There is a method on Activity to send your task to the background.

On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 8:43 AM, sthustfo <[email protected]> wrote:

> Thanks. But in that case, I would need to remember the top most activity of
> the entire android stack (of other applications). I  basically need to send
> my application and all its related activities to background.
>
> I have used 'moveTaskToBack' which moves it to background. But I am not
> sure if this is the right or the preferred way.
>
> thanks.
>
>
> On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 10:05 PM, Andrew Stadler <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>>
>> The way to "send my activity" to the background is to send another
>> activity to the foreground...  All you have to do is create an Intent
>> and call startActivity().
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 3:17 AM, sthustfo <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > How do I send my activity to background when user presses a key? What
>> should
>> > I do in the onKeyDown() event handler? Using finish() will destroy the
>> > activity.
>> >
>> >     public boolean onKeyDown(int keyCode, KeyEvent event)
>> >     {
>> >         super.onKeyDown(keyCode, event);
>> >
>> >         // finish();
>> >         return true;
>> >     }
>> >
>> > Thanks.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > >
>> >
>>
>>
>>
>
> >
>


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