Android activity recreate itself

Question

My app normally works just fine, until I face a strange problem on specific device. There are 2 activities in App. After I start ActivityB inside of ActivityA, ActivityA starts

Answer 1

Have you tried changing the launchmode in the Android Manifest? Try adding this to your Activity declaration:

android:launchMode="singleTask"

Next, try using startActivityForResult, instead of startActivity. This will force Activity A to call its onActivityResult(int, int, Intent) method when Activity B finishes - which may skip this (buggy) call to onCreate. Then, in Activity A, implement the method to do something (such as printing a debug statement):

@Override
protected void onActivityResult(int requestCode, int resultCode, Intent data)
{
    Log.i("Test", "Did this work???");
    //TODO send notification to your server to verify this works?
}