Re: [android-developers] how to-Start new activity with also current activity running

On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 9:29 PM, HK <android.out.there@gmail.com> wrote:
> The behavior I am looking for which I think not supported by Android:
> Activity A is running which I do not have much control, it doesn't belong to
> me.
> I start Activity B whose only purpose is to display some dialogs. When I
> start Activity B, Activity A's onPause is called and this onPause draws the
> screen blank.
> So I was expecting some solution where Activity A's onPause is not called. I
> know this is not normally possible with Android's concept, so I was hoping
> if some developers in this forum has some tweaks.

Sorry, but onPause() is always called if some other activity takes
over the foreground.

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