onStart of new Activity is called before onStop of parent

Question

I\'ve got an application. I use startActivity() to start activity.

Can anyone actually tell me why system is calling onStart() of new Activity

Answer 1

If you have a read of the Activity Lifecycle documentation onStop is only called when the current activity is replaced by a new (or previous) one.

For that to happen the other application has to start or resume... otherwise there would be a gap

onPause of the current activity is (I would expect) called before the onStart of the replacing Activity