Android - Resume an activity from other application

Question

I have two apps A(activity A1, A2, A3) and B(activity B1, B2). My process like this:

A1 -> A2 -> A3 -> B1 -> B2

My question is: from activity B2, how to resume to the existed activity A3 - no creating a new activity A3 - like switching 2 applications by using multi-task button?

Thanks,

Answer 1

You need singleTop to make the activity always use the same instance, then in that activity onNewIntent will be triggered whenever we return there from another activity (via intent)

<manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" package="..." >
<application ...>
    <!-- android:launchMode="singleTop" makes sure we reuse the same instance -->
    <activity android:name=".A3Activity" android:label="@string/app_name"
        android:launchMode="singleTop">...</activity>
    ...
</application>


public class A3Activity extends Activity {
    @Override
    protected void onNewIntent(Intent intent) {
        //This is triggered onyl when re-launched
        super.onNewIntent(intent);
        //do anything new here
    }
}

public class B2Activity extends Activity {

    public void someMethod() {
        //This relaunches the A3 activity from same app
        //Intent intent = new Intent(this, A3Activity.class);

        //This does it from the other app
        Intent intent = new Intent(
        intent.setComponent(new ComponentName("com.anh", "com.anh.A3Activity"));
        startActivity(intent);
    } 

}