Question

for some special needs of my software development work i need to have a activity paused (not visible), but not finaliced.

I read this on the android developers guide:

Activity Lifecycle
If an activity is completely obscured by another activity, it is stopped. It still retains all state and member information, however, it is no longer visible to the user so its window is hidden and it will often be killed by the system when memory is needed elsewhere.

I need that, to have a activity stopped, but not finalized. If i use finish(), the activity can’t be referenced, and i need to reference it on my other activities for some special hard needs.

I dont need finish(), because this:

Finish(): Call this when your activity is done and should be closed. The
ActivityResult is propagated back to whoever launched you via
onActivityResult().

Thanks

Answer 1

I think you should go to Home activity to complete your activity like this:

       //do something to finish activity before this
        Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_MAIN);
        intent.addCategory(Intent.CATEGORY_HOME);
        intent.setFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK);
        startActivity(intent);