Starting a new activity from another and passing some data to it is a simple and basic thing in android. But if you want an already running activity to come to foreground, and pass data to it, it can be a bit tricky.
First of all by default if you call an activity with an intent, a new istance of that activity will be created and displayed, even if another instance is already running. To avoid this the activity must be flagged that, it should not be instantiated multiple times. To achieve this we will set the launchMode of the activity to singleTask in the AndroidManifest.xml
<activity android:name="Activity1" android:launchMode="singleTask"android:label="@string/app_name">
This way when we call this activity using an intent, if there is an existing instance, the system will route the request to it. Hoever the onCreate method, where we usually process the passed extraData, will not run this time.
Sony released it's multimedia oriented smartphone, called Xperia Arc, in January of 2011. The device running Android 2.3, with a couple of apple-like ui effects. The outside is also well designed, it's only 8,7 mm and weights 117 gramm.
As you probably have heard, there were some troubles with the Google Mail accounts a couple of weeks ago. As all of us, Android users have GMail accounts, we were thinking about sharing our findings how to make a backup on our mails in the GMail account.
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