Force relaunch of an activity Android

Question

I have an activity in my app which can be opened thanks to a notification. But the content of the activity depends on the kind of notification. For example : If I receive a 'a notification', the app launch the activity and this one displays 'a received'. Then, if I receive a 'b notification', the app launch the activity again and displays 'b received'. The probleme is that when the activity has already been launched once, when the 'b notification' relaunch it again, the activity still displays 'a received'. How could I force the activity to re-create depending on the Intent received?

I tried intent.setFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK | Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_TOP); but that doesn't work.

Thanks !

EDIT : after some research, I've found out that the pendingIndent was the problem. It seems that the intent passed as a parameter in PendingIntent.getActivity(ctx, 0, intent, 0) wasn't updated. I just added

intent.setAction(Long.toString(System.currentTimeMillis()));

and everything worked like a charm.

Aren't you getting anything in `onNewIntent()` that you can use? How many instances of your `Activity` do you have? — gunar, Jul 23 '13 at 19:21
No idea about how many, it depends on the notifications received. — Romain Pellerin, Jul 23 '13 at 19:27
The below answers might help you : http://stackoverflow.com/a/3974828/1534762 http://stackoverflow.com/a/3419987/1534762 — Chandru, Jul 23 '13 at 19:28

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 23 '13 at 19:31

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Finish any existing activity in 'A' or 'B' notification handler before starting the activity.

answered Jul 23 '13 at 19:31

Chandru

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 23 '13 at 19:34

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call finish() when you want to relaunch the app and then override onDestroy() and do the following.

@override
public void onDestroy()
{
   startActivity(new Intent(this,ThisDyingAcitivity.class));
}

answered Jul 23 '13 at 19:34

Umer Farooq

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Force relaunch of an activity Android

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