Re: [android-developers] Can I prelaunch an app?

2012-09-13 Thread Steve
The use case is that some apps are godawful slow to load. In Windows you can start two programs and do stuff with the faster-loading one while the slower-loading one is still loading. It would be nice to do that on a droid if you're hell-bent on not wasting time waiting for a single app to

Re: [android-developers] Can I prelaunch an app?

2012-09-13 Thread Justin Anderson
The use case is that some apps are godawful slow to load. In Windows you can start two programs and do stuff with the faster-loading one while the slower-loading one is still loading. It would be nice to do that on a droid if you're hell-bent on not wasting time waiting for a single app to

[android-developers] Can I prelaunch an app?

2012-09-12 Thread Jilong Liao
Hi everyone, I am wondering if I can write a Service that enable the user to prelaunch a different app while he is using the current app. For example, if I am using gmail, can I prelaunch Angry Bird when I am using gmail? Here prelaunch means launch the app in the backgroup but not put it on

Re: [android-developers] Can I prelaunch an app?

2012-09-12 Thread Kristopher Micinski
Hm, it's not really clear what you mean here. Apps have a kind of dynamic living forever feeling to them. You get a 'poke' (your onStart(), etc...) gets called when you send an intent to fire up the app on it's main screen. If you're asking if there is any intent that allows you to bring up an