You might try asking the package manager if the intent you're sending
will have any receivers, also..

Kris

On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 11:16 PM, Kristopher Micinski
<krismicin...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> In that particular example the returning Activity was standard but the
>> Activity invoking it was singleInstance.   I knew the returning Activity had
>> to be standard but I only found out that the caller couldn't be
>> singleInstance by time-consuming trial-and-error.    I've never seen it
>> documented.    When I made the caller activity also standard it worked.
>> Which illustrates my question:   which is whether there's a way to
>> systematically find out from Android what happened.   Is any of this stuff
>> instrumented so we can see why something did or did not happen?
>>
>
> No.
>
> But you should see something in the logcat that shows an intent was
> fired.  Do you not see that?  The system does not "drop intents
> randomly".  Can you point out concrete cases where it has without
> sufficient error messages, because those would be bugs..
>
>> I'm currently trying to debug a case where I can ONLY start an activity if
>> it's singleInstance.   I don't know why and lots of people on StackOverflow
>> have made many guesses and suggestions, none of which (as of this writing)
>> have worked.    Because we're all fumbling in the dark since we don't know
>> what Android is doing behind the scenes.   I want to know if there's a way
>> to find out.
>
> There's not logged output from the Android internals that give an
> account of why your intent is "dropped" but I am more confused as to
> why this would be happening in the first place.  In the past, whenever
> I've heard this happening, it's because there's always been something
> like a misspelling of package name, or something's been signed
> incorrectly..
>
> Kris

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