[mono-android] SplashActivity and single instance

[Tomasz Cielecki]

Did you remember to set your splash screen activity to not be in the
history?
On Jan 11, 2012 10:21 PM, "devbuzz" <derek at fieldmetrix.com> wrote:

> 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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