westmeadboy wrote: > I have one WidgetProvider but expect the user to have multiple > instances of the widget on the home screen. > > When the user clicks on the widget, an intent is fired to start an > activity A passing a String extra (which is specific to that instance > of the app widget). > > Everything works fine unless the activity is already running, in which > case the activity is shown in its previous state (and so the intent > extra data is ignored). > > I've tried using various Intent flags (like FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK) > but they don't seem to help.
Try FLAG_ACTIVITY_SINGLE_TOP and then override onNewIntent() in your activity -- you should get the extra that way. http://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/Activity.html#onNewIntent(android.content.Intent) -- Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) http://commonsware.com | http://twitter.com/commonsguy Android Training in US: 14-18 June 2010: http://bignerdranch.com -- 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
