Android :: Handle Existing Instance Root Activity Launching Root Activity From Intent Filter
Apr 3, 2010
I'm having difficulties handling multiple instances of my root (main) activity for my application. My app in question has an intent filter in place to launch my application when opening an email attatchment from the "Email" app. My problem is if I launch my application first through the the android applications screen and then launch my application via opening the Email attachment it creates two instances of my root activity. steps: Launch root activity A, press home Open email attachment, intent filter triggers launches root activity A Is it possible when opening the Email attachment that when the OS tries to launch my application it detects there is already an instance of it running and use that or remove/clear that instance?
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Feb 6, 2010
I'm using an intent-filter on URLs for my activity:
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the launchMode attribute is set to "singleTop", but it looks like a new activity is created every time I click a matching url. I thought that if the activity is already alive somewhere, it would simply be brought to the front of my activity stack?
I tried this on the emulator/device, same behavior, a new activity instance is always created.
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Oct 14, 2010
I'm switching between different Activities using Intents. For one Activity, I would like it to clear the history stack so when the user presses the back button, it takes them Home instead of previous activities in my application.
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Aug 14, 2010
I'm trying to figure out how to launch an activity in my app from a custom URI such as myapp://myuriactivity I've read a lot about the intent and intent filters in the android references and also read several examples, but for some reason I can't get my simple test to work. Below is my manifest file, can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong? With the below file, if I open the browser and try to navigate to http://org.test.launchtest it just says the page doesn't exist. Shouldn't this work?
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Feb 6, 2010
I'm registering an intent-filter on an activity to listen for url clicks from a certain domain:
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This works, but is there a way to filter out certain urls from my domain? For example, my app can only do something useful for the user if it gets a url like: www.mywebsite.com/orange
But if the user clicks on a link like: www.mywebsite.com/blue
I can't do anything useful for them, so I'd like to just let them continue using the browser to open that url. Is there a way I get a chance to see the URL before android pops up the chooser dialog and presents my app as a possible handler for the url? Is there some method in Activity which allows me to filter?
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Jul 2, 2010
My program has a list of tabs that each contain a list of people.Clicking a person should edit their details, but instead, clicking a person throws an ActivityNotFoundException.
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Jul 28, 2010
I've got two activities, one of them is called MyActivity. I want both of them to be able to use a function located in a class othat we may call MyClass. In MyClass, I try to use an intent to launch the activity AnotherActivity. Since the constructor takes a context as parameter, I simply tried to store a context from the activity in the constructor, and then use it when I try to create my intent.However, even thought none of the arguments are null (checked that with a simple if-statement), intent seems to be null and a NullPointerException is thrown. Why does it not work, and what can I do to solve the problem?
I'm quite new to Android and Java development, so please explain it as basic as you can.
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Sep 13, 2010
I am having two activities, say activity A and B. Activity A is an ListActivity, and when the items in the list is selected, it will call startActivity() to bring up B. The problem here is that when I am in B and click the home key, and then go to the application launcher to resume my application, A will be brought up again. This time when I click a different item in A, it will bring up B with the old data of the previously selected item before the home key was clicked.
After examinzing the code, I found that the startActivity does not update the intent of B. I found a post here about the similar question, and the answer was to overwrite the onNewIntent. However, I found that it doesn't work, because this method never get called when the second time I call startActivity. I am sure that this is the same instance, because I've printed out the instance number. Is there any other ways to update the intent of the activity? Or I need some other settings to make the onNewIntent get called? I didn't set any flags or launch modes, so everything is default.
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Aug 4, 2010
I am tring to invote internal media player of android from my activity. Seems there is some problem in menifest file .
Please look into this issue .
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Nov 24, 2010
I have a problem regarding my intent. It seems that my app crashes when i select the intent. I found the line of error code due to the stack trace. But i couldn't find anything wrong with it. Hope anyone can help me with this.
This is the java code in line 121:
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This is the stack trace:
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Nov 2, 2010
test.class type is right? How to? What should I do?
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Jul 23, 2009
I have an activity that is showing a video and when the user clicks a button, a new activity is launched. When the video activity stops, I pause the video view. When the video activity starts up again, I try to resume the video view videoView.start(), however, the video starts over from the beginning. I'm thinking that the buffer must be lost somewhere, so I now try to capture the current position via videoView.getCurrentPosition(), however, this is always returning 0.
Anybody know how to resume video playback when an activity starts up again?
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Aug 4, 2009
i have a set of activities on my stack Say A-->B-->C. when i launch the activity named 'D' it should get fired as the root activity of my application and all the other activities(A,B,C) should get cleared from my stack once Activity D is launched.Can any one tell me as how to do this
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Apr 19, 2010
I am building an Android application that requires OAuth. I have all the OAuth functionality working except for handling the callback from Yahoo.
I have the following in my AndroidManifest.xml:
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Where www.test.com will be substituted with a domain that I own.
It seems :
This filter is triggered when I click on a link on a page. It is not triggered on the redirect by Yahoo, the browser opens the website at www.test.com It is not triggered when I enter the domain name directly in the browser.
When exactly this intent-filter will be triggered? Any changes to the intent-filter or permissions that will widen the filter to apply to redirect requests?
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Jul 9, 2010
I have a Contact Activity which is derived from ListActivity, which displays list of contacts, and on click of item, a new Activity Message Activity derived from ListActivity is initialized.Now I know, I can pack some information in Bundle and pass it before creating activity, but is there a way I can get instance of "ContactActivity" in onCreate method of "MessageActivity"?
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Feb 18, 2010
have an activity which launches another activity, via a button click. By default, on newer OS versions of android, the OS will animate the new activity sliding in from right to left.Is there a way to disable this animation? I just want the new activity to appear without any sort of animation.
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Nov 9, 2010
I have an activity that starts a long-running service which in turn adds an icon to the status bar. When the activity gets invisible, e.g. by pressing the Home button, and the pressing the icon in the status bar a new activity is created instead of showing the already created activity. If you now press the back button the new activity is destroyed and the activity created in the first place gets visible. How do I make the invisible activity brought to front when pressing the icon in the status bar instead of creating a new activity?
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Jun 28, 2010
I'm trying to have my app display my login activity when a user selects add account in accounts&sync or wants to use the app and isn't logged in yet. I've followed the example SampleSyncAdapter fairly closely, but can't get it to work.
In my auth service:
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In my manifest:
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In my main activity:
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I've tried doing both
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And
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Before the startActivity() call, but it still can't find an activity for that intent. If I try to add an account via accounts&sync the app crashes with the same ActivityNotFoundException.
I've examined c99's last.fm app, which defines a custom action and uses intents based on that action rather than android.accounts.AccountManager.ACTION_AUTHENTICATOR_INTENT. Is that a better approach? Is there a way to make it work with Accounts & Sync?
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Nov 2, 2010
I have a TabActivity, and each Tab corresponds to its own Activity. In one of them, in the onCreate method, I use startActivityForResult to show a dialog (specifically, Bump's BumpAPI activity).
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The problem is that when the screen orientation changes, it tries to create the tab's activity again which makes another BumpAPI dialog, resulting in multiple stacked on top of each other. Do I have a hook into the started activity to cancel the previous one when the orientation changes?
A workaround seems to be to add a button that when clicked, starts the second activity, but that adds an unnecessary step.
Also, I can't fix the screen orientation for the entire tabActivity because some of them require typing and users may want to use their physical keyboards.
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Dec 24, 2012
I am working on developing an app and I am not sure when should I use a new activity and when should I update the existing view.
For example, lets say I have a view that shows a multiple choice question.Now, when the user selects his choices and clicks on say "Evaluate", I want to show the same question view but along with the right answers and explanations for each option. So does that mean, I should send an Intent upon a click on Evaluate or I should just update the view (i am not sure how)?
If I send an intent and show a new screen, how can the user go back to the next question without displaying the answers? If I don't create an new activity, how can I update the existing view that is already displayed?
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Oct 17, 2010
My app works with pictures. It can take multiple pictures as an input, process them, and send them again to another app.
As a consequence, my main Activity has declared an intent filter on ACTION_SEND_MULTIPLE for image/* mimetypes and can result in issuing a new Intent with the same action and data type using Activity.startActivity(Intent).
Is there a way to exclude my own activity from the list of apps that is displayed to the user after the startActivity() call ?
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Sep 16, 2009
In the documentation it is stated that an activity with launchMode="singleTask" is always at the root of the sctivity stack. However, when I run my "singleTask" activity for a few scenarios and monitors behaviour with "adb shell dumpsys activity" I can see it placed both at the top of the stack (with numActivities=2) and in the middle of the stack (with numActivities=3). The activity at the root (frontOfTask=True) has a "normal" launchMode.Is the documentation incorrect or am I missing something?
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Jun 11, 2009
Is there a function that allows me to get the top most view (the root)?
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Jul 13, 2010
I have a app with 2 activities, A B A has a button that launches a new intent for B. When at B I press home, then launch app again, B is resumed with onResume(). But if after I press home, I use something like taskiller to clear tasks, then I launch app again, it still shows B, but onCreate() is called. What I want for the second situation is for the app to start A instead of B. How can that be done?
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Jul 9, 2010
Is there a way to get an instance of the activity that has called the currently running activity from the intent object that has been passed to it? eg. if A has called B, I would like to retrieve A's instance from the intent in B's onCreate method. As Activity is not Serializable i am not able to pass the instance in the extras bundle.
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Jan 25, 2010
I have an application with 2 activities, LogonAct and MainAct. LogonAct is a logon activity which I want to force the user to go through each time they return to the application. I've set android:clearTaskOnLaunch="true" on LogonAct.
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May 9, 2010
I have a bunch of tab activities (which I implemented myself, didn't want to use the tabviews with activities inside them), so It's basically 5 activities calling each other every time the user clicks on the tabs displayed as a row of LinearLayouts at the bottom of the screen.
The thing is that the way I do it now, everytime the user jumps from one activity to another, a new activity is created and launched. Of course, I can see I'm wasting resources this way. So what I would like to do is to create every activity only once; and then if the user wants to go back to the previous (or any one that was already created and is probably paused) just check on some kind of list or array to see if the activity can be recovered and only in the case it can't; to lauch a new one.
My question is, how can I check this? should I save the intents? and how to recover the activities afterwards? I'm kind of new with java.
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Jul 19, 2010
Is there any way to get the instance of a launched activity(or any view in that activity )of a application in another application.
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Aug 16, 2010
We all know that hitting the back button on the device doesn't kill the application, it merely finishes (destroys) the activity running on the foreground.
Well I have come across some code which helps me capture the back button signal so that I cannot exit the application. The only way to exit it in such cases is to press the home key.
Now this situation presents me with a unique disadvantage! The inability to kill finish the application on a time of my own choosing allows the application to keep running in the background like nothing has changed.
So in such cases is the task manager my only friend or is there a way for me to otherwise kill this application?
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Sep 2, 2010
Is it possible to create/push-onto-stack a new Activity of the same main Activity in an Android application with an argument passed to the Activities constructor? Specifically from a Dialog object...
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