[mono-android] SplashActivity and single instance

[devbuzz]

I've run into an issue implementing my splash screen. I used the
SplashActivity example and everything works the first time I run my app.

Since my application launches a service to retrieve data in the background I
don't want multiple instances of the app running. If you are running the
app, press home and then click the icon to launch the application I expect a
currently running instance to be activated. But this is not happening - I
get a new instance of the SplashScreen.

I think this is happening because the SplashActivity is designated as the
mainlauncher and not my main home screen (as per the SplashActivity demo).
Also I don't want to leave the SplashScreen in memory - I call Finish() on
the SplashScreen once my main home screen is loaded so that you don't see
the SplashScreen when you hit the back button (perhaps this is part of the
problem ?)

So my question is how do I architect this so:
a) my app starts with a SplashScreen
b) the SplashScreen shows a login screen which if successful shows
c) my main home screen
d) and then if you navigate away and then click the icon to launch my app I
want it to not show the SplashScreen but rather go directly to the running
instance of my main home screen.

TIA

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