Well, I DO think that Android documentation speaks about tasks and their affinities, contrary to what I said previously :)
I defined a non-default value for the taskAffinity attribute of the activity in question: <activity android:name=".SingleTaskActivity" android:label="ChildActivity:SingleTaskActivity" android:launchMode="singleTask" android:taskAffinity="com.robosoft.example.taskByIteself"> </activity> and the activity gets to run in a separate task. Both 'taskAffinity' and 'launchMode' are necessary if we want to have an activity run in a separate task. Alternatively, Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK may be used in the intent, in case only 'taskAffinity' is mentioned in the manifest. This is really interesting :) On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 1:37 PM, devi prasad <dpras...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, Dianne: this is the portion of the dump that I get by executing > "adb shell dumpsys activity" : > ---------------------- > Activities in Current Activity Manager State: > Task{3 com.robosoft.example} > clearOnBackground=false numActivities=3 rootWasReset=true > affinity=com.robosoft.example > intent=Intent { action=android.intent.action.MAIN > categories={android.intent.category.LAUNCHER} > flags=0x10200000 > > comp={com.robosoft.example/com.robosoft.example.AppRootActivity} } > > History #3: > HistoryRecord{434d2090 > {com.robosoft.example/com.robosoft.example.SingleTaskActivity}} > packageName=com.robosoft.example processName=com.robosoft.example > app=ProcessRecord{43516130 181:com.robosoft.example/10018} > Intent { flags=0x10000000 > comp={com.robosoft.example/com.robosoft.example.SingleTaskActivity} } > > History #2: > HistoryRecord{434fb848 > {com.robosoft.example/com.robosoft.example.ChildActivityOfRoot}} > packageName=com.robosoft.example processName=com.robosoft.example > app=ProcessRecord{43516130 181:com.robosoft.example/10018} > Intent { > comp={com.robosoft.example/com.robosoft.example.ChildActivityOfRoot} } > > History #1: > HistoryRecord{434fe2e8 > {com.robosoft.example/com.robosoft.example.AppRootActivity}} > packageName=com.robosoft.example processName=com.robosoft.example > app=ProcessRecord{43516130 181:com.robosoft.example/10018} > Intent { action=android.intent.action.MAIN > categories={android.intent.category.LAUNCHER} > --------------------------------------- > As I gather, this shows that all three activities are part of the same > task, even though I use FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK while starting > 'SingleTaskActivity' and mark it with 'singleTask' launch mode. The > intent flag value (0x10000000) indicates this in the top most activity > entry above. > > I cannot explain this behavior with my current understanding derived > from the documentation. What am I missing here? > > thanks > > > On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 10:50 AM, devi prasad <dpras...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi, Dianne: ok, thanks. >> I use the following functions to determine the task id and if it is >> the root of a task: >> >> activity.getTaskId(); >> activity.isTaskRoot(); >> >> I used logcat looking for useful hints. Let me see if I understand it >> better if I use >> "adb shell dumpsys activity" >> > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---