The use case is that some apps are godawful slow to load. In Windows you can start two programs and do stuff with the faster-loading one while the slower-loading one is still loading. It would be nice to do that on a droid if you're hell-bent on not wasting time waiting for a single app to load.
At least, that would be my use case. Perhaps M. Liao has a different need. On Wednesday, September 12, 2012 5:02:05 PM UTC-4, Kristopher Micinski wrote: > > Hm, it's not really clear what you mean here. > > Apps have a kind of dynamic "living forever" feeling to them. You get > a 'poke' (your onStart(), etc...) gets called when you send an intent > to fire up the app on it's main screen. If you're asking if there is > any intent that allows you to bring up an app into memory and position > it so that it's lying in the background waiting to come back to with > an onResume(), the answer is no. However, you *can* send an intent > which is caught by a broadcast receiver or a service within the app. > This will effectively bring it into memory, but not an associated > screen. > > What is the use case for this? I can imagine that it's possible to do > something annoying "pop under" thing, but the fact that the framework > doesn't support the kind of thing I just mentioned also implies that > what you really want to do should be able to be accomplished by some > other means.. > > kris > > On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 8:56 PM, Jilong Liao <jilon...@gmail.com<javascript:>> > wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > > > I am wondering if I can write a Service that enable the user to > prelaunch a > > different app while he is using the current app. For example, if I am > using > > gmail, can I prelaunch Angry Bird when I am using gmail? Here prelaunch > > means launch the app in the backgroup but not put it on the screen. > > > > Thanks. > > Jilong > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > Groups "Android Developers" group. > > To post to this group, send email to > > android-d...@googlegroups.com<javascript:> > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com <javascript:> > > 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 android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
