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Activity

public class Activity
extends ContextThemeWrapper implements LayoutInflater.Factory2, Window.Callback, KeyEvent.Callback, View.OnCreateContextMenuListener, ComponentCallbacks2

java.lang.Object
   ↳ android.content.Context
     ↳ android.content.ContextWrapper
       ↳ android.view.ContextThemeWrapper
         ↳ android.app.Activity
Known Direct Subclasses
Known Indirect Subclasses


An activity is a single, focused thing that the user can do. Almost all activities interact with the user, so the Activity class takes care of creating a window for you in which you can place your UI with setContentView(View). While activities are often presented to the user as full-screen windows, they can also be used in other ways: as floating windows (via a theme with windowIsFloating set) or embedded inside of another activity (using ActivityGroup). There are two methods almost all subclasses of Activity will implement:

To be of use with Context.startActivity(), all activity classes must have a corresponding <activity> declaration in their package's AndroidManifest.xml.

Topics covered here:

  1. Fragments
  2. Activity Lifecycle
  3. Configuration Changes
  4. Starting Activities and Getting Results
  5. Saving Persistent State
  6. Permissions
  7. Process Lifecycle

Developer Guides

The Activity class is an important part of an application's overall lifecycle, and the way activities are launched and put together is a fundamental part of the platform's application model. For a detailed perspective on the structure of an Android application and how activities behave, please read the Application Fundamentals and Tasks and Back Stack developer guides.

You can also find a detailed discussion about how to create activities in the Activities developer guide.

Fragments

Starting with HONEYCOMB, Activity implementations can make use of the Fragment class to better modularize their code, build more sophisticated user interfaces for larger screens, and help scale their application between small and large screens.

Activity Lifecycle

Activities in the system are managed as an activity stack. When a new activity is started, it is placed on the top of the stack and becomes the running activity -- the previous activity always remains below it in the stack, and will not come to the foreground again until the new activity exits.

An activity has essentially four states:

The following diagram shows the important state paths of an Activity. The square rectangles represent callback methods you can implement to perform operations when the Activity moves between states. The colored ovals are major states the Activity can be in.

State diagram for an Android Activity Lifecycle.

There are three key loops you may be interested in monitoring within your activity:

The entire lifecycle of an activity is defined by the following Activity methods. All of these are hooks that you can override to do appropriate work when the activity changes state. All activities will implement onCreate(Bundle) to do their initial setup; many will also implement onPause() to commit changes to data and otherwise prepare to stop interacting with the user. You should always call up to your superclass when implementing these methods.

 public class Activity extends ApplicationContext {
     protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState);

     protected void onStart();

     protected void onRestart();

     protected void onResume();

     protected void onPause();

     protected void onStop();

     protected void onDestroy();
 }
 

In general the movement through an activity's lifecycle looks like this:

Method Description Killable? Next
onCreate() Called when the activity is first created. This is where you should do all of your normal static set up: create views, bind data to lists, etc. This method also provides you with a Bundle containing the activity's previously frozen state, if there was one.

Always followed by onStart().

No onStart()
     onRestart() Called after your activity has been stopped, prior to it being started again.

Always followed by onStart()

No onStart()
onStart() Called when the activity is becoming visible to the user.

Followed by onResume() if the activity comes to the foreground, or onStop() if it becomes hidden.

No onResume() or onStop()
     onResume() Called when the activity will start interacting with the user. At this point your activity is at the top of the activity stack, with user input going to it.

Always followed by onPause().

No onPause()
onPause() Called when the system is about to start resuming a previous activity. This is typically used to commit unsaved changes to persistent data, stop animations and other things that may be consuming CPU, etc. Implementations of this method must be very quick because the next activity will not be resumed until this method returns.

Followed by either onResume() if the activity returns back to the front, or onStop() if it becomes invisible to the user.

Pre-HONEYCOMB onResume() or
onStop()
onStop() Called when the activity is no longer visible to the user, because another activity has been resumed and is covering this one. This may happen either because a new activity is being started, an existing one is being brought in front of this one, or this one is being destroyed.

Followed by either onRestart() if this activity is coming back to interact with the user, or onDestroy() if this activity is going away.

Yes onRestart() or
onDestroy()
onDestroy() The final call you receive before your activity is destroyed. This can happen either because the activity is finishing (someone called finish() on it, or because the system is temporarily destroying this instance of the activity to save space. You can distinguish between these two scenarios with the isFinishing() method. Yes nothing

Note the "Killable" column in the above table -- for those methods that are marked as being killable, after that method returns the process hosting the activity may be killed by the system at any time without another line of its code being executed. Because of this, you should use the onPause() method to write any persistent data (such as user edits) to storage. In addition, the method onSaveInstanceState(Bundle) is called before placing the activity in such a background state, allowing you to save away any dynamic instance state in your activity into the given Bundle, to be later received in onCreate(Bundle) if the activity needs to be re-created. See the Process Lifecycle section for more information on how the lifecycle of a process is tied to the activities it is hosting. Note that it is important to save persistent data in onPause() instead of onSaveInstanceState(Bundle) because the latter is not part of the lifecycle callbacks, so will not be called in every situation as described in its documentation.

Be aware that these semantics will change slightly between applications targeting platforms starting with HONEYCOMB vs. those targeting prior platforms. Starting with Honeycomb, an application is not in the killable state until its onStop() has returned. This impacts when onSaveInstanceState(Bundle) may be called (it may be safely called after onPause() and allows and application to safely wait until onStop() to save persistent state.

For those methods that are not marked as being killable, the activity's process will not be killed by the system starting from the time the method is called and continuing after it returns. Thus an activity is in the killable state, for example, between after onPause() to the start of onResume().

Configuration Changes

If the configuration of the device (as defined by the Resources.Configuration class) changes, then anything displaying a user interface will need to update to match that configuration. Because Activity is the primary mechanism for interacting with the user, it includes special support for handling configuration changes.

Unless you specify otherwise, a configuration change (such as a change in screen orientation, language, input devices, etc) will cause your current activity to be destroyed, going through the normal activity lifecycle process of onPause(), onStop(), and onDestroy() as appropriate. If the activity had been in the foreground or visible to the user, once onDestroy() is called in that instance then a new instance of the activity will be created, with whatever savedInstanceState the previous instance had generated from onSaveInstanceState(Bundle).

This is done because any application resource, including layout files, can change based on any configuration value. Thus the only safe way to handle a configuration change is to re-retrieve all resources, including layouts, drawables, and strings. Because activities must already know how to save their state and re-create themselves from that state, this is a convenient way to have an activity restart itself with a new configuration.

In some special cases, you may want to bypass restarting of your activity based on one or more types of configuration changes. This is done with the android:configChanges attribute in its manifest. For any types of configuration changes you say that you handle there, you will receive a call to your current activity's onConfigurationChanged(Configuration) method instead of being restarted. If a configuration change involves any that you do not handle, however, the activity will still be restarted and onConfigurationChanged(Configuration) will not be called.

Starting Activities and Getting Results

The startActivity(Intent) method is used to start a new activity, which will be placed at the top of the activity stack. It takes a single argument, an Intent, which describes the activity to be executed.

Sometimes you want to get a result back from an activity when it ends. For example, you may start an activity that lets the user pick a person in a list of contacts; when it ends, it returns the person that was selected. To do this, you call the startActivityForResult(Intent, int) version with a second integer parameter identifying the call. The result will come back through your onActivityResult(int, int, Intent) method.

When an activity exits, it can call setResult(int) to return data back to its parent. It must always supply a result code, which can be the standard results RESULT_CANCELED, RESULT_OK, or any custom values starting at RESULT_FIRST_USER. In addition, it can optionally return back an Intent containing any additional data it wants. All of this information appears back on the parent's Activity.onActivityResult(), along with the integer identifier it originally supplied.

If a child activity fails for any reason (such as crashing), the parent activity will receive a result with the code RESULT_CANCELED.

 public class MyActivity extends Activity {
     ...

     static final int PICK_CONTACT_REQUEST = 0;

     public boolean onKeyDown(int keyCode, KeyEvent event) {
         if (keyCode == KeyEvent.KEYCODE_DPAD_CENTER) {
             // When the user center presses, let them pick a contact.
             startActivityForResult(
                 new Intent(Intent.ACTION_PICK,
                 new Uri("content://contacts")),
                 PICK_CONTACT_REQUEST);
            return true;
         }
         return false;
     }

     protected void onActivityResult(int requestCode, int resultCode,
             Intent data) {
         if (requestCode == PICK_CONTACT_REQUEST) {
             if (resultCode == RESULT_OK) {
                 // A contact was picked.  Here we will just display it
                 // to the user.
                 startActivity(new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW, data));
             }
         }
     }
 }
 

Saving Persistent State

There are generally two kinds of persistent state than an activity will deal with: shared document-like data (typically stored in a SQLite database using a content provider) and internal state such as user preferences.

