This is probably a better place to start: http://code.google.com/android/reference/android/R.styleable.html#AndroidManifestActivity_launchMode
-Ravi On Dec 26, 6:17 am, Ravi Yenduri <[email protected]> wrote: > OnNewIntent() is probablythe method you are looking for. > > http://code.google.com/android/reference/android/app/Activity.html#on...) > > -Ravi > > On Dec 26, 2:42 am, Jay-andro <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I have a service that runs in the background periodically and checks a > > database for some data. If it finds whats it's looking for, it shows > > an Activity to the user to alert him/her of this condition. Next time > > it runs, if the condition still persists I only want to show the > > activity if it is not already on display. So I need to detect if the > > activity is still on display from the last time before deciding to > > show it again. The alert activity is in the same app as the service. > > > How can I reliably detect that the activity is on display? > > > (I could track this by setting a global and unsetting it when the > > activity is destroyed (?) but I dont feel that's going to be reliable. > > I'd much rather find out definitively from Android whether the > > activity is showing or not.) > > > Thanks > > Jay --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---

