onActivityResult do not fire if launch mode of activity is singleInstance

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sajjoo picture sajjoo · Feb 25, 2011 · Viewed 14.1k times · Source

I have an Activity which is basically my main activity and its launch mode is single instance. But because of singleInstance, the onActivityResult() callback does not fire. And if I change the launch mode in my manifest file to any other mode it works fine.

Can you explain why this callback is not working?

Answer

Pedro Loureiro picture Pedro Loureiro · Feb 25, 2011

I believe that the problem is that singleInstance doesn't let the callee activity to exist in the same task as the caller, hence it can't return the value to the caller.

Consider using singleTask instead:

singleTask

The system creates the activity at the root of a new task and routes the intent to it. However, if an instance of the activity already exists, the system routes the intent to existing instance through a call to its onNewIntent() method, rather than creating a new one.

singleInstance

Same as "singleTask", except that the system doesn't launch any other activities into the task holding the instance. The activity is always the single and only member of its task.

http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/manifest/activity-element.html

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