when my android app - Activity B - is moved to the background (by the user pressing the android home button), it is still alive, onStop() was called as expected.
Activity B has not been destroyed here, but when the user clicks on the app's icon again, it calls the intent-filter MAIN and LAUNCHER again, starting Activity A, instead of calling onResume() on Activity B.
so the launch activity is shown - Activity A - , but if the user presses android back button, then launch activity finishes() , and the old activity - Activity B - is shown!
what should happen when Activity B is moved to the background is that Activity B is paused and stopped. When the app is resumed by pressing the app icon, Activity B should be resumed. (unless it was killed and destroyed, which it hasn't been)
How do I fix this? Activity B is originally opened by Activity A using
Intent next = new Intent(ActivityA.this, ActivityB.class);
startActivity(next);
finish();
Here is the manifest entry for Activity B
<activity android:name=".ActivityB"
android:screenOrientation="portrait"
android:label="@string/app_name"
android:configChanges="orientation|keyboardHidden">
</activity>
Here is the manifest entry for Activity A
<activity android:name=".Activity A"
android:screenOrientation="portrait"
android:label="@string/app_name"
android:configChanges="orientation|keyboardHidden">
<intent-filter>
<action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />
<category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
</intent-filter>
</activity>
why is this happening and how do I fix it?