For content provider data, we suggest that activities use a "edit in place" user model. That is, any edits a user makes are effectively made immediately without requiring an additional confirmation step. Supporting this model is generally a simple matter of following two rules:

This model is designed to prevent data loss when a user is navigating between activities, and allows the system to safely kill an activity (because system resources are needed somewhere else) at any time after it has been paused. Note this implies that the user pressing BACK from your activity does not mean "cancel" -- it means to leave the activity with its current contents saved away. Canceling edits in an activity must be provided through some other mechanism, such as an explicit "revert" or "undo" option.

See the content package for more information about content providers. These are a key aspect of how different activities invoke and propagate data between themselves.

The Activity class also provides an API for managing internal persistent state associated with an activity. This can be used, for example, to remember the user's preferred initial display in a calendar (day view or week view) or the user's default home page in a web browser.

Activity persistent state is managed with the method getPreferences(int), allowing you to retrieve and modify a set of name/value pairs associated with the activity. To use preferences that are shared across multiple application components (activities, receivers, services, providers), you can use the underlying Context.getSharedPreferences() method to retrieve a preferences object stored under a specific name. (Note that it is not possible to share settings data across application packages -- for that you will need a content provider.)

Here is an excerpt from a calendar activity that stores the user's preferred view mode in its persistent settings:

 public class CalendarActivity extends Activity {
     ...

     static final int DAY_VIEW_MODE = 0;
     static final int WEEK_VIEW_MODE = 1;

     private SharedPreferences mPrefs;
     private int mCurViewMode;

     protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
         super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

         SharedPreferences mPrefs = getSharedPreferences();
         mCurViewMode = mPrefs.getInt("view_mode", DAY_VIEW_MODE);
     }

     protected void onPause() {
         super.onPause();

         SharedPreferences.Editor ed = mPrefs.edit();
         ed.putInt("view_mode", mCurViewMode);
         ed.commit();
     }
 }
 

Permissions

The ability to start a particular Activity can be enforced when it is declared in its manifest's <activity> tag. By doing so, other applications will need to declare a corresponding <uses-permission> element in their own manifest to be able to start that activity.

When starting an Activity you can set Intent.FLAG_GRANT_READ_URI_PERMISSION and/or Intent.FLAG_GRANT_WRITE_URI_PERMISSION on the Intent. This will grant the Activity access to the specific URIs in the Intent. Access will remain until the Activity has finished (it will remain across the hosting process being killed and other temporary destruction). As of GINGERBREAD, if the Activity was already created and a new Intent is being delivered to onNewIntent(Intent), any newly granted URI permissions will be added to the existing ones it holds.

See the Security and Permissions document for more information on permissions and security in general.

Process Lifecycle

The Android system attempts to keep application process around for as long as possible, but eventually will need to remove old processes when memory runs low. As described in Activity Lifecycle, the decision about which process to remove is intimately tied to the state of the user's interaction with it. In general, there are four states a process can be in based on the activities running in it, listed here in order of importance. The system will kill less important processes (the last ones) before it resorts to killing more important processes (the first ones).

  1. The foreground activity (the activity at the top of the screen that the user is currently interacting with) is considered the most important. Its process will only be killed as a last resort, if it uses more memory than is available on the device. Generally at this point the device has reached a memory paging state, so this is required in order to keep the user interface responsive.

  2. A visible activity (an activity that is visible to the user but not in the foreground, such as one sitting behind a foreground dialog) is considered extremely important and will not be killed unless that is required to keep the foreground activity running.

  3. A background activity (an activity that is not visible to the user and has been paused) is no longer critical, so the system may safely kill its process to reclaim memory for other foreground or visible processes. If its process needs to be killed, when the user navigates back to the activity (making it visible on the screen again), its onCreate(Bundle) method will be called with the savedInstanceState it had previously supplied in onSaveInstanceState(Bundle) so that it can restart itself in the same state as the user last left it.

  4. An empty process is one hosting no activities or other application components (such as Service or BroadcastReceiver classes). These are killed very quickly by the system as memory becomes low. For this reason, any background operation you do outside of an activity must be executed in the context of an activity BroadcastReceiver or Service to ensure that the system knows it needs to keep your process around.

Sometimes an Activity may need to do a long-running operation that exists independently of the activity lifecycle itself. An example may be a camera application that allows you to upload a picture to a web site. The upload may take a long time, and the application should allow the user to leave the application while it is executing. To accomplish this, your Activity should start a Service in which the upload takes place. This allows the system to properly prioritize your process (considering it to be more important than other non-visible applications) for the duration of the upload, independent of whether the original activity is paused, stopped, or finished.

Summary

Constants

int DEFAULT_KEYS_DIALER

Use with setDefaultKeyMode(int) to launch the dialer during default key handling.

int DEFAULT_KEYS_DISABLE

Use with setDefaultKeyMode(int) to turn off default handling of keys.

int DEFAULT_KEYS_SEARCH_GLOBAL

Use with setDefaultKeyMode(int) to specify that unhandled keystrokes will start a global search (typically web search, but some platforms may define alternate methods for global search)

See android.app.SearchManager for more details.

int DEFAULT_KEYS_SEARCH_LOCAL

Use with setDefaultKeyMode(int) to specify that unhandled keystrokes will start an application-defined search.

int DEFAULT_KEYS_SHORTCUT

Use with setDefaultKeyMode(int) to execute a menu shortcut in default key handling.

int RESULT_CANCELED

Standard activity result: operation canceled.

int RESULT_FIRST_USER

Start of user-defined activity results.

int RESULT_OK

Standard activity result: operation succeeded.

Inherited constants

From class android.content.Context
From interface android.content.ComponentCallbacks2

Fields

protected static final int[] FOCUSED_STATE_SET

Public constructors

Activity()

Public methods

void addContentView(View view, ViewGroup.LayoutParams params)

Add an additional content view to the activity.

void closeContextMenu()

Programmatically closes the most recently opened context menu, if showing.

void closeOptionsMenu()

Progammatically closes the options menu.

PendingIntent createPendingResult(int requestCode, Intent data, int flags)

Create a new PendingIntent object which you can hand to others for them to use to send result data back to your onActivityResult(int, int, Intent) callback.

final void dismissDialog(int id)

This method was deprecated in API level 13. Use the new DialogFragment class with FragmentManager instead; this is also available on older platforms through the Android compatibility package.

final void dismissKeyboardShortcutsHelper()

Dismiss the Keyboard Shortcuts screen.

boolean dispatchGenericMotionEvent(MotionEvent ev)

Called to process generic motion events.

boolean dispatchKeyEvent(KeyEvent event)

Called to process key events.

boolean dispatchKeyShortcutEvent(KeyEvent event)

Called to process a key shortcut event.

boolean dispatchPopulateAccessibilityEvent(AccessibilityEvent event)

Called to process population of AccessibilityEvents.

boolean dispatchTouchEvent(MotionEvent ev)

Called to process touch screen events.

boolean dispatchTrackballEvent(MotionEvent ev)

Called to process trackball events.

void dump(String prefix, FileDescriptor fd, PrintWriter writer, String[] args)

Print the Activity's state into the given stream.

void enterPictureInPictureMode()

Puts the activity in picture-in-picture mode.

View findViewById(int id)

Finds a view that was identified by the id attribute from the XML that was processed in onCreate(Bundle).

void finish()

Call this when your activity is done and should be closed.

void finishActivity(int requestCode)

Force finish another activity that you had previously started with startActivityForResult(Intent, int).

void finishActivityFromChild(Activity child, int requestCode)

This is called when a child activity of this one calls its finishActivity().

void finishAffinity()

Finish this activity as well as all activities immediately below it in the current task that have the same affinity.

void finishAfterTransition()

Reverses the Activity Scene entry Transition and triggers the calling Activity to reverse its exit Transition.

void finishAndRemoveTask()

Call this when your activity is done and should be closed and the task should be completely removed as a part of finishing the root activity of the task.

void finishFromChild(Activity child)

This is called when a child activity of this one calls its finish() method.

ActionBar getActionBar()

Retrieve a reference to this activity's ActionBar.

final Application getApplication()

Return the application that owns this activity.

ComponentName getCallingActivity()

Return the name of the activity that invoked this activity.

