android-activity Archives - Page 4 of 6

Removing an activity from the history stack

My app shows a signup activity the first time the user runs the app, looks like: ActivitySplashScreen (welcome to game, sign up for ...

May 8, 2022
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Finish all previous activities

My application has the following flow screens : Home->screen 1->screen 2->screen 3->screen 4->screen 5 Now I have a common log out button in ...

May 7, 2022
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How to restart Activity in Android

How do I restart an Android Activity? I tried the following, but the Activity simply quits. public static void restartActivity(Activity act){ Intent intent=new ...

May 7, 2022
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Calling startActivity() from outside of an Activity context

I have implemented a ListView in my Android application. I bind to this ListView using a custom subclass of the ArrayAdapter class. Inside ...

May 6, 2022
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Change application’s starting activity

I have created the meat and guts of my application but I want to add a different activity that will be the starting ...

May 6, 2022
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getApplication() vs. getApplicationContext()

I couldn’t find a satisfying answer to this, so here we go: what’s the deal with Activity/Service.getApplication() and Context.getApplicationContext()? In our application, both ...

May 6, 2022
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How to handle screen orientation change when progress dialog and background thread active?

My program does some network activity in a background thread. Before starting, it pops up a progress dialog. The dialog is dismissed on ...

May 2, 2022
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Android: Go back to previous activity

I want to do something simple on android app. How is it possible to go back to a previous activity. What code do ...

April 30, 2022
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Why fragments, and when to use fragments instead of activities?

In Android API 11+, Google has released a new class called Fragment. In the videos, Google suggests that whenever possible (link1, link2), we ...

April 30, 2022
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Example: Communication between Activity and Service using Messaging

I couldn’t find any examples of how to send messages between an activity and a service, and I have spent far too many ...

April 30, 2022
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