[android-developers] Re: finish on child activity is calling onDestroy on parent

Activity A is still getting killed off the stack forcing a full
restart.

~Michael

On Jan 18, 4:00 pm, Mark Murphy <mmur...@commonsware.com> wrote:
> Replace startActivityForResult() with startActivity(), and try it again.
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> On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 6:54 PM, Michael <michaeldh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
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> > I have a Motorola Xoom and a Sony S exhibiting this behavior. Both
> > running Android 3.2.
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> > I have Activity A and Activity B. Activity A handles UI, Activity B
> > handles the Android MediaPlayer. Activity A launches Activity B with a
> > startActivityForResult.
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> > I have a requirement to assume that the power button press means
> > "close the player and return to the UI" so I do a finish() in
> > Activities B's onPause() since it is handling the MediaPlayer. So
> > during playback, I press the power button and press it again to wake
> > up the screen and I notice my whole app restarts. I put some logs in
> > and I'm seeing this:
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> > ActivityA: onDestroy
> > ActivityB: onDestroy
> > ActivityA: onActivityResult
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> > I'm left scratching my head. If I call a finish() on Activity B,
> > shouldn't it be popping that Activity alone off the application stack?
> > Even doing a setResult(RESULT_OK) before the finish() doesn't help.
> > How is Activity A being popped off before Activity B as the parent?
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> > Any suggestions on how to debug this problem would be greatly
> > appreciated.
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