App completely restarting when launched by icon press in launcher

Question

I\'m in the process of trying to make a release build of my first android app to send to a few testers. However, I ran into a problem with it. When you exit the app and then

Answer 1

I had the same problem with an application and I resolved this behavior adding flag "android:launchMode="singleTop"" instead of "android:launchMode="singleTask"" in the <activity> declaration of your AndroidManifest.xml file. Hope this will help somebody.

Answer 2

You can try to set android:alwaysRetainTaskState="true" for your launcher activity in AndroidManifest.xml.

    <activity
        android:name=".YourMainActivity"
        android:alwaysRetainTaskState="true">
        <intent-filter>
            <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />
            <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
        </intent-filter>
    </activity>

For details you can see https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/manifest/activity-element.html#always