I have an app and if the app crashes in a particular activity, it restarts at one of the intermediate parent activities.
This is a problem for me since I have some inputted user info that is lost upon crash.
Is there any way to force the app to start from the launcher screen after restarting from a crash?
Thanks.
Proposed Solution 1 -
Add this tag android:clearTaskOnLaunch="true"
in the manifest.xml file to your main activity which should always launch.
Probable Reason why it did not work
When the application crashes, it throws an Exception
and we need to handle the Exception
and otherwise we would not get the expected behavior
Proposed Solution 2
Try to handle any uncaught Exception and tell the system what to do. To implement this, try the below steps.
- Create a class extending
Application
Class
- Handle
uncaughtException
in your Application
subclass.
- In your launcher
Activity
, call your Application
class.
- After catching an Exception, start your main
Activity
(as per your requirement).
Code Sample
Step 1 and 2
package com.casestudy.intentsandfilter;
import android.app.Application;
import android.content.Intent;
public class MyApplication extends Application
{
@Override
public void onCreate() {
super.onCreate();
Thread.setDefaultUncaughtExceptionHandler(
new Thread.UncaughtExceptionHandler() {
@Override
public void uncaughtException (Thread thread, Throwable e) {
handleUncaughtException (thread, e);
}
});
}
private void handleUncaughtException (Thread thread, Throwable e) {
// The following shows what I'd like, though it won't work like this.
Intent intent = new Intent (getApplicationContext(),DrawView.class);
startActivity(intent);
// Add some code logic if needed based on your requirement
}
}
Step 3
public class MainActivity extends Activity {
protected MyApplication app;
@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.main);
// Get the application instance
app = (MyApplication)getApplication();
.............
}
}
Step 4
Modify the below method as per your requirement
private void handleUncaughtException (Thread thread, Throwable e) {
// The following shows what I'd like, though it won't work like this.
Intent intent = new Intent (getApplicationContext(), HomeActivity.class);
startActivity(intent);
// Add some code logic if needed based on your requirement
}
I would recommend using library such as
https://github.com/Ereza/CustomActivityOnCrash
As the library takes care of other stuff along with different versions of android.
Maybe there's no way to do that but you can flag it so you know if the activity was started through user action or if it was just started after a crash.
i.e when you start the parent activity, pass something into the startActivity intent. If that isn't there then it was started after the crash.
I managed to start my main activity with intent.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK);
like this:
private void handleUncaughtException (Thread thread, Throwable e)
{
Intent intent = new Intent (getApplicationContext(), MainActivity.class);
intent.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK);
startActivity(intent);
}
first create and set the App
class in your AndroidManifest.xml
and
android:name=".App"
android:clearTaskOnLaunch="true"
then put this code in the App class
public class App extends Application {
@Override
public void onCreate() {
super.onCreate();
Thread.setDefaultUncaughtExceptionHandler(
new Thread.UncaughtExceptionHandler() {
@Override
public void uncaughtException(Thread thread, Throwable e) {
Log.d("AppCrash", "Error just lunched ");
}
});
}}
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