Actually, I got the behavior I was looking for by launching the edit activity with the no history flag. It's not quite as flexible as I'd like but everything works as expected.
On Dec 18, 11:25 am, Soonil Nagarkar <soon...@gmail.com> wrote: > Giving this topic some life, is there any way to implement something > similar to finishOnTaskBackground? It is possible to reenter a task > that was previously in the background without going through the > launcher, in which case the desired behavior of finishing a task with > this flag does not happen. For instance, in my application, a user can > select an item to edit from a list. Suppose in the process of editing > this item, the user hits the home button taking them back to the home > screen. From the home screen, they use an intent associated with a > notification to reenter the task at the list of items. Here they can > delete an item from the list. Pressing the back button now will take > them to the previously opened activity which was editing the task > (which they may have just deleted) resulting in unexpected behavior > from the user's point of view. > > Is it possible to avoid this by setting some flags on either the > notification intent or the item list activity? > > On Dec 11, 10:00 pm, "Dianne Hackborn" <hack...@android.com> wrote: > > > 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 Yes the documentation is out of date, it got renamed to 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 is the documentation out of date?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 > > provide private support. 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
