Thanks everyone for helping me on this.
On Jun 27, 5:26 am, Dianne Hackborn <[email protected]> wrote:
> You should also read the Application Fundamentals doc, which describes the
> relationship between activities and tasks and how these are -not- related to
> processes or
> threads:http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/fundamentals.html
>
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> On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 4:18 PM, Doug <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > The startActivity() methods require the calling context to be an
> > Activity - otherwise the 'FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK' flag is required.
> > This is why when you try to start an activity from the Application
> > object, or a Receiver you must specify this flag.
>
> > See:
> >http://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/Activity.html#star...)<http://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/Activity.html#star...>
> > (note that it specifical mentions "This implementation overrides the
> > base version, providing information about the activity performing the
> > launch. Because of this additional information, the
> > FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK launch flag is not required")
>
> > Doug
>
> > On Jun 22, 9:37 pm, ani <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > Guys,
>
> > > I would like to know the reason behind this behaviour.I have a
> > > broadcast reciever and in onrecieve i am trying to start an
> > > activity,however if i am not giving the flags it is giving an
> > > exception .On declaring the flags it is working perfectly fine,why?
>
> > > I was under the impression that onRecieve runs in the main UI thread
> > > and we can launch an activity in onRecieve.Error given by the emulator
> > > is self explanatory but still why do i need to create an activity in a
> > > new task(only in onRecieve)?
>
> > > onRecieve {
> > > Intent intent4activity2 = new Intent
> > > ("android.intent.action.activity2");
> > > //intent4activity2.setFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK);
> > > arg0.startActivity(intent4activity2);
>
> > > }
>
> > > regards,
> > > ani
>
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> Dianne Hackborn
> Android framework engineer
> [email protected]
>
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