OnNewIntent in API 19 Android

Question

I would like to recover the android intent my activity is launched with.

My activity, tested in API 19 (KitKat), besides the main intent, has the following intent filter and parameters:

        android:alwaysRetainTaskState="false"
        android:theme="@android:style/Theme.NoTitleBar.Fullscreen"
        android:screenOrientation="landscape"
        android:configChanges="orientation|keyboardHidden|screenSize">
         <intent-filter>
            <action android:name="android.intent.action.VIEW" />
            <category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" />
            <category android:name="android.intent.category.BROWSABLE" />
            <data android:scheme="file" />
            <data android:mimeType="*/*" />
            <data android:pathPattern=".*\\.svg" />
            <data android:host="*" />
        </intent-filter>

But when I open a SVG file while the activity was running, it does not handle the new intent. I tried the following combinations, launched the activity,

android:launchMode="singleTask"

android:launchMode="standard"

android:launchMode="singleTop"

combined with the following parameter, that makes 6 configurations

android:finishOnTaskLaunch="true" or "false"

But none of them make the onNewIntent function to be called when I open a SVG with my application. Instead, it displays the previous state (onPause and onResume are called as expected, and onCreate is called instead).

The only workaround I found was to cal the finish() function from withing the onPause() method, so that it effectively terminates the application. I don't understand what is going on because it was working last year before I changed targets.

What is the required configuration to access the calling intents each time?

Related questions without answers to mine:

This blog explains that I should use "singleTop" but it is not working in my case.
This SO question does not have any answer.
This famous SO question describes the set-up of the intent. But in my case, I do not create the intent myself, android does.

did you ever figure out a solution? – CQM Oct 03 '14 at 19:32 — CQM, Oct 03 '14 at 19:32

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 04 '14 at 09:48

For the moment, my program works well and loads SVG as I wanted. Some points about my configuration (maybe it can help)

I am targeting Android API 15. I gave up with the 19.
I use android:finishOnTaskLaunch="true" in the AndroidManifest.xml
I do not call finish() in the onPause() method
OnNewIntent is never called, but the onCreate method is called which parse the new intent.

The content of the activity manifest is the following:

<activity
  android:name="com.example.mypackage"
  android:launchMode="singleTop"
  android:finishOnTaskLaunch="true"
  android:alwaysRetainTaskState="false"
  android:theme="@android:style/Theme.NoTitleBar.Fullscreen"
  android:screenOrientation="landscape"
  android:configChanges="orientation|keyboardHidden|screenSize">
  <intent-filter>
    <action android:name="android.intent.action.VIEW" />
    <category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" />
    <category android:name="android.intent.category.BROWSABLE" />
    <data android:scheme="file" />
    <data android:mimeType="*/*" />
    <data android:pathPattern=".*\\.svg" />
    <data android:host="*" />
  </intent-filter>
  <intent-filter>
    <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />
    <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
  </intent-filter>
</activity>

OnNewIntent in API 19 Android

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