How to return to the latest launched activity when re-launching application after pressing HOME? [duplicate]

by

Oh, I think I’ve found the answer.

Because I was launching the app by using IntelliJ, it seems it launches the application in a different way than a user, clicking a home screen widget, would launch. It’s explained in the answer to another SO question:

This is due to the intents being used to start the app being different. Eclipse starts an app using an intent with no action and no category. The Launcher starts an app using an intent with android.intent.action.MAIN action and android.intent.category.LAUNCHER category. The installer starts an app with the android.intent.action.MAIN action and no category.

Ref: App always starts fresh from root activity instead of resuming background state (Known Bug)

So I’ve manually killed the application in the phone, and relaunched it again from the home screen widget. Then opened the GameActivity, and pressed HOME. Now, when relaunching it the GameActivity is still visible and keeping its UI state as it was when I left it.

And I guess that the reason why a new instance of the activity was created when pressing the shortcut before was due to a different Intent being used for starting the activity.

More Related Contents:

  1. Android: Clear the back stack
  2. Android: Clear Activity Stack
  3. App always starts fresh from root activity instead of resuming background state (Known Bug)
  4. Android Application Class Lifecycle
  5. How to clear the Android Stack of activities?
  6. Activity stack ordering problem when launching application from Android app installer and from Home screen
  7. Android Shared preferences for creating one time activity (example) [closed]
  8. Android – How To Override the “Back” button so it doesn’t Finish() my Activity?
  9. How to get current foreground activity context in android?
  10. Android- Going back to Previous Activity with different Intent value
  11. Android app out of memory issues – tried everything and still at a loss
  12. How do I get the height and width of the Android Navigation Bar programmatically?
  13. Finish all activities at a time
  14. onActivityResult() called prematurely
  15. Accessing SharedPreferences through static methods
  16. Android: Activity getting Destroyed after calling Camera Intent
  17. TextWatcher for more than one EditText
  18. One Activity and all other Fragments [closed]
  19. Android webview loading data performance very slow
  20. How to kill sub activities and bring activity to top of stack
  21. View the Task’s activity stack
  22. Android PagerView between Activities
  23. android: using ActivityGroup to embed activities
  24. Shared preferences for creating one time activity
  25. How to send objects through bundle
  26. Android checking whether the app is closed
  27. What is the difference between onPause() and onStop() of Android Activites?
  28. Kotlin Android start new Activity
  29. ViewTreeLifecycleOwner not found from DecorView@2da7146[MyActivity]
  30. Getting the Application Context

Leave a Comment