String getCallingPackage()

Return the name of the package that invoked this activity.

int getChangingConfigurations()

If this activity is being destroyed because it can not handle a configuration parameter being changed (and thus its onConfigurationChanged(Configuration) method is not being called), then you can use this method to discover the set of changes that have occurred while in the process of being destroyed.

ComponentName getComponentName()

Returns complete component name of this activity.

Scene getContentScene()

Retrieve the Scene representing this window's current content.

TransitionManager getContentTransitionManager()

Retrieve the TransitionManager responsible for default transitions in this window.

View getCurrentFocus()

Calls getCurrentFocus() on the Window of this Activity to return the currently focused view.

FragmentManager getFragmentManager()

Return the FragmentManager for interacting with fragments associated with this activity.

Intent getIntent()

Return the intent that started this activity.

Object getLastNonConfigurationInstance()

Retrieve the non-configuration instance data that was previously returned by onRetainNonConfigurationInstance().

LayoutInflater getLayoutInflater()

Convenience for calling getLayoutInflater().

LoaderManager getLoaderManager()

Return the LoaderManager for this activity, creating it if needed.

String getLocalClassName()

Returns class name for this activity with the package prefix removed.

final MediaController getMediaController()

Gets the controller which should be receiving media key and volume events while this activity is in the foreground.

MenuInflater getMenuInflater()

Returns a MenuInflater with this context.

final Activity getParent()

Return the parent activity if this view is an embedded child.

Intent getParentActivityIntent()

Obtain an Intent that will launch an explicit target activity specified by this activity's logical parent.

SharedPreferences getPreferences(int mode)

Retrieve a SharedPreferences object for accessing preferences that are private to this activity.

Uri getReferrer()

Return information about who launched this activity.

int getRequestedOrientation()

Return the current requested orientation of the activity.

final SearchEvent getSearchEvent()

During the onSearchRequested() callbacks, this function will return the SearchEvent that triggered the callback, if it exists.

Object getSystemService(String name)

Return the handle to a system-level service by name.

int getTaskId()

Return the identifier of the task this activity is in.

final CharSequence getTitle()
final int getTitleColor()
VoiceInteractor getVoiceInteractor()

Retrieve the active VoiceInteractor that the user is going through to interact with this activity.

final int getVolumeControlStream()

Gets the suggested audio stream whose volume should be changed by the hardware volume controls.

Window getWindow()

Retrieve the current Window for the activity.

WindowManager getWindowManager()

Retrieve the window manager for showing custom windows.

boolean hasWindowFocus()

Returns true if this activity's main window currently has window focus.

void invalidateOptionsMenu()

Declare that the options menu has changed, so should be recreated.

boolean isChangingConfigurations()

Check to see whether this activity is in the process of being destroyed in order to be recreated with a new configuration.

final boolean isChild()

Is this activity embedded inside of another activity?

boolean isDestroyed()

Returns true if the final onDestroy() call has been made on the Activity, so this instance is now dead.

boolean isFinishing()

Check to see whether this activity is in the process of finishing, either because you called finish() on it or someone else has requested that it finished.

boolean isImmersive()

Bit indicating that this activity is "immersive" and should not be interrupted by notifications if possible.

boolean isInMultiWindowMode()

Returns true if the activity is currently in multi-window mode.

boolean isInPictureInPictureMode()

Returns true if the activity is currently in picture-in-picture mode.

boolean isLocalVoiceInteractionSupported()

Queries whether the currently enabled voice interaction service supports returning a voice interactor for use by the activity.

boolean isTaskRoot()

Return whether this activity is the root of a task.

boolean isVoiceInteraction()

Check whether this activity is running as part of a voice interaction with the user.

boolean isVoiceInteractionRoot()

Like isVoiceInteraction(), but only returns true if this is also the root of a voice interaction.

final Cursor managedQuery(Uri uri, String[] projection, String selection, String[] selectionArgs, String sortOrder)

This method was deprecated in API level 11. Use CursorLoader instead.

boolean moveTaskToBack(boolean nonRoot)

Move the task containing this activity to the back of the activity stack.

boolean navigateUpTo(Intent upIntent)

Navigate from this activity to the activity specified by upIntent, finishing this activity in the process.

boolean navigateUpToFromChild(Activity child, Intent upIntent)

This is called when a child activity of this one calls its navigateUpTo(Intent) method.

void onActionModeFinished(ActionMode mode)

Notifies the activity that an action mode has finished.

void onActionModeStarted(ActionMode mode)

Notifies the Activity that an action mode has been started.

void onActivityReenter(int resultCode, Intent data)

Called when an activity you launched with an activity transition exposes this Activity through a returning activity transition, giving you the resultCode and any additional data from it.

void onAttachFragment(Fragment fragment)

Called when a Fragment is being attached to this activity, immediately after the call to its Fragment.onAttach() method and before Fragment.onCreate().

void onAttachedToWindow()

Called when the main window associated with the activity has been attached to the window manager.

void onBackPressed()

Called when the activity has detected the user's press of the back key.

void onConfigurationChanged(Configuration newConfig)

Called by the system when the device configuration changes while your activity is running.

void onContentChanged()

This hook is called whenever the content view of the screen changes (due to a call to Window.setContentView or Window.addContentView).

boolean onContextItemSelected(MenuItem item)

This hook is called whenever an item in a context menu is selected.

void onContextMenuClosed(Menu menu)

This hook is called whenever the context menu is being closed (either by the user canceling the menu with the back/menu button, or when an item is selected).

void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState, PersistableBundle persistentState)

Same as onCreate(android.os.Bundle) but called for those activities created with the attribute persistableMode set to persistAcrossReboots.

void onCreateContextMenu(ContextMenu menu, View v, ContextMenu.ContextMenuInfo menuInfo)

Called when a context menu for the view is about to be shown.

CharSequence onCreateDescription()

Generate a new description for this activity.

void onCreateNavigateUpTaskStack(TaskStackBuilder builder)

Define the synthetic task stack that will be generated during Up navigation from a different task.

boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu)

Initialize the contents of the Activity's standard options menu.

boolean onCreatePanelMenu(int featureId, Menu menu)

Default implementation of onCreatePanelMenu(int, Menu) for activities.

View onCreatePanelView(int featureId)

Default implementation of onCreatePanelView(int) for activities.

boolean onCreateThumbnail(Bitmap outBitmap, Canvas canvas)

Generate a new thumbnail for this activity.

View onCreateView(View parent, String name, Context context, AttributeSet attrs)

Standard implementation of onCreateView(View, String, Context, AttributeSet) used when inflating with the LayoutInflater returned by getSystemService(Class).

View onCreateView(String name, Context context, AttributeSet attrs)

Standard implementation of onCreateView(String, Context, AttributeSet) used when inflating with the LayoutInflater returned by getSystemService(Class).

void onDetachedFromWindow()

Called when the main window associated with the activity has been detached from the window manager.

void onEnterAnimationComplete()

Activities cannot draw during the period that their windows are animating in.

boolean onGenericMotionEvent(MotionEvent event)

Called when a generic motion event was not handled by any of the views inside of the activity.

boolean onKeyDown(int keyCode, KeyEvent event)

Called when a key was pressed down and not handled by any of the views inside of the activity.

boolean onKeyLongPress(int keyCode, KeyEvent event)

Default implementation of KeyEvent.Callback.onKeyLongPress(): always returns false (doesn't handle the event).

boolean onKeyMultiple(int keyCode, int repeatCount, KeyEvent event)

Default implementation of KeyEvent.Callback.onKeyMultiple(): always returns false (doesn't handle the event).

boolean onKeyShortcut(int keyCode, KeyEvent event)

Called when a key shortcut event is not handled by any of the views in the Activity.

boolean onKeyUp(int keyCode, KeyEvent event)

Called when a key was released and not handled by any of the views inside of the activity.

void onLocalVoiceInteractionStarted()

Callback to indicate that startLocalVoiceInteraction(Bundle) has resulted in a voice interaction session being started.

void onLocalVoiceInteractionStopped()

Callback to indicate that the local voice interaction has stopped either because it was requested through a call to stopLocalVoiceInteraction() or because it was canceled by the user.

void onLowMemory()

This is called when the overall system is running low on memory, and actively running processes should trim their memory usage.

boolean onMenuItemSelected(int featureId, MenuItem item)

Default implementation of onMenuItemSelected(int, MenuItem) for activities.

boolean onMenuOpened(int featureId, Menu menu)

Called when a panel's menu is opened by the user.

void onMultiWindowModeChanged(boolean isInMultiWindowMode)

Called by the system when the activity changes from fullscreen mode to multi-window mode and visa-versa.

boolean onNavigateUp()

This method is called whenever the user chooses to navigate Up within your application's activity hierarchy from the action bar.

