The only times I've done this with Notifications, I have used
FLAG_ACTIVITY_SINGLE_TOP and FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_TOP. I assumed
FLAG_ACTIVITY_REORDER_TO_FRONT would work as well, but apparently I am
mistaken.
On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 7:29 AM, KK <dioxide.softw...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks for the hints. I'm trying to use the FLAG_ACTIVITY_REORDER_TO_FRONT
> flag but the behavior remains as earlier. After the activity starts, I press
> "Menu" to go to home and then pull down the "Notification list" click on the
> current one (for my demopendingintent activity) and it brings me a new
> activity page. I've added exit buttons and logs through which I'm able to
> conclude that it starts a new activity rather than bringing the one running
> in the background. May be I'm doing something wrong in my code. Please find
> below the code snippet I'm using for showing notifications etc.
> ---code snippet----
> private void showNotification() {
> mNotificationManager = (NotificationManager)
> getSystemService(NOTIFICATION_SERVICE);
> // //Add current song to notification bar
> CharSequence tickerText = "Demo Alert";
> long when = System.currentTimeMillis();
> CharSequence contentTitle = "Now playing";
> CharSequence contentText = "Demo song";
> Intent notificationIntent = new Intent(this,
> DemoPendingIntentActivity.class);
> notificationIntent.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_BROUGHT_TO_FRONT);
> PendingIntent pendingIntent = PendingIntent.getActivity(
> getApplicationContext(), 0, notificationIntent, 0);
> Notification notification = new Notification(
> R.drawable.ic_stat_playing, tickerText, when);
> notification.setLatestEventInfo(getApplicationContext(), contentTitle,
> contentText, pendingIntent);
> notification.contentIntent = pendingIntent;
> // Make the notification non-clearable
> notification.flags = Notification.FLAG_ONGOING_EVENT;
> mNotificationManager.notify(notificationId, notification);
> }
>
> and the onCreate() is given below:
> public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
> super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
> setContentView(R.layout.main);
> mButton = (Button) findViewById(R.id.button1);
> mButton.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {
> @Override
> public void onClick(View arg0) {
> // TODO Auto-generated method stub
> Log.d(TAG, "Shutting down app");
> finish();
> }
> });
> showNotification();
> }
> --- code snippet----
> Would appreciate if someone can point me whats going wrong here. Many
> thanks.
> Regards,
> KK
>
> On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 5:25 PM, Mark Murphy <mmur...@commonsware.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Add either FLAG_ACTIVITY_REORDER_TO_FRONT or the combination of
>> FLAG_ACTIVITY_SINGLE_TOP and FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_TOP as flags to your
>> Intent. The latter finishes all other activities that might be on your
>> back stack; the former simply brings any existing copy of the activity
>> back to the foreground.
>>
>> On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 4:51 AM, KK <dioxide.softw...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > hi All,
>> > I'm trying to use Notification manager and Pending Intent so that
>> > whenever
>> > the user clicks the notification the currently running activity's UI is
>> > shown. However in the code I'm using, as shown below opens up a new
>> > instance
>> > of the app instead of leading the user to the currently running one:
>> > ---code snippet----
>> > mNotificationManager = (NotificationManager)
>> > getSystemService(NOTIFICATION_SERVICE);
>> > // //Add current song to notification bar
>> > CharSequence tickerText = "Demo Alert";
>> > long when = System.currentTimeMillis();
>> > CharSequence contentTitle = "Now playing";
>> > CharSequence contentText = "Demo song";
>> > PendingIntent pendingIntent = PendingIntent.getActivity(
>> > getApplicationContext(), 0, new Intent(this,
>> > DemoPendingIntentActivity.class), 0);
>> > Notification notification = new Notification(
>> > R.drawable.ic_stat_playing, tickerText, when);
>> > notification.setLatestEventInfo(getApplicationContext(), contentTitle,
>> > contentText, pendingIntent);
>> > notification.contentIntent = pendingIntent;
>> > // Make the notification non-clearable
>> > notification.flags = Notification.FLAG_ONGOING_EVENT;
>> > mNotificationManager.notify(notificationId, notification);
>> > ---code snippet----
>> > How do I open up the currently running activity instead of opening a new
>> > one? Please let me know whats going wrong in the above code. Appreciate
>> > your
>> > time.
>> > Thanks,
>> > KK
>> >
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