I m writing a simple Android app, and I d like better control over the navigation/relationship between the activities. I don t want my activities to act like android activities...I don t want them to stack up within the Task. I want one Activity (let s call it MainActivity) to be the landing point and always be at the bottom of the stack, and I want only one instance of my second activity (call it SecondActivity) to be above it in the stack...would be nice to reuse it as well. I thought I could get this behavior by making MainActivity be the "main" Activity, and declare them both as launchMode=singleTop. This isn t working at all. I provide navigation between them using menus, so when I go back and forth a bunch of times and back out of the app, I go through the whole stack.
How s the best way to have fine control over the Task s Activity stack? I want MainActivity to always back out of the app, and SecondActivity to always back into a single instance of MainActivity. As well, I d love to get singleTop working so I would use onNewIntent instead of creating and destroying every time. Using the manifest as well as the intent flag is just not working. Any ideas?