Re: [android-developers] Making sure activity is alive to receive Intent?

2010-03-05 Thread Donal Rafferty
Thanks Sean, they are two additional methods I can look into now much appreciated On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 4:22 PM, Sean Hodges wrote: > There are better ways of handling this. The purpose of an Intent is to > atomically request that an action is performed (and optionally > retrieve the result of t

Re: [android-developers] Making sure activity is alive to receive Intent?

2010-03-05 Thread Sean Hodges
There are better ways of handling this. The purpose of an Intent is to atomically request that an action is performed (and optionally retrieve the result of that action), not to continue a discussion with the activity throughout it's continued lifetime. There are a number of ways to do what you wa

[android-developers] Making sure activity is alive to receive Intent?

2010-03-05 Thread draf...@gmail.com
I currently have an application that has code in it that starts an Activity but shortly afterwards it also sends an intent so the newly started activity knows what state to display in. So the activity starts... then code decides it should be in state one button 1 and 2 are displayed. Or Th