boolean onNavigateUpFromChild(Activity child)

This is called when a child activity of this one attempts to navigate up.

boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item)

This hook is called whenever an item in your options menu is selected.

void onOptionsMenuClosed(Menu menu)

This hook is called whenever the options menu is being closed (either by the user canceling the menu with the back/menu button, or when an item is selected).

void onPanelClosed(int featureId, Menu menu)

Default implementation of onPanelClosed(int, Menu) for activities.

void onPictureInPictureModeChanged(boolean isInPictureInPictureMode)

Called by the system when the activity changes to and from picture-in-picture mode.

void onPostCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState, PersistableBundle persistentState)

This is the same as onPostCreate(Bundle) but is called for activities created with the attribute persistableMode set to persistAcrossReboots.

void onPrepareNavigateUpTaskStack(TaskStackBuilder builder)

Prepare the synthetic task stack that will be generated during Up navigation from a different task.

boolean onPrepareOptionsMenu(Menu menu)

Prepare the Screen's standard options menu to be displayed.

boolean onPreparePanel(int featureId, View view, Menu menu)

Default implementation of onPreparePanel(int, View, Menu) for activities.

void onProvideAssistContent(AssistContent outContent)

This is called when the user is requesting an assist, to provide references to content related to the current activity.

void onProvideAssistData(Bundle data)

This is called when the user is requesting an assist, to build a full ACTION_ASSIST Intent with all of the context of the current application.

void onProvideKeyboardShortcuts(List<KeyboardShortcutGroup> data, Menu menu, int deviceId)

Called when Keyboard Shortcuts are requested for the current window.

Uri onProvideReferrer()

Override to generate the desired referrer for the content currently being shown by the app.

void onRequestPermissionsResult(int requestCode, String[] permissions, int[] grantResults)

Callback for the result from requesting permissions.

void onRestoreInstanceState(Bundle savedInstanceState, PersistableBundle persistentState)

This is the same as onRestoreInstanceState(Bundle) but is called for activities created with the attribute persistableMode set to persistAcrossReboots.

Object onRetainNonConfigurationInstance()

Called by the system, as part of destroying an activity due to a configuration change, when it is known that a new instance will immediately be created for the new configuration.

void onSaveInstanceState(Bundle outState, PersistableBundle outPersistentState)

This is the same as onSaveInstanceState(Bundle) but is called for activities created with the attribute persistableMode set to persistAcrossReboots.

boolean onSearchRequested(SearchEvent searchEvent)

This hook is called when the user signals the desire to start a search.

boolean onSearchRequested()

Called when the user signals the desire to start a search.

void onStateNotSaved()

Called when an onResume() is coming up, prior to other pre-resume callbacks such as onNewIntent(Intent) and onActivityResult(int, int, Intent).

boolean onTouchEvent(MotionEvent event)

Called when a touch screen event was not handled by any of the views under it.

boolean onTrackballEvent(MotionEvent event)

Called when the trackball was moved and not handled by any of the views inside of the activity.

void onTrimMemory(int level)

Called when the operating system has determined that it is a good time for a process to trim unneeded memory from its process.

void onUserInteraction()

Called whenever a key, touch, or trackball event is dispatched to the activity.

void onVisibleBehindCanceled()

Called when a translucent activity over this activity is becoming opaque or another activity is being launched.

void onWindowAttributesChanged(WindowManager.LayoutParams params)

This is called whenever the current window attributes change.

void onWindowFocusChanged(boolean hasFocus)

Called when the current Window of the activity gains or loses focus.

ActionMode onWindowStartingActionMode(ActionMode.Callback callback, int type)

Called when an action mode is being started for this window.

ActionMode onWindowStartingActionMode(ActionMode.Callback callback)

Give the Activity a chance to control the UI for an action mode requested by the system.

void openContextMenu(View view)

Programmatically opens the context menu for a particular view.

void openOptionsMenu()

Programmatically opens the options menu.

void overridePendingTransition(int enterAnim, int exitAnim)

Call immediately after one of the flavors of startActivity(Intent) or finish() to specify an explicit transition animation to perform next.

void postponeEnterTransition()

Postpone the entering activity transition when Activity was started with makeSceneTransitionAnimation(Activity, android.util.Pair[]).

void recreate()

Cause this Activity to be recreated with a new instance.

void registerForContextMenu(View view)

Registers a context menu to be shown for the given view (multiple views can show the context menu).

boolean releaseInstance()

Ask that the local app instance of this activity be released to free up its memory.

final void removeDialog(int id)

This method was deprecated in API level 13. Use the new DialogFragment class with FragmentManager instead; this is also available on older platforms through the Android compatibility package.

void reportFullyDrawn()

Report to the system that your app is now fully drawn, purely for diagnostic purposes (calling it does not impact the visible behavior of the activity).

DragAndDropPermissions requestDragAndDropPermissions(DragEvent event)

Create DragAndDropPermissions object bound to this activity and controlling the access permissions for content URIs associated with the DragEvent.

final void requestPermissions(String[] permissions, int requestCode)

Requests permissions to be granted to this application.

final void requestShowKeyboardShortcuts()

Request the Keyboard Shortcuts screen to show up.

boolean requestVisibleBehind(boolean visible)

Activities that want to remain visible behind a translucent activity above them must call this method anytime between the start of onResume() and the return from onPause().

final boolean requestWindowFeature(int featureId)

Enable extended window features.

final void runOnUiThread(Runnable action)

Runs the specified action on the UI thread.

void setActionBar(Toolbar toolbar)

Set a Toolbar to act as the ActionBar for this Activity window.

void setContentTransitionManager(TransitionManager tm)

Set the TransitionManager to use for default transitions in this window.

void setContentView(View view, ViewGroup.LayoutParams params)

Set the activity content to an explicit view.

void setContentView(View view)

Set the activity content to an explicit view.

void setContentView(int layoutResID)

Set the activity content from a layout resource.

final void setDefaultKeyMode(int mode)

Select the default key handling for this activity.

void setEnterSharedElementCallback(SharedElementCallback callback)

When makeSceneTransitionAnimation(Activity, android.view.View, String) was used to start an Activity, callback will be called to handle shared elements on the launched Activity.

void setExitSharedElementCallback(SharedElementCallback callback)

When makeSceneTransitionAnimation(Activity, android.view.View, String) was used to start an Activity, callback will be called to handle shared elements on the launching Activity.

final void setFeatureDrawable(int featureId, Drawable drawable)

Convenience for calling setFeatureDrawable(int, Drawable).

final void setFeatureDrawableAlpha(int featureId, int alpha)

Convenience for calling setFeatureDrawableAlpha(int, int).

final void setFeatureDrawableResource(int featureId, int resId)

Convenience for calling setFeatureDrawableResource(int, int).

final void setFeatureDrawableUri(int featureId, Uri uri)

Convenience for calling setFeatureDrawableUri(int, Uri).

void setFinishOnTouchOutside(boolean finish)

Sets whether this activity is finished when touched outside its window's bounds.

void setImmersive(boolean i)

Adjust the current immersive mode setting.

void setIntent(Intent newIntent)

Change the intent returned by getIntent().

final void setMediaController(MediaController controller)

Sets a MediaController to send media keys and volume changes to.

final void setProgress(int progress)

This method was deprecated in API level 24. No longer supported starting in API 21.

final void setProgressBarIndeterminate(boolean indeterminate)

This method was deprecated in API level 24. No longer supported starting in API 21.

final void setProgressBarIndeterminateVisibility(boolean visible)

This method was deprecated in API level 24. No longer supported starting in API 21.

final void setProgressBarVisibility(boolean visible)

This method was deprecated in API level 24. No longer supported starting in API 21.

void setRequestedOrientation(int requestedOrientation)

Change the desired orientation of this activity.

final void setResult(int resultCode, Intent data)

Call this to set the result that your activity will return to its caller.

final void setResult(int resultCode)

Call this to set the result that your activity will return to its caller.

final void setSecondaryProgress(int secondaryProgress)

This method was deprecated in API level 24. No longer supported starting in API 21.

void setTaskDescription(ActivityManager.TaskDescription taskDescription)

Sets information describing the task with this activity for presentation inside the Recents System UI.

void setTheme(int resid)

Set the base theme for this context.

void setTitle(CharSequence title)

Change the title associated with this activity.

void setTitle(int titleId)

Change the title associated with this activity.

void setTitleColor(int textColor)

This method was deprecated in API level 21. Use action bar styles instead.

void setVisible(boolean visible)

Control whether this activity's main window is visible.

final void setVolumeControlStream(int streamType)

Suggests an audio stream whose volume should be changed by the hardware volume controls.

void setVrModeEnabled(boolean enabled, ComponentName requestedComponent)

Enable or disable virtual reality (VR) mode for this Activity.

boolean shouldShowRequestPermissionRationale(String permission)

Gets whether you should show UI with rationale for requesting a permission.

boolean shouldUpRecreateTask(Intent targetIntent)

Returns true if the app should recreate the task when navigating 'up' from this activity by using targetIntent.

boolean showAssist(Bundle args)

Ask to have the current assistant shown to the user.

final boolean showDialog(int id, Bundle args)

This method was deprecated in API level 13. Use the new DialogFragment class with FragmentManager instead; this is also available on older platforms through the Android compatibility package.

final void showDialog(int id)

This method was deprecated in API level 13. Use the new DialogFragment class with FragmentManager instead; this is also available on older platforms through the Android compatibility package.

void showLockTaskEscapeMessage()

Shows the user the system defined message for telling the user how to exit lock task mode.

