Thanks for the response Stoyan. I like having the UI preserved so I don't want to toss everything down to the root. I just want to stop some worker threads when going into the background.
>See if "clearTaskOnLaunch" [1] is not what you're looking for. > >[1] http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/fundamentals.html > >Cheers > >On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 12:57 AM, Ward Willats <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Is there a way to tell when my task gets put on the back of the UI >> stack (user pressed "home" say?) I have some resources I'd like to >> free when not foregrounded. >> >> The lifecycle routines seem dicey to use to try and infer this. >> >> The "home" key does not seem to be passed to onKeyDown(), and >> moveTaskToBack() is never called by the system so I can hook it. >> >> I can poll the ActivityManager for running activities with my task >> id, but hard to find a good time to call this. >> >> Thanks >> >> -- Ward >> >> > >> > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---

