I still don't get it ;-( I have the top level activity, let's call it A, that is used by the launcher and have the android:clearTaskOnLaunch attribute set to true. A drills down to B and B to C. Now when I am on activity C and switch to Gmail and back to my app/task then C is up. If I launch the task activity A is displayed not C, which is what I want. But when pressing Back on A I get to A again. That doesn't seem right to me. Shouldn't A have been cleared too, so that Back would return me to the launch screen?
On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 5:08 PM, Mariano Kamp <[email protected]> wrote: > Isn't that the same model that is used on the Desktop?Launching an app > usually puts you in a clean state, but switching back to a running instance > (Alt/Cmd+Tab) brings you to the screen of the app you were most recently > on.That makes perfect sense to me. > > Actually now that I learned about android:clearTaskOnLaunch [use in > contacts<http://android.git.kernel.org/?p=platform/packages/apps/Contacts.git;a=blob;f=AndroidManifest.xml;h=71a90eb3b6f4d1a7285a462d0965aeb6660506ca;hb=HEAD#l149>] > here, I can finally try to get my app to behave like I would expect it to. > > This discussion is very enlightening. Dianne that would be a great topic > for a blog post of yours, wouldn't it? ;-) > > On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 3:07 PM, Mike Hearn <[email protected]>wrote: > >> >> > As far as contacts goes, though, this is actually intentional -- some >> apps >> > (like contacts and settings) want to put the user back to their front >> door >> > when relaunched from home, so they set the option to do that. This is >> > actually a "desired" inconsistency. >> >> Right, I realise it's intentional. What I'm unclear on is, why these >> apps are special? I presume usability testing revealed this is the >> behavior users expected. In which case why not reset task stacks for >> every app? >> >> >> > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
