Can someone please explain how startActivity(intent) and startActivityForResult(intent) are Asynchronous?

Question

If an Asynchronous thread is a thread that operates separately to the main thread and doesn\'t interfere with the main thread...

Does a new Activity not occ

Answer 1

When you startActivityForResult you still perform an asynchronous call. Your caller activity gets suspended and the new is started in another process (if it runs under a different user).

But when the called activity terminates setting a result, your activity is resumed and you get onActivityResult called as a callback containing the result.