It was renamed to match the actual behavior.

On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 3:04 PM, Adam K <a...@everythingandroid.net> wrote:

> Does it do exactly the same thing?  It sounds to me like finishOnTaskLaunch
> finishes an activity when it is relaunched from the homescreen - what I
> wanted to do is have an activity finish when it goes to the background.  Or
> would this be identical as calling finish() in the onPause() method?
>
> On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 5:16 PM, Dianne Hackborn <hack...@android.com>wrote:
>
>> Yes the documentation is out of date, it got renamed to
>> finishOnTaskLaunch.
>>
>> On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 7:57 AM, Adam K <a...@everythingandroid.net>wrote:
>>
>>> ping!  is the documentation out of date?  or am i not understanding how
>>> to use finishOnBackground?
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 2:48 PM, Adam K <a...@everythingandroid.net>wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> I want to do the following for a notification type activity that
>>>> should be removed/closed from the system either via a button in the
>>>> activity, or the user leaving with back or home:
>>>>
>>>> from - http://code.google.com/android/intro/appmodel.html
>>>> Another approach you can take is to set the notification activity's
>>>> task affinity to the empty string "" (indicating no affinity) and
>>>> setting the finishOnBackground attribute. ... By specifying this
>>>> attribute, the activity will be finished whether the user leaves it
>>>> with BACK or HOME; if the attribute isn't specified, pressing HOME
>>>> will result in the activity and its task remaining in the system,
>>>> possibly with no way to return to it.
>>>>
>>>> However, I don't see any other references in the docs to
>>>> finishOnBackground - the link on that page takes me to
>>>> finishOnTaskLaunch instead.  Any ideas?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>
>>>> Adam
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> 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.  All such questions should be posted on public
>> forums, where I and others can see and answer them.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
> >
>


-- 
Dianne Hackborn
Android framework engineer
hack...@android.com

Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to
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