ActionMode startActionMode(ActionMode.Callback callback, int type)

Start an action mode of the given type.

ActionMode startActionMode(ActionMode.Callback callback)

Start an action mode of the default type TYPE_PRIMARY.

void startActivities(Intent[] intents, Bundle options)

Launch a new activity.

void startActivities(Intent[] intents)

Same as startActivities(Intent[], Bundle) with no options specified.

void startActivity(Intent intent)

Same as startActivity(Intent, Bundle) with no options specified.

void startActivity(Intent intent, Bundle options)

Launch a new activity.

void startActivityForResult(Intent intent, int requestCode)

Same as calling startActivityForResult(Intent, int, Bundle) with no options.

void startActivityForResult(Intent intent, int requestCode, Bundle options)

Launch an activity for which you would like a result when it finished.

void startActivityFromChild(Activity child, Intent intent, int requestCode)

Same as calling startActivityFromChild(Activity, Intent, int, Bundle) with no options.

void startActivityFromChild(Activity child, Intent intent, int requestCode, Bundle options)

This is called when a child activity of this one calls its startActivity(Intent) or startActivityForResult(Intent, int) method.

void startActivityFromFragment(Fragment fragment, Intent intent, int requestCode, Bundle options)

This is called when a Fragment in this activity calls its startActivity(Intent) or startActivityForResult(Intent, int) method.

void startActivityFromFragment(Fragment fragment, Intent intent, int requestCode)

Same as calling startActivityFromFragment(Fragment, Intent, int, Bundle) with no options.

boolean startActivityIfNeeded(Intent intent, int requestCode, Bundle options)

A special variation to launch an activity only if a new activity instance is needed to handle the given Intent.

boolean startActivityIfNeeded(Intent intent, int requestCode)

Same as calling startActivityIfNeeded(Intent, int, Bundle) with no options.

void startIntentSender(IntentSender intent, Intent fillInIntent, int flagsMask, int flagsValues, int extraFlags)

Same as calling startIntentSender(IntentSender, Intent, int, int, int, Bundle) with no options.

void startIntentSender(IntentSender intent, Intent fillInIntent, int flagsMask, int flagsValues, int extraFlags, Bundle options)

Like startActivity(Intent, Bundle), but taking a IntentSender to start; see startIntentSenderForResult(IntentSender, int, Intent, int, int, int, Bundle) for more information.

void startIntentSenderForResult(IntentSender intent, int requestCode, Intent fillInIntent, int flagsMask, int flagsValues, int extraFlags)

Same as calling startIntentSenderForResult(IntentSender, int, Intent, int, int, int, Bundle) with no options.

void startIntentSenderForResult(IntentSender intent, int requestCode, Intent fillInIntent, int flagsMask, int flagsValues, int extraFlags, Bundle options)

Like startActivityForResult(Intent, int), but allowing you to use a IntentSender to describe the activity to be started.

void startIntentSenderFromChild(Activity child, IntentSender intent, int requestCode, Intent fillInIntent, int flagsMask, int flagsValues, int extraFlags, Bundle options)

Like startActivityFromChild(Activity, Intent, int), but taking a IntentSender; see startIntentSenderForResult(IntentSender, int, Intent, int, int, int) for more information.

void startIntentSenderFromChild(Activity child, IntentSender intent, int requestCode, Intent fillInIntent, int flagsMask, int flagsValues, int extraFlags)

Same as calling startIntentSenderFromChild(Activity, IntentSender, int, Intent, int, int, int, Bundle) with no options.

void startLocalVoiceInteraction(Bundle privateOptions)

Starts a local voice interaction session.

void startLockTask()

Request to put this Activity in a mode where the user is locked to the current task.

void startManagingCursor(Cursor c)

This method was deprecated in API level 11. Use the new CursorLoader class with LoaderManager instead; this is also available on older platforms through the Android compatibility package.

boolean startNextMatchingActivity(Intent intent, Bundle options)

Special version of starting an activity, for use when you are replacing other activity components.

boolean startNextMatchingActivity(Intent intent)

Same as calling startNextMatchingActivity(Intent, Bundle) with no options.

void startPostponedEnterTransition()

Begin postponed transitions after postponeEnterTransition() was called.

void startSearch(String initialQuery, boolean selectInitialQuery, Bundle appSearchData, boolean globalSearch)

This hook is called to launch the search UI.

void stopLocalVoiceInteraction()

Request to terminate the current voice interaction that was previously started using startLocalVoiceInteraction(Bundle).

void stopLockTask()

Allow the user to switch away from the current task.

void stopManagingCursor(Cursor c)

This method was deprecated in API level 11. Use the new CursorLoader class with LoaderManager instead; this is also available on older platforms through the Android compatibility package.

void takeKeyEvents(boolean get)

Request that key events come to this activity.

void triggerSearch(String query, Bundle appSearchData)

Similar to startSearch(String, boolean, Bundle, boolean), but actually fires off the search query after invoking the search dialog.

void unregisterForContextMenu(View view)

Prevents a context menu to be shown for the given view.

Protected methods

void onActivityResult(int requestCode, int resultCode, Intent data)

Called when an activity you launched exits, giving you the requestCode you started it with, the resultCode it returned, and any additional data from it.

void onApplyThemeResource(Resources.Theme theme, int resid, boolean first)

Called by setTheme(int) and getTheme() to apply a theme resource to the current Theme object.

void onChildTitleChanged(Activity childActivity, CharSequence title)
void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState)

Called when the activity is starting.

Dialog onCreateDialog(int id)

This method was deprecated in API level 8. Old no-arguments version of onCreateDialog(int, Bundle).

Dialog onCreateDialog(int id, Bundle args)

This method was deprecated in API level 13. Use the new DialogFragment class with FragmentManager instead; this is also available on older platforms through the Android compatibility package.

void onDestroy()

Perform any final cleanup before an activity is destroyed.

void onNewIntent(Intent intent)

This is called for activities that set launchMode to "singleTop" in their package, or if a client used the FLAG_ACTIVITY_SINGLE_TOP flag when calling startActivity(Intent).

void onPause()

Called as part of the activity lifecycle when an activity is going into the background, but has not (yet) been killed.

void onPostCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState)

Called when activity start-up is complete (after onStart() and onRestoreInstanceState(Bundle) have been called).

void onPostResume()

Called when activity resume is complete (after onResume() has been called).

void onPrepareDialog(int id, Dialog dialog, Bundle args)

This method was deprecated in API level 13. Use the new DialogFragment class with FragmentManager instead; this is also available on older platforms through the Android compatibility package.

void onPrepareDialog(int id, Dialog dialog)

This method was deprecated in API level 8. Old no-arguments version of onPrepareDialog(int, Dialog, Bundle).

void onRestart()

Called after onStop() when the current activity is being re-displayed to the user (the user has navigated back to it).

void onRestoreInstanceState(Bundle savedInstanceState)

This method is called after onStart() when the activity is being re-initialized from a previously saved state, given here in savedInstanceState.

void onResume()

Called after onRestoreInstanceState(Bundle), onRestart(), or onPause(), for your activity to start interacting with the user.

void onSaveInstanceState(Bundle outState)

Called to retrieve per-instance state from an activity before being killed so that the state can be restored in onCreate(Bundle) or onRestoreInstanceState(Bundle) (the Bundle populated by this method will be passed to both).

void onStart()

Called after onCreate(Bundle) — or after onRestart() when the activity had been stopped, but is now again being displayed to the user.

void onStop()

Called when you are no longer visible to the user.

void onTitleChanged(CharSequence title, int color)
void onUserLeaveHint()

Called as part of the activity lifecycle when an activity is about to go into the background as the result of user choice.

