Bring application back to front

Question

My application is a timer with alarm type app. When the timer expires i would like to bring the app\'s main activity back into view, if the user has navigated away, but the app

Answer 1

You should put your timer in a Service, that way you're assured that Android won't kill your application while it's in background. (You can put your whole MyCount class in a service).

From the service you can always bring your application (Activity) to the front:

Intent intent = new Intent(getBaseContext(), TimerActivity.class);
intent.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK);
intent.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_BROUGHT_TO_FRONT);
startActivity(intent);