I have been using the immediately destroy activities option. Thanks for your help. It seems I need further investigation on why onResultActivity is not being called.
On Sep 30, 1:03 pm, Dianne Hackborn <[email protected]> wrote: > I used the shell to kill the process with the kill command. You could also > turn on the "immediately destroy activities" development option for a > somewhat similar effect (your current activity instance will be destroyed, > but its process will still be there). > > > > On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 10:03 AM, Jeff King <[email protected]> wrote: > > > How did you "kill" gmail? I thought only Android could kill > > activities. I get desired results when onRestart is called but not > > when onCreate is called after returning to the activity that had been > > killed (left side of diagram > >http://d.android.com/reference/android/app/Activity.html#ActivityLife... > > ) > > > On Sep 30, 11:48 am, Dianne Hackborn <[email protected]> wrote: > > > It does get delivered when recreated (just confirmed by trying to attach > > an > > > image in gmail and killing gmail while in the gallery); there must be > > some > > > other wrinkle to your situation. > > > > On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 9:36 AM, Jeff King <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > I have a flow A->B->C->D where A desires some information that is > > > > obtained by D. B, C, and D propagate the data back through the flow > > > > using setResult(RESULT_OK, data) and finish(). All intents in A, B, > > > > and C are started with startActivityForResult. However, if B is > > > > reclaimed by Android and forced to call onCreate again after C > > > > finishes onActivityResult in B is never called and the data never > > > > makes it back to A. > > > > > Is there a way I can be sure that onActivityResult will be called? > > > > -- > > > 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. 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---

