Question

I am experiencing a weird behavior on my android application. When I open my application, I see my DashboardActivity, then I hit home button or back button and my application closes. This is ok. Then I receive a push message and with this push message I create a notification. The notification works fine, I click the notification and it opens my activity, using the code below:

Intent notificationIntent = new Intent(context, BookingOfferActivity.class);
notificationIntent.setFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_TOP | Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_SINGLE_TOP);
Bundle b = new Bundle();
b.putSerializable("booking", booking);
notificationIntent.putExtras(b);

PendingIntent contentIntent = PendingIntent.getActivity(context, 0, notificationIntent, 0);

Then I execute some task in this BookingOfferActivity activity and call the method finish() to make sure this activity will be finished no matter what. Then I open my application again, but instead of seeing the DashboardActivity I am still seeing BookingOfferActivity.

I have tried the solution proposed here:

Prevent new activity instance after clicking on notification

but it just doesnt work.

Is there a way to force my application to always open on the DashboardActivity?

Thanks

T

Answer 1

That is strange behaviour considering you are calling finish()

Try setting

android:noHistory="true"
android:launchMode="singleInstance"

in the manifest for the BookingOfferActivity