Thanks! On Apr 21, 3:24 am, Dianne Hackborn <hack...@android.com> wrote: > This is due to "task affinities." By default all activities in an .apk have > the same task affinity, so that when one is launched it is associated with > any current task started via any other activities in the app. > > If you publish multiple top-level activities in your app, you will probably > want to give them different task affinities so the system does not try to > treat them as part of the same logical flow. This is accomplished with the > android:taskAffinity attribute in the manifest, as described here: > > http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/fundamentals.html#afftask > > <http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/fundamentals.html#afftask>And > here: > > http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/manifest/activity-element.h... > > Another place where it is useful to set the taskAffinity is for an activity > that is launched from a notification, so that it will be launched separately > from the main application and thus allow the user to press back to return to > whatever they were doing instead of having to go back through whatever is on > your main task's stack. In this case you would set android:taskAffinity="", > saying that activity has no affinity to other activities. > > > > On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 5:44 PM, krox <erik.strandb...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi! > > > I have an application consisting of two activities (call them Display > > and Preferences) and one service which listens for incoming > > phonecalls. When it detects one it launches the Display-activity with > > a delay of 3sec in order to let the PhoneApp launch first. The Display- > > activity is transparent so the user can still use the PhoneApp as > > normal (ie answering the call) even though my Display-activity is "on > > top". So far so good :-) > > > Now to my problem. Lets say that the Preferences-activity is active > > when there is an incoming call. The PhoneApp is launched on top of the > > Preferences-activity as expected. However when the Display-activity is > > launched the Preferences-activity pops up as well, hiding the > > PhoneApp. My question is if it is possible to work around this in some > > way? Since I do not want my Preferences-activity to block the PhoneApp > > and hence making it impossible for the user to answer the incoming > > phone call. > > > Kind regards, > > Erik > > > -- > > 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<android-developers%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > > For more options, visit this group at > >http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > > -- > 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, and so won't reply to such e-mails. 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 > athttp://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
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