Android Activity Lifecycle: onStart() -> onStop() possible?

Question

In the Android Application Fundamentals it says that after the call to the onStart()-method of the activity lifecycle either the callback method onResume() or

Answer 1

According to the flowchart on the page provided, it is not possible for onStop() to be called without onResume() being called. I could think of some potential scenario in which the system shuts down the application in the middle of starting it up, but I have no clue what or how such a scenario would be triggered, or if it even exists.

As pointed out by Tseng, it's possible that a task will never be brought to the foreground (I'm thinking of say, the task that syncs the phone with an Exchange server). I imagine Such a task will never have onResume() or onPause() called.