This is just an issue with how ADT launches the application, effectively under a different identity so resulting in two instances running if you also try to launch it from home.
On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 10:22 PM, adamphillips12 <[email protected]>wrote: > > I've noticed some strange behaviour with resuming a task from a Home > icon. > > Very easy to replicate, just create a new bare bones android project > using eclipse, don't need to add anything. Then follow these steps: > > 1. In eclipse, Run the project on a emulator or device. > 2. Once the app installs and launches the first activity, press Home > key. > 3. Launch the app again by pressing its icon. > 4. Press Back key. > > Now this part seems wrong, you'll go back to the original activity in > the stack, instead of the Home screen, even though its been previously > launched and what you expect is it to bring back the stack as it was > left, with one activity. If you repeat steps 2-3, it will just keep > adding the same activity to the stack. That is until you press Back > all the way through the stack to the Home screen. > > Now this behaviour will never again replicate. It will be the correct > (?) behaviour of bringing back the stack history at the state it was > when Home was pressed. Note there are no behavioural modifications, > this is just a default application. However, I tried many combinations > of launchModes and stack clearing, they had no effect on the first > run. > > Unless I'm interpreting the documentation wrong, when the user presses > the Home key, the task is moved in to the background and simply > brought back the next time they press the app icon? Why is the app > icon altering the task it creates, if it already exists (with no flag > modifications)? > > > > -- 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
