Activities are meant for the user to interact with, so no.
You can create a service, and call it with startService(Intent).
There are some nice examples of services in API Demos:
http://developer.android.com/resources/samples/ApiDemos/src/com/example/android/apis/app/index.html
(look for RemoteService and RemoteServiceBinding)

On Apr 22, 11:27 am, DulcetTone <dulcett...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Is there a way to call startActivity(Intent) without the newly started
> activity displacing the current one as the active, foreground
> activity?
>
> If not purely so, are there near approximation to this effect that can
> be done, such as mimicking a back keypress event right after calling
> startActivity()?  If so, which means is preferred?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> tone
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