Question

I’ve been trying to find the solution for the following problem, but with no success:
I have an activity class that is showing web pages(presentation) which need to be logged (what user entered, duration, etc.). On some pages there are buttons which should open new presentation.
Calling activity – CLMWebView.class:

Intent intent = new Intent(this, CLMWebView.class);
this.startActivity(intent);

Between those lines of code are some intent.putExtra which are, I belive, not relevant for this.
As you can see, I am trying to start new activity with the same class as the calling activity. However, nothing happens. Any ideas?

EDIT:
Android manifest for CLMWebView.class

<activity android:name="com.msoft.views.CLMWebView"
    android:configChanges="orientation|keyboard" 
    android:icon="@drawable/svicon" 
    android:launchMode="singleTop">
        <intent-filter>
            <action android:name="android.intent.action.PICK"/>
            <action android:name="android.intent.action.CHOOSER" />
            <action android:name="android.intent.action.WEB_SEARCH" />
        </intent-filter>
</activity>

Answer 1

singleTop activity, visible, and in same task is not recreated.

Quoting the official docs:

Similarly, a new instance of a “singleTop” activity may also be
created to handle a new intent. However, if the target task already
has an existing instance of the activity at the top of its stack, that
instance will receive the new intent (in an onNewIntent() call); a new
instance is not created. In other circumstances — for example, if an
existing instance of the “singleTop” activity is in the target task,
but not at the top of the stack, or if it’s at the top of a stack, but
not in the target task — a new instance would be created and pushed on
the stack.

A better alternative will be to place the functionality in a fragment, and add a new fragment to back stack each time.