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Subject: Re: [android-developers] how to-Start new activity with also
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Ok.

So,  in Activity A's onPause, is it possible to find which activity is 
launched ? i.e., when Activity B is launched, is it possible to find in 
Activity A's onPause that Activity B is launched ?

On Wednesday, September 5, 2012 10:40:34 AM UTC+9, Mark Murphy (a Commons 
Guy) wrote:
>
> On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 9:29 PM, HK <android....@gmail.com <javascript:>> 
> 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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Ok.<br><br>So,&nbsp; in Activity A's onPause, is it possible to find which activity is launched ? i.e., when Activity B is launched, is it possible to find in Activity A's onPause that Activity B is launched ?<br><br>On Wednesday, September 5, 2012 10:40:34 AM UTC+9, Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0;margin-left: 0.8ex;border-left: 1px #ccc solid;padding-left: 1ex;">On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 9:29 PM, HK &lt;<a href="javascript:" target="_blank" gdf-obfuscated-mailto="A1stm9C6IRYJ">android....@gmail.com</a>&gt; wrote:
<br>&gt; The behavior I am looking for which I think not supported by Android:
<br>&gt; Activity A is running which I do not have much control, it doesn't belong to
<br>&gt; me.
<br>&gt; I start Activity B whose only purpose is to display some dialogs. When I
<br>&gt; start Activity B, Activity A's onPause is called and this onPause draws the
<br>&gt; screen blank.
<br>&gt; So I was expecting some solution where Activity A's onPause is not called. I
<br>&gt; know this is not normally possible with Android's concept, so I was hoping
<br>&gt; if some developers in this forum has some tweaks.
<br>
<br>Sorry, but onPause() is always called if some other activity takes
<br>over the foreground.
<br>
<br>-- 
<br>Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy)
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