched it, its not like a reference to same Intent object on which > changes will be permanent. If this is the case, then we will need to > do it from current device GUI (like HTC Sense etc. ) , whose recent > items are bind to that intent , which may not be possible ? > > One way is to set setFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_EXCLUDE_FROM_RECENTS), > while restarting it again. So for this case it won't appear in recent > menu, still there needs to be some other way ? > > -- > 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
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