Hi Dianne,

Could you pls be more specific and indicate the method? Is it not
'moveTaskToBack'?

Thanks

On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 3:45 AM, Dianne Hackborn <[email protected]>wrote:

> 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.
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > >
>>> >
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> 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.  All such questions should be posted on public
> forums, where I and others can see and answer them.
>
>
>
> >
>

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