I am sure there is something in here that will help: http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/fundamentals.html#acttask and also here: http://developer.android.com/guide/practices/ui_guidelines/activity_task_design.html
(confession - so much information it makes my head hurt) -- RichardC On Oct 28, 5:45 am, Lee <[email protected]> wrote: > I've got an application that has a number of activities. One of the > things that it can do is create a shortcut on the homescreen that when > pressed starts an activity inside my application. I am finding > however that there's an issue with how tasks are working and screens > that I don't expect to be shown are shown. > > Here's my situation: > > 1) I am running activity A of my application in the foreground > 2) I press the home key and move back to the home screen > 3) I start a shortcut which starts activity B of my application' > 4) From within activity B I press the back button > 5) ******ACTIVITY A IS SHOWN AND NOT THE HOME SCREEN**************** > > From user feedback this isn't what users expect. At step 5 above they > would like to see the home screen rather than activity A since > activity A is very independent of activity B and seeing it again is > not what they'd expect. > > What can be done to ensure that pressing back on activity B at step 5 > above shows the home screen again rather than activity A > > Thanks > Lee --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
