Photostream uses an activity-alias, not an AliasActivity (they are different :)
On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 7:24 PM, jtaylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I noticed the Photostream app has alias activities. > > (This comment is in androidmanifest.xml) > <!-- Alias activity used to set the wallpaper on Home. The alias is > used > simply to have a different label. --> > > http://code.google.com/p/apps-for-android/source/browse/trunk/#trunk/Photostream > > > - Juan > > On Oct 12, 11:31 am, Anm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> The AliasActivity looks interesting, as a way to redirect a user to >> another activity/intent under a different name. I can see this being >> used to put a launcher icon to a document/url. But I don't see any >> examples of it, or documentation of the XML to configure it. (From >> the docs: "To use this activity, you should include in the manifest >> for the associated component an entry named "android.app.alias". It is >> a reference to an XML resource describing an intent that launches the >> real application. ") >> >> Does anyone have any pointers? >> >> Secondly, I think I want to make a something that acts similar to the >> AliasActivity as my app's entry point, but redirects to the most >> recently used activity. Calling startActivity() followed by finish() >> still invokes the activity after returning from the child activity >> (its still on the activity stack, despite the finish() call), leading >> to a loop that re-enters the child. What should I be doing instead? >> (I.e., What does AliasActivity do?) >> >> Anxiously awaiting the sources so I can answer these types of >> questions on my own. >> >> Anm > > > -- Romain Guy www.curious-creature.org --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
