If you want the notification to just return to your application in its current state, you need to set the intent to match how it is launched: action is main, category is launcher, and the component is the same component you have published in your manifest for the main/launcher intent.
If you want to go somewhere else, you probably want to set the target activity to have an empty task affinity (so it doesn't get associated with your main task flow), and then be careful about managing he interaction between it and your main app. For example, if the activity launched from the notification has a button to go into the main app, you need to decide how all of that should work after the user hits the button: what happens to any currently running instance of your app, what happens when the user presses back from going into it, etc. A common scenario would be to launch one of the main activities of your app with NEW_TASK, so it will bring the main app to the foreground with the new activity running on top of this. In this case you probably want this target activity to have android:launchMode="singleTop" to repeatedly going to the app from the notification activity doesn't cause multiple instances of the target activity to stack up. On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 5:51 AM, Gustav Mauer <[email protected]> wrote: > > Marco wrote: > - You may be able to do what you want by having the notification start > a > - 'dummy' activity, which in turn brings your real activity to the > - front. > > Marco, do you maybe please have sample code or something that show how > one can restore a task like that, hopefully keeping the activity stack > intact so that things like the back button behaves as the user would > expect? > > Rick, yes, I also considered an empty intent, but for me that seems to > miss the point of the ability of the user to click on the > notification. I have built in some code to try to defend the > application against crashes, but like in your case, sometimes the > activity stack is so messed up that a crash in inevitable. > > > -- 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. 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
