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Asked: 2026-05-31T01:29:38+00:00

I have a two activity application. One is a HomePage. Another is a DataPage

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I have a two activity application. One is a “HomePage”. Another is a “DataPage” activity that just contains a webview. When the user clicks on a button on the HomePage, I show the DataPage and load the URL. The problem is the URL is a very slow loading page. I want to solve that problem by creating both activities when my app is open. The home page will be visible, the DataPage will be hidden. I will immediately start the WebView of the DataPage so that it loads in the background. Then when the user clicks on the button, I will reveal the DataPage, with most of its data already loaded.

I dont know how to create an activity in an initially hidden state. And then bring that activity into the front? Is there a way of doing that?

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  1. Editorial Team

    If your Activity is not in the foreground, then it either has never been created, its in the Paused state, or in the Stopped state. You won’t be able to have it render itself in the background during any of those times. You can read more about that here which contains the following flow chart of an Activity's lifecycle:

    Activity Lifecycle Flowchart

    There are a variety of ways to retrieve data through a background thread. Would it be possible to download the page as a locally cached file, so the DataPage only needs to render the HTML/CSS/JavaScript when it opens? If the rendering page is the bottleneck, this won’t help you much though.

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