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Asked: 2026-06-11T13:30:31+00:00

I’m writing a kiosk-like micro-browser which opens specific pages based on payload of specific

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I’m writing a kiosk-like micro-browser which opens specific pages based on payload of specific scanned RFID tags.

In order to both provide a method for reopening the app (the app is for public use) and handling all RFID scans, I’m trying to make my app handle all android.nfc.action.NDEF_DISCOVERED actions with a single instance of the main activity.

Currently, every time a new RFID tg is scanned, a new instance of my activity opens, whether or not there was one already open.
Obviously, this is not ideal. Can a single instance of an activity handle all of these implicit intents?

I’ve already looked at using the singleTop attribute and flag, but I don’t know of a way to set a flag for an implicit intent caused by an external system-generated intent, ie discovering an NFC tag.

this is my first time asking my own question here, so I’m sorry if that didn’t make much sense.

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  1. Editorial Team

    This link answered the question for me, as explained in the comment i made (before I could answer this myself).

    http://www.java2s.com/Code/Android/Core-Class/AnexampleofhowtousetheNFCforegrounddispatchAPIs.htm

    My problem was I didn’t know of/use a PendingIntent, which seems to be some kind of archetype you can use to specify properties (namely the eponymous flags) to later types of Intents.

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