Ah! Yes I think the IDE uses a different Intent than home does to launch your activity, so you will see this behavior there. (Basically when you launch again from home, this is a different intent than the intent for the first A, so you are displaying something different than that one, and thus a new instance for the new intent is launched.
On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 9:21 PM, Sarnoth <[email protected]> wrote: > > I posted with this same problem before and then it just seemed to > "disappear" so I replied to my own post with a "never mind, it works > now" and no real resolution. Well, as I've continued to develop I've > run in to it again and figured out what is going on. There is a > problem with the development environment that causes this. When an app > is run through the IDE either on a real device hooked up to the USB > port or on the emulator it will exhibit this behavior as follows: > 1. Hit run in IDE > 2. App launches with activity A > 3. Navigate to activity B > 4. Press the home button > 5. Click the app icon to return to the app > 6. App appears with activity A on top > 7. Press back and activity B is revealed, back again returns to > activity A, and a third back returns to the home screen > > This problem is present for every combination manifest and activity > launch options that I have tried. > The problem is avoided by exiting the app after hitting run in the > IDE: > 1. Hit run in the IDE to load the new version of the app but DO NOT > use it when it runs > 2. Hit back to exit the app and return to the home screen > 3. Launch the app from the icon, activities will work properly now > 4. Navigate from A to B > 5. Hit home > 6. Click the app icon, you are turned to B as expected > > On Apr 4, 9:58 pm, Dianne Hackborn <[email protected]> wrote: > > As I've said, what you are saying you want is the normal behavior. > > > > To everyone, you must give -detailed- information about exactly what you > are > > doing for there to be any hope of someone being able to help you. In > > particular, provide: > > > > (1) Your complete AndroidManifest.xml > > (2) The exact code you are using to build your Intent objects that you > are > > using to start your activities. > > (3) Likewise exactly how you are constructing any PendingIntent being > used > > with notifications etc. > > (4) The exact sequence of activities you are seeing started, and what you > > instead expect to have started; supplying the "Starting activity" logs as > > you do the steps can also help a lot. > > (5) It also would tremendously help to supply the output of "adb shell > > dumpsys activity" immediately before you are going to get in to the > problem > > state, along with the code you are executing to get in to the problem > state, > > and also the "Starting activity" log statement at the point where the > > problematic activity launch happens. > > > > > > > > On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 11:05 PM, Lovell <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > I think I have the same question, but I'm going to try to explain it a > > > little better: > > > > > My app has 4 activities on the stack A->B->C->D (top) > > > > > If you press home and re-enter the application, another instance of A > > > is started, so the stack is A->B->C->D->A (top). I know this because > > > when I press BACK, A is popped off and I now see D (instead of going > > > to the Home screen). > > > > > What I want is that when the user re-enters the app, they re-enter on > > > the same activity they were in before (D). How do you do that? > > > > > On Mar 20, 12:05 pm, Dianne Hackborn <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Um, what you are requesting is the normal behavior. When you tap on > an > > > > app's icon in home, it brings the current task of that app to the > > > foreground > > > > if it is already running. > > > > > > And services are singletons so you can only every get a single > instance > > > of a > > > > service running. > > > > > > On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 2:26 AM, Derek <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > Is it possible to re-use all the instances of Activities and > Services > > > > > when an application is launched twice. For instance: > > > > > 1/ I start my application APP1. Some activities are launched and a > > > > > service is started. > > > > > 2/ I click "Home" device button > > > > > 3/ I can see the icon the launch again my application APP1 > > > > > 4/ I click on it and the APP1 is launched twice > > > > > > > I would like to re-use the existing the instances of Activities and > > > > > Services from the first launch. > > > > > I guess it is related to "SingleTop" or "SingleTask" but it doesn't > > > > > seem to work. > > > > > > > Any suggestion ? > > > > > > -- > > > > 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, and so won't reply to such e-mails. 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, and so won't reply to such e-mails. 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. 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