Hey Mike, no, this also happens on my G1 ;-( Cheers, Mariano
On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 1:36 PM, Mike Hearn <[email protected]> wrote: > > If you press back and arrive at the same activity you started on, I > think that's a bug that I've only seen when using Eclipse to develop. > I think if you press back as far as you can possibly go, until you > reach the home screen, then run the app from the phone (not from > eclipse) it will behave normally. Running the app from the IDE seems > to screw around with the task stack for some reason. > > On May 9, 3:49 pm, Mariano Kamp <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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;...>] > > > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
