Ah I see, that makes sense. Thanks for clearing that up for me :)
On Jul 24, 4:27 pm, Dianne Hackborn <hack...@android.com> wrote: > 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 > <adamphillip...@gmail.com>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 > hack...@android.com > > 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 android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