Inherited methods

From class android.view.ContextThemeWrapper
From class android.content.ContextWrapper
From class android.content.Context
From class java.lang.Object
From interface android.view.LayoutInflater.Factory2
From interface android.view.Window.Callback
From interface android.view.KeyEvent.Callback
From interface android.view.View.OnCreateContextMenuListener
From interface android.content.ComponentCallbacks2
From interface android.view.LayoutInflater.Factory
From interface android.content.ComponentCallbacks

Constants

DEFAULT_KEYS_DIALER

Added in API level 1
int DEFAULT_KEYS_DIALER

Use with setDefaultKeyMode(int) to launch the dialer during default key handling.

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Constant Value: 1 (0x00000001)

DEFAULT_KEYS_DISABLE

Added in API level 1
int DEFAULT_KEYS_DISABLE

Use with setDefaultKeyMode(int) to turn off default handling of keys.

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Constant Value: 0 (0x00000000)

DEFAULT_KEYS_SEARCH_GLOBAL

Added in API level 1
int DEFAULT_KEYS_SEARCH_GLOBAL

Use with setDefaultKeyMode(int) to specify that unhandled keystrokes will start a global search (typically web search, but some platforms may define alternate methods for global search)

See android.app.SearchManager for more details.

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Constant Value: 4 (0x00000004)

DEFAULT_KEYS_SEARCH_LOCAL

Added in API level 1
int DEFAULT_KEYS_SEARCH_LOCAL

Use with setDefaultKeyMode(int) to specify that unhandled keystrokes will start an application-defined search. (If the application or activity does not actually define a search, the the keys will be ignored.)

See android.app.SearchManager for more details.

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Constant Value: 3 (0x00000003)

DEFAULT_KEYS_SHORTCUT

Added in API level 1
int DEFAULT_KEYS_SHORTCUT

Use with setDefaultKeyMode(int) to execute a menu shortcut in default key handling.

That is, the user does not need to hold down the menu key to execute menu shortcuts.

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Constant Value: 2 (0x00000002)

RESULT_CANCELED

Added in API level 1
int RESULT_CANCELED

Standard activity result: operation canceled.

Constant Value: 0 (0x00000000)

RESULT_FIRST_USER

Added in API level 1
int RESULT_FIRST_USER

Start of user-defined activity results.

Constant Value: 1 (0x00000001)

RESULT_OK

Added in API level 1
int RESULT_OK

Standard activity result: operation succeeded.

Constant Value: -1 (0xffffffff)

Fields

FOCUSED_STATE_SET

Added in API level 1
int[] FOCUSED_STATE_SET

Public constructors

Activity

Added in API level 1
Activity ()

Public methods

addContentView

Added in API level 1
void addContentView (View view, 
                ViewGroup.LayoutParams params)

Add an additional content view to the activity. Added after any existing ones in the activity -- existing views are NOT removed.

Parameters
view View: The desired content to display.
params ViewGroup.LayoutParams: Layout parameters for the view.

closeContextMenu

Added in API level 3
void closeContextMenu ()

Programmatically closes the most recently opened context menu, if showing.

closeOptionsMenu

Added in API level 1
void closeOptionsMenu ()

Progammatically closes the options menu. If the options menu is already closed, this method does nothing.

createPendingResult

Added in API level 1
PendingIntent createPendingResult (int requestCode, 
                Intent data, 
                int flags)

Create a new PendingIntent object which you can hand to others for them to use to send result data back to your onActivityResult(int, int, Intent) callback. The created object will be either one-shot (becoming invalid after a result is sent back) or multiple (allowing any number of results to be sent through it).

Parameters
requestCode int: Private request code for the sender that will be associated with the result data when it is returned. The sender can not modify this value, allowing you to identify incoming results.
data Intent: Default data to supply in the result, which may be modified by the sender.
flags int: May be PendingIntent.FLAG_ONE_SHOT, PendingIntent.FLAG_NO_CREATE, PendingIntent.FLAG_CANCEL_CURRENT, PendingIntent.FLAG_UPDATE_CURRENT, or any of the flags as supported by Intent.fillIn() to control which unspecified parts of the intent that can be supplied when the actual send happens.
Returns
PendingIntent Returns an existing or new PendingIntent matching the given parameters. May return null only if PendingIntent.FLAG_NO_CREATE has been supplied.

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dismissDialog

Added in API level 1
void dismissDialog (int id)

This method was deprecated in API level 13.
Use the new DialogFragment class with FragmentManager instead; this is also available on older platforms through the Android compatibility package.

Dismiss a dialog that was previously shown via showDialog(int).

Parameters
id int: The id of the managed dialog.
Throws
IllegalArgumentException if the id was not previously shown via showDialog(int).

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dismissKeyboardShortcutsHelper

Added in API level 24
void dismissKeyboardShortcutsHelper ()

Dismiss the Keyboard Shortcuts screen.

dispatchGenericMotionEvent

Added in API level 12
boolean dispatchGenericMotionEvent (MotionEvent ev)

Called to process generic motion events. You can override this to intercept all generic motion events before they are dispatched to the window. Be sure to call this implementation for generic motion events that should be handled normally.

Parameters
ev MotionEvent: The generic motion event.
Returns
boolean boolean Return true if this event was consumed.

dispatchKeyEvent

Added in API level 1
boolean dispatchKeyEvent (KeyEvent event)

Called to process key events. You can override this to intercept all key events before they are dispatched to the window. Be sure to call this implementation for key events that should be handled normally.

Parameters
event KeyEvent: The key event.
Returns
boolean boolean Return true if this event was consumed.

dispatchKeyShortcutEvent

Added in API level 11
boolean dispatchKeyShortcutEvent (KeyEvent event)

Called to process a key shortcut event. You can override this to intercept all key shortcut events before they are dispatched to the window. Be sure to call this implementation for key shortcut events that should be handled normally.

Parameters
event KeyEvent: The key shortcut event.
Returns
boolean True if this event was consumed.

dispatchPopulateAccessibilityEvent

Added in API level 4
boolean dispatchPopulateAccessibilityEvent (AccessibilityEvent event)

Called to process population of AccessibilityEvents.

Parameters
event AccessibilityEvent: The event.
Returns
boolean boolean Return true if event population was completed.

dispatchTouchEvent

Added in API level 1
boolean dispatchTouchEvent (MotionEvent ev)

Called to process touch screen events. You can override this to intercept all touch screen events before they are dispatched to the window. Be sure to call this implementation for touch screen events that should be handled normally.

Parameters
ev MotionEvent: The touch screen event.
Returns
boolean boolean Return true if this event was consumed.

dispatchTrackballEvent

Added in API level 1
boolean dispatchTrackballEvent (MotionEvent ev)

Called to process trackball events. You can override this to intercept all trackball events before they are dispatched to the window. Be sure to call this implementation for trackball events that should be handled normally.

Parameters
ev MotionEvent: The trackball event.
Returns
boolean boolean Return true if this event was consumed.

dump

Added in API level 11
void dump (String prefix, 
                FileDescriptor fd, 
                PrintWriter writer, 
                String[] args)

Print the Activity's state into the given stream. This gets invoked if you run "adb shell dumpsys activity <activity_component_name>".

Parameters
prefix String: Desired prefix to prepend at each line of output.
fd FileDescriptor: The raw file descriptor that the dump is being sent to.
writer PrintWriter: The PrintWriter to which you should dump your state. This will be closed for you after you return.
args String: additional arguments to the dump request.

enterPictureInPictureMode

Added in API level 24
void enterPictureInPictureMode ()

Puts the activity in picture-in-picture mode.

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findViewById

Added in API level 1
View findViewById (int id)

Finds a view that was identified by the id attribute from the XML that was processed in onCreate(Bundle).

Parameters
id int
Returns
View The view if found or null otherwise.

finish

Added in API level 1
void finish ()

Call this when your activity is done and should be closed. The ActivityResult is propagated back to whoever launched you via onActivityResult().

finishActivity

Added in API level 1
void finishActivity (int requestCode)

Force finish another activity that you had previously started with startActivityForResult(Intent, int).

Parameters
requestCode int: The request code of the activity that you had given to startActivityForResult(). If there are multiple activities started with this request code, they will all be finished.

finishActivityFromChild

Added in API level 1
void finishActivityFromChild (Activity child, 
                int requestCode)

This is called when a child activity of this one calls its finishActivity().

Parameters
child Activity: The activity making the call.
requestCode int: Request code that had been used to start the activity.

finishAffinity

Added in API level 16
void finishAffinity ()

Finish this activity as well as all activities immediately below it in the current task that have the same affinity. This is typically used when an application can be launched on to another task (such as from an ACTION_VIEW of a content type it understands) and the user has used the up navigation to switch out of the current task and in to its own task. In this case, if the user has navigated down into any other activities of the second application, all of those should be removed from the original task as part of the task switch.

Note that this finish does not allow you to deliver results to the previous activity, and an exception will be thrown if you are trying to do so.

finishAfterTransition

Added in API level 21
void finishAfterTransition ()

Reverses the Activity Scene entry Transition and triggers the calling Activity to reverse its exit Transition. When the exit Transition completes, finish() is called. If no entry Transition was used, finish() is called immediately and the Activity exit Transition is run.

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finishAndRemoveTask

Added in API level 21
void finishAndRemoveTask ()

Call this when your activity is done and should be closed and the task should be completely removed as a part of finishing the root activity of the task.

finishFromChild

Added in API level 1
void finishFromChild (Activity child)

This is called when a child activity of this one calls its finish() method. The default implementation simply calls finish() on this activity (the parent), finishing the entire group.

Parameters
child Activity: The activity making the call.

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getActionBar

Added in API level 11
ActionBar getActionBar ()

Retrieve a reference to this activity's ActionBar.

Returns
ActionBar The Activity's ActionBar, or null if it does not have one.

getApplication

Added in API level 1
Application getApplication ()

Return the application that owns this activity.

Returns
Application

getCallingActivity

Added in API level 1
ComponentName getCallingActivity ()

Return the name of the activity that invoked this activity. This is who the data in setResult() will be sent to. You can use this information to validate that the recipient is allowed to receive the data.

Note: if the calling activity is not expecting a result (that is it did not use the startActivityForResult(Intent, int) form that includes a request code), then the calling package will be null.

Returns
ComponentName The ComponentName of the activity that will receive your reply, or null if none.

getCallingPackage

Added in API level 1
String getCallingPackage ()

Return the name of the package that invoked this activity. This is who the data in setResult() will be sent to. You can use this information to validate that the recipient is allowed to receive the data.

Note: if the calling activity is not expecting a result (that is it did not use the startActivityForResult(Intent, int) form that includes a request code), then the calling package will be null.

Note: prior to JELLY_BEAN_MR2, the result from this method was unstable. If the process hosting the calling package was no longer running, it would return null instead of the proper package name. You can use getCallingActivity() and retrieve the package name from that instead.

Returns
String The package of the activity that will receive your reply, or null if none.

getChangingConfigurations

Added in API level 1
int getChangingConfigurations ()

If this activity is being destroyed because it can not handle a configuration parameter being changed (and thus its onConfigurationChanged(Configuration) method is not being called), then you can use this method to discover the set of changes that have occurred while in the process of being destroyed. Note that there is no guarantee that these will be accurate (other changes could have happened at any time), so you should only use this as an optimization hint.

Returns
int Returns a bit field of the configuration parameters that are changing, as defined by the Configuration class.

getComponentName

Added in API level 1
ComponentName getComponentName ()

Returns complete component name of this activity.

Returns
ComponentName Returns the complete component name for this activity

getContentScene

Added in API level 21
Scene getContentScene ()

Retrieve the Scene representing this window's current content. Requires FEATURE_CONTENT_TRANSITIONS.

This method will return null if the current content is not represented by a Scene.

Returns
Scene Current Scene being shown or null

getContentTransitionManager

Added in API level 21
TransitionManager getContentTransitionManager ()

Retrieve the TransitionManager responsible for default transitions in this window. Requires FEATURE_CONTENT_TRANSITIONS.

This method will return non-null after content has been initialized (e.g. by using setContentView(View)) if FEATURE_CONTENT_TRANSITIONS has been granted.

Returns
TransitionManager This window's content TransitionManager or null if none is set.

getCurrentFocus

Added in API level 1
View getCurrentFocus ()

Calls getCurrentFocus() on the Window of this Activity to return the currently focused view.

Returns
View View The current View with focus or null.

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getFragmentManager

Added in API level 11
FragmentManager getFragmentManager ()

Return the FragmentManager for interacting with fragments associated with this activity.

Returns
FragmentManager

getIntent

Added in API level 1
Intent getIntent ()

Return the intent that started this activity.

Returns
Intent

getLastNonConfigurationInstance

Added in API level 1
Object getLastNonConfigurationInstance ()

Retrieve the non-configuration instance data that was previously returned by onRetainNonConfigurationInstance(). This will be available from the initial onCreate(Bundle) and onStart() calls to the new instance, allowing you to extract any useful dynamic state from the previous instance.

Note that the data you retrieve here should only be used as an optimization for handling configuration changes. You should always be able to handle getting a null pointer back, and an activity must still be able to restore itself to its previous state (through the normal onSaveInstanceState(Bundle) mechanism) even if this function returns null.

Note: For most cases you should use the Fragment API setRetainInstance(boolean) instead; this is also available on older platforms through the Android support libraries.

Returns
Object the object previously returned by onRetainNonConfigurationInstance()

getLayoutInflater

Added in API level 1
LayoutInflater getLayoutInflater ()

Convenience for calling getLayoutInflater().

Returns
LayoutInflater

getLoaderManager

Added in API level 11
LoaderManager getLoaderManager ()

Return the LoaderManager for this activity, creating it if needed.

Returns
LoaderManager

getLocalClassName

Added in API level 1
String getLocalClassName ()

Returns class name for this activity with the package prefix removed. This is the default name used to read and write settings.

Returns
String The local class name.

getMediaController

Added in API level 21
MediaController getMediaController ()

Gets the controller which should be receiving media key and volume events while this activity is in the foreground.

Returns
MediaController The controller which should receive events.

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getMenuInflater

Added in API level 1
MenuInflater getMenuInflater ()

Returns a MenuInflater with this context.

Returns
MenuInflater

getParent

Added in API level 1
Activity getParent ()

Return the parent activity if this view is an embedded child.

Returns
Activity

getParentActivityIntent

Added in API level 16
Intent getParentActivityIntent ()

Obtain an Intent that will launch an explicit target activity specified by this activity's logical parent. The logical parent is named in the application's manifest by the parentActivityName attribute. Activity subclasses may override this method to modify the Intent returned by super.getParentActivityIntent() or to implement a different mechanism of retrieving the parent intent entirely.

Returns
Intent a new Intent targeting the defined parent of this activity or null if there is no valid parent.

getPreferences

Added in API level 1
SharedPreferences getPreferences (int mode)

Retrieve a SharedPreferences object for accessing preferences that are private to this activity. This simply calls the underlying getSharedPreferences(String, int) method by passing in this activity's class name as the preferences name.

Parameters
mode int: Operating mode. Use MODE_PRIVATE for the default operation.
Returns
SharedPreferences Returns the single SharedPreferences instance that can be used to retrieve and modify the preference values.

getReferrer

Added in API level 22
Uri getReferrer ()

Return information about who launched this activity. If the launching Intent contains an Intent.EXTRA_REFERRER, that will be returned as-is; otherwise, if known, an android-app: referrer URI containing the package name that started the Intent will be returned. This may return null if no referrer can be identified -- it is neither explicitly specified, nor is it known which application package was involved.

If called while inside the handling of onNewIntent(Intent), this function will return the referrer that submitted that new intent to the activity. Otherwise, it always returns the referrer of the original Intent.

Note that this is not a security feature -- you can not trust the referrer information, applications can spoof it.

Returns
Uri

getRequestedOrientation

Added in API level 1
int getRequestedOrientation ()

Return the current requested orientation of the activity. This will either be the orientation requested in its component's manifest, or the last requested orientation given to setRequestedOrientation(int).

Returns
int Returns an orientation constant as used in ActivityInfo.screenOrientation.

getSearchEvent

Added in API level 23
SearchEvent getSearchEvent ()

During the onSearchRequested() callbacks, this function will return the SearchEvent that triggered the callback, if it exists.

Returns
SearchEvent SearchEvent The SearchEvent that triggered the onSearchRequested() callback.

getSystemService

Added in API level 1
Object getSystemService (String name)

Return the handle to a system-level service by name. The class of the returned object varies by the requested name. Currently available names are:

WINDOW_SERVICE ("window")
The top-level window manager in which you can place custom windows. The returned object is a WindowManager.
LAYOUT_INFLATER_SERVICE ("layout_inflater")
A LayoutInflater for inflating layout resources in this context.
ACTIVITY_SERVICE ("activity")
A ActivityManager for interacting with the global activity state of the system.
POWER_SERVICE ("power")
A PowerManager for controlling power management.
ALARM_SERVICE ("alarm")
A AlarmManager for receiving intents at the time of your choosing.
NOTIFICATION_SERVICE ("notification")
A NotificationManager for informing the user of background events.
KEYGUARD_SERVICE ("keyguard")
A KeyguardManager for controlling keyguard.
LOCATION_SERVICE ("location")
A LocationManager for controlling location (e.g., GPS) updates.
SEARCH_SERVICE ("search")
A SearchManager for handling search.
VIBRATOR_SERVICE ("vibrator")
A Vibrator for interacting with the vibrator hardware.
CONNECTIVITY_SERVICE ("connection")
A ConnectivityManager for handling management of network connections.
WIFI_SERVICE ("wifi")
A WifiManager for management of Wi-Fi connectivity.
WIFI_P2P_SERVICE ("wifip2p")
A WifiP2pManager for management of Wi-Fi Direct connectivity.
INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE ("input_method")
An InputMethodManager for management of input methods.
UI_MODE_SERVICE ("uimode")
An UiModeManager for controlling UI modes.
DOWNLOAD_SERVICE ("download")
A DownloadManager for requesting HTTP downloads
BATTERY_SERVICE ("batterymanager")
A BatteryManager for managing battery state
JOB_SCHEDULER_SERVICE ("taskmanager")
A JobScheduler for managing scheduled tasks
NETWORK_STATS_SERVICE ("netstats")
A NetworkStatsManager for querying network usage statistics.
HARDWARE_PROPERTIES_SERVICE ("hardware_properties")
A HardwarePropertiesManager for accessing hardware properties.

Note: System services obtained via this API may be closely associated with the Context in which they are obtained from. In general, do not share the service objects between various different contexts (Activities, Applications, Services, Providers, etc.)

Parameters
name String: The name of the desired service.
Returns
Object The service or null if the name does not exist.

getTaskId

Added in API level 1
int getTaskId ()

Return the identifier of the task this activity is in. This identifier will remain the same for the lifetime of the activity.

Returns
int Task identifier, an opaque integer.

getTitle

Added in API level 1
CharSequence getTitle ()

Returns
CharSequence

getTitleColor

Added in API level 1
int getTitleColor ()

Returns
int

getVoiceInteractor

Added in API level 23
VoiceInteractor getVoiceInteractor ()

Retrieve the active VoiceInteractor that the user is going through to interact with this activity.

Returns
VoiceInteractor

getVolumeControlStream

Added in API level 1
int getVolumeControlStream ()

Gets the suggested audio stream whose volume should be changed by the hardware volume controls.

Returns
int The suggested audio stream type whose volume should be changed by the hardware volume controls.

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getWindow

Added in API level 1
Window getWindow ()

Retrieve the current Window for the activity. This can be used to directly access parts of the Window API that are not available through Activity/Screen.

Returns
Window Window The current window, or null if the activity is not visual.

getWindowManager

Added in API level 1
WindowManager getWindowManager ()

Retrieve the window manager for showing custom windows.

Returns
WindowManager

hasWindowFocus

Added in API level 3
boolean hasWindowFocus ()

Returns true if this activity's main window currently has window focus. Note that this is not the same as the view itself having focus.

Returns
boolean True if this activity's main window currently has window focus.

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invalidateOptionsMenu

Added in API level 11
void invalidateOptionsMenu ()

Declare that the options menu has changed, so should be recreated. The onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu) method will be called the next time it needs to be displayed.

isChangingConfigurations

Added in API level 11
boolean isChangingConfigurations ()

Check to see whether this activity is in the process of being destroyed in order to be recreated with a new configuration. This is often used in onStop() to determine whether the state needs to be cleaned up or will be passed on to the next instance of the activity via onRetainNonConfigurationInstance().

Returns
boolean If the activity is being torn down in order to be recreated with a new configuration, returns true; else returns false.

isChild

Added in API level 1
boolean isChild ()

Is this activity embedded inside of another activity?

Returns
boolean

isDestroyed

Added in API level 17
boolean isDestroyed ()

Returns true if the final onDestroy() call has been made on the Activity, so this instance is now dead.

Returns
boolean

isFinishing

Added in API level 1
boolean isFinishing ()

Check to see whether this activity is in the process of finishing, either because you called finish() on it or someone else has requested that it finished. This is often used in onPause() to determine whether the activity is simply pausing or completely finishing.

Returns
boolean If the activity is finishing, returns true; else returns false.

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isImmersive

Added in API level 18
boolean isImmersive ()

Bit indicating that this activity is "immersive" and should not be interrupted by notifications if possible. This value is initially set by the manifest property android:immersive but may be changed at runtime by setImmersive(boolean).

Returns
boolean

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isInMultiWindowMode

Added in API level 24
boolean isInMultiWindowMode ()

Returns true if the activity is currently in multi-window mode.

Returns
boolean True if the activity is in multi-window mode.

See also:

isInPictureInPictureMode

Added in API level 24
boolean isInPictureInPictureMode ()

Returns true if the activity is currently in picture-in-picture mode.

Returns
boolean True if the activity is in picture-in-picture mode.

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isLocalVoiceInteractionSupported

Added in API level 24
boolean isLocalVoiceInteractionSupported ()

Queries whether the currently enabled voice interaction service supports returning a voice interactor for use by the activity. This is valid only for the duration of the activity.

Returns
boolean whether the current voice interaction service supports local voice interaction

isTaskRoot

Added in API level 1
boolean isTaskRoot ()

Return whether this activity is the root of a task. The root is the first activity in a task.

Returns
boolean True if this is the root activity, else false.

isVoiceInteraction

Added in API level 23
boolean isVoiceInteraction ()

Check whether this activity is running as part of a voice interaction with the user. If true, it should perform its interaction with the user through the VoiceInteractor returned by getVoiceInteractor().

Returns
boolean

isVoiceInteractionRoot

Added in API level 23
boolean isVoiceInteractionRoot ()

Like isVoiceInteraction(), but only returns true if this is also the root of a voice interaction. That is, returns true if this activity was directly started by the voice interaction service as the initiation of a voice interaction. Otherwise, for example if it was started by another activity while under voice interaction, returns false.

Returns
boolean

managedQuery

Added in API level 1
Cursor managedQuery (Uri uri, 
                String[] projection, 
                String selection, 
                String[] selectionArgs, 
                String sortOrder)

This method was deprecated in API level 11.
Use CursorLoader instead.

Wrapper around query(android.net.Uri, String[], String, String[], String) that gives the resulting Cursor to call startManagingCursor(Cursor) so that the activity will manage its lifecycle for you. If you are targeting HONEYCOMB or later, consider instead using LoaderManager instead, available via getLoaderManager().

Warning: Do not call close() on a cursor obtained using this method, because the activity will do that for you at the appropriate time. However, if you call stopManagingCursor(Cursor) on a cursor from a managed query, the system will not automatically close the cursor and, in that case, you must call close().

Parameters
uri Uri: The URI of the content provider to query.
projection String: List of columns to return.
selection String: SQL WHERE clause.
selectionArgs String: The arguments to selection, if any ?s are pesent
sortOrder String: SQL ORDER BY clause.
Returns
Cursor The Cursor that was returned by query().

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moveTaskToBack

Added in API level 1
boolean moveTaskToBack (boolean nonRoot)

Move the task containing this activity to the back of the activity stack. The activity's order within the task is unchanged.

Parameters
nonRoot boolean: If false then this only works if the activity is the root of a task; if true it will work for any activity in a task.
Returns
boolean If the task was moved (or it was already at the back) true is returned, else false.

navigateUpTo

Added in API level 16
boolean navigateUpTo (Intent upIntent)

Navigate from this activity to the activity specified by upIntent, finishing this activity in the process. If the activity indicated by upIntent already exists in the task's history, this activity and all others before the indicated activity in the history stack will be finished.

If the indicated activity does not appear in the history stack, this will finish each activity in this task until the root activity of the task is reached, resulting in an "in-app home" behavior. This can be useful in apps with a complex navigation hierarchy when an activity may be reached by a path not passing through a canonical parent activity.

This method should be used when performing up navigation from within the same task as the destination. If up navigation should cross tasks in some cases, see shouldUpRecreateTask(Intent).

Parameters
upIntent Intent: An intent representing the target destination for up navigation
Returns
boolean true if up navigation successfully reached the activity indicated by upIntent and upIntent was delivered to it. false if an instance of the indicated activity could not be found and this activity was simply finished normally.

navigateUpToFromChild

Added in API level 16
boolean navigateUpToFromChild (Activity child, 
                Intent upIntent)

This is called when a child activity of this one calls its navigateUpTo(Intent) method. The default implementation simply calls navigateUpTo(upIntent) on this activity (the parent).

Parameters
child Activity: The activity making the call.
upIntent Intent: An intent representