Android :: SingleTask - SingleTop - Properly Implement A GUI?
Oct 13, 2009
Our application which consists of something like this: Main menu => View contacts => Edit contact => View groups => Settings => Browser settings
I have then added gestures so that the user can jump between any of these screens with a gesture. But this leads to a huge activity stack that just grows and grows so how should I properly implement this?
I thought about the following: Main menu (SingleTask) => View contacts (SingleTop) => Edit contact => View groups (SingleTop) => Settings (SingleTop) => Browser settings (SingleTop)
If I do nothing then I end up with something like this (using gestures): Main menu - View Contacts - Main Menu - Browser Settings - View Contacts - Main menu
I would guess this would lead to memory issues sooner or later?
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Jun 1, 2010
I have two activities: a MainListActivity, and a DetailViewActivity. DetailViewActivity is set with android:launchMode="singleTop".
When clicking an item in the "main list" activity, it launches the "detail view" activity via:
startActivityForResult(detailIntent, REQUEST_CODE_DETAIL);
If I then call setResult(RESULT_OK, resultData); and finish(); from within the Detail activity, that resultData is received by the "main list" activity's onActivityResult(..) method correctly.
However, if I implement a "see previous"/"see next" type of navigation within the Detail activity, and implement it using singleTop, that result no longer gets sent back to the initial activity:
Intent nextItemIntent = this.createIntent(nextId);
nextItemIntent.setFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_FORWARD_RESULT);
startActivity(nextItemIntent);
// at this point, my DetailActivity's onNewIntent() method is called, and the new data is loaded properly
But from here, when I call setResult(..) and finish(), my MainList activity never receives the new/updated result. Anyone know what I'm doing wrong?
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Sep 10, 2010
I've been learning Android and have come across an issue with launchMode="singleTask". The documentation states that when this attribute is used, the Activity is always launched into a new task as the root Activity. Secondly, the documentation states that if an Intent is targeted at such an Activity when there are Activities sitting above it in its task stack, such Intents are discarded (although the task is still brought to the foreground).I've been playing around with this, and the behaviour I observe is completely different. In particular:
- Activities with launchMode="singleTask" are not always the root Activity in a task stack. They are just plonked ontop of the existing stack with the same affinity.
- When an Intent is targeted at such an Activity and there are other Activities above it in the stack, the Intent is not discarded. Instead the Activities above it in the stack are discarded. The Intent is then delivered via onNewIntent to the Activity as normal.
Can someone confirm that this is the actual behaviour? If so, why are the documents incorrect? If not what have I done wrong.
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Nov 12, 2010
I have an application that runs in the background, and displays an error message via the notifications system. This notification has a pendingIntent that leads back the the app's main screen. On this main screen, I have set launchmode="singleTask". As I understand it from the Android Dev Guide, this should mean that my main activity will only ever have one instance.However, if the user is viewing that activity at the time (or another one within the app), and goes and touches the notification to clear it, it goes ahead and puts another copy of the activity on the stack, so if I hit the back button, it will return to the main screen again (from the main screen).
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Mar 31, 2010
I have an app with two activities, one of which the launchmode is set to "singleTask". From the Android dev guide, I got the impression that my SingleTaskActivity should start a new task (or reuse an old task) and always sit at the root of the stack when launched.
However, it's inconsistent with the behavior of the app if I follow the steps below: - launch StandardActivity from home - click the "home" key - launch SingleTaskActivity from home, you will see it's in the foreground as expected - click the "Back" key, StandardActivity comes to the foreground whereas I expect to see the home screen because SingleTaskActivity is supposed to be at the ROOT of the stack. It appears SingleTaskActivity was launched into the task that StandardActivity started, rather than starting its own task.
Is my understanding about the "singleTask" launch mode correct?
=== The Android Dev guide (http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ manifest/activity-element.html#lmode) says:
In contrast, "singleTask" and "singleInstance" activities can only begin a task. They are always at the root of the activity stack. Moreover, the device can hold only one instance of the activity at a time — only one such task.
CODE:.....................
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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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Feb 18, 2010
I have an activity, ActivityA, and its launchMode is set to "singleTask".I start the application from the app tray. ActivityA launches ActivityB from a button click. ActivityB is a normal activity with no launchMode set ("standard").With ActivityB on top of the activity stack, I hit the home button, then resume the app, I see ActivityA instead of ActivityB when resumed.Shouldn't the history stack be preserved in this case, and B be showing? When I resume, I see A get onNewIntent() called, and I'm not sure why this is happening. I thought the stack would be preserved.
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In a number of questions (like this one) I have been looking into how to "change screens" in my app. I have a "header" on top, with 4 buttons. Each button is meant to replace the "content" (ie change screen):
+--------------------+
| menu with buttons |
+--------------------+
| |
| |
| C O N T E N T |
| |
| |
+--------------------+
When I click a Menu button, I run the following code:
CODE:..............
As you can see, the startActivity is executed. Now, if I do not specify "launchMode" for the Activity that means that launchMode = normal. If launchMode == normal that means that the Activity will be re-created each and every time I navigate using the top header buttons, and that means that all data entered in "form elements" are gone (or at least hidden).
So, I found the launchMode "singleTask" that sounded sort of nice. If I add that launchMode to my Activity, it will not be re-created when I navigate with the buttons, thus keeping state. Great! Well, until I read this:
As noted above, there's never more than one instance of a "singleTask" or "singleInstance" activity, so that instance is expected to handle all new intents.
I found out that the sentence mean that there can be only one Activity that has the launchMode set to "singleTask" - if I have more than one it wont work (no compiler error though).
This means that I can only "keep the state" for one Activity, when switching back and forth (navigating) between my screens!
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I've come across a very annoying problem, which only seems to happen when I launch my app from eclipse for testing. If I launch it normally, it doesn't seem to have this problem.
This is how I can reproduce it: - Launch app via Eclipse - Press Home - Relaunch app via icon - Click menu->exit which tells the Service to clean up and calls finish () when the Service finishes cleaning up
For some reason, there seem to be two instances of the activity, one exits normally and the other one gains focus. Clicking exit does nothing since the Service has stopped but the Service variable is not null. Attempting to use the app launches errors since the resource it uses have been closed. I can force a close via the crash and relaunch the app, and it exits normally this time.
As I said, it only happens when launching the app via Eclipse. Anyone know what could cause this? My launchMode is set to singleTask, however, that shouldn't cause an issue, I used that mode before. I tried calling finish() regardless of the state of the Service, but it doesn't seem to help.
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Here's my activity:
CODE:.......................
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