Android :: Correct Use Of TaskAffinity & LaunchModes ?
Sep 28, 2009
My android app contains a suite of mini apps. In short, the main screen contains several icons, one each for the mini apps. When an icon is clicked, the mini app is launched.
In total I have 4 mini apps. So you could imagine that my main screen is like the Home Screen Launcher. Although these mini apps could run standalone by their own, I want the user to be authenticated. Thus there is a LoginActivity right before the MainActivity.
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I'm still not pretty sure of the benefit of Tasks (arranged set of Activities), so I would like comments from Android experts on my design decisions:-
(1) I plan to set the attribute finishOnTaskLaunch to true for LoginActivity. As I understand it, once the login is authenticated, I will navigate the user to MainActivity, and I want LoginActivity to disappear. Is this better than calling #finish on the Activity ? Will MainActivity automatically become the root of the Task without any extra configuration/code ?
(2) One of the mini app is an IM client. The PresenceListActivity will hosts many instances of ChatActivity (one-to-one chat session with an active contact in the buddylist). I plan to use the default launchmode for ChatActivity since each Chat should be handled by a new instance. Sounds correct ?
(3) A sticky navigation bar will exists in the top corner of AppOneActivity, AppTwoActivity etc.. I plan to set the clearTaskOnLaunch attribute to true for all of them. As I understand it, I should clear the stack whenever I plan to launch into any of the mini apps. Also their launchModes will be singleTask. Am I on the right path ?
(4) Finally I don't really understand how to read the output of adb shell dumpsys activity. For example
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Sometimes underneath the Tasks, you will see History and in others Running, what do these mean ? Even stranger, sometimes I have two History under a task.
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I have a problem about taskAffinity of Activity. Activities A and B with the same taskAffinity.
A starts B with FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK and the B starts A with FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK again. Dumpsys activity of system gives us task stack like below: TOP-> A B A
According to SDK's reference to FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK, the result is supposed to be like below: TOP -> A B
If we did not set taskAffinity, A will not be created again but in different task stack from B. (A and B are in different Apps)
After a little more research, we found FLAG_ACTIVITY_REORDER_TO_FRONT is what we want.
My question is whether SDK' reference to FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK is wrong?
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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):
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| menu with buttons |
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| C O N T E N T |
| |
| |
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When I click a Menu button, I run the following code:
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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 have double checked my JSONArray data and made sure they are not duplicates. It seems to keep adding the first object over and over.
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This would start a new activity, and then close the current Activity forever, right?
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Log Cat error log
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My manifest file:
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public class MainActivity extends ListActivity { TextView selection; String[] items={"sodium", "O2", "C02", "HCL", "NaCl", "H2So4", "O3", "Ag"}; String names[] = new String[10]; static int i=0; int posarray[] = new int[10]; @Override public void onCreate(Bundle icicle) { super.onCreate(icicle); setContentView(R.layout.main); setListAdapter(new ArrayAdapter<String>(this, android.R.layout.simple_list_item_multiple_choice, items)); .........
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The code successfully sets an onClickListener for the button (also in DetailActivity.onCreate).
Has anyone seen anything like this before? I would appreciate any help figuring out what is wrong.
Here are more details because I wonder if the problem has to do with the use of the Views :
The Activity1 extends TabActivity and sets a TabHost view that contains a FrameLayout along with the TabWidget. Activity1 creates the tabs dynamically.
Activity2 extends ListActivity and sets the content to its ListView (via setContentView(getListView()).
When ListActivity.onListItemClick is invoked (item in list is selected), a new Intent is created that contains an identifier in a Bundle and Activity3 is started.
The started activity (in Activity3.onCreate...) sets the content to a TableLayout view defined in a .xml file (via setContentView(R.layout.details.xml).
Here is the code from Activity3.onCreate :
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