Back to main activity from notification-created activity

I know 2 ways of achieving this:

  1. Start your home activity from within activity started by notification. This may become quite trick, as you will have to differentiate and keep track of various possible entry points.
  2. You always start with you home activity which checks if is being started by a notification and then starts the notification activity. This ensures a consistent entry point and the back stack will be there when user press Up key.

Regards.


Aha, I simply need to use PendingIntent.getActivities() instead of getActivity(). Also worth mentioning is TaskStackBuilder

Here is some code:

    Intent backIntent = new Intent(ctx, MainActivity.class);
    backIntent.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK);

    Intent intent = new Intent(ctx, ConversationActivity.class);
    intent.putExtra("whatever", whatever);
    final PendingIntent pendingIntent = PendingIntent.getActivities(ctx, UNIQUE_REQUEST_CODE++,
            new Intent[] {backIntent, intent}, PendingIntent.FLAG_ONE_SHOT);

Just tested it. It works like a charm. I initially suspected that there might be a problem if the app is already running, and you go to a notification. I.e. say you activity stack is (topmost on the right):

[MainActivity] [SomeActivity]

and you click a notification for ConversationActivity. Would you get:?

[MainActivity] [SomeActivity] [MainActivity] [ConversationActivity]

Well, it turns out you magically get

[MainActivity] [SomeActivity] [ConversationActivity]

which is what I wanted, but I have no idea how it does that. I haven't set any special options on any of the activities. Oh well!


Intent displayIntent = new Intent(getApplicationContext(), TargetActivity.class);

displayIntent.putExtra("extra_id", "extra_key");

TaskStackBuilder stackBuilder = TaskStackBuilder.create(getApplicationContext());
stackBuilder.addParentStack(TargetActivity.class);
stackBuilder.addNextIntent(displayIntent);
stackBuilder.editIntentAt(1).putExtra("extra_id", "extra_key");

PendingIntent contentIntent = stackBuilder.getPendingIntent(0, PendingIntent.FLAG_UPDATE_CURRENT);

NotificationCompat.Builder mBuilder = new NotificationCompat.Builder(
        getApplicationContext(), "123").setSmallIcon(R.drawable.logo)
        .setContentTitle("GCM Notification")
        .setStyle(new NotificationCompat.BigTextStyle().bigText("Sample")).setContentText("sample text");

mBuilder.setContentIntent(contentIntent);

NotificationManager mNotificationManager = (NotificationManager) getSystemService(Context.NOTIFICATION_SERVICE);
mNotificationManager.notify(456, mBuilder.build());
stackBuilder.startActivities();

In addition to the above code also provide appropriate parent class names in your AndroidManifest.xml file.


There is a new guide on how to do this, and it suggest some slightly different practices than the answers above:

https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/notifiers/notifications.html#NotificationResponse

Note, don't actually use 0 for your requestCode in getPendingIntent. For me any number not 0 worked, but 0 resulted in the back button just going to the launcher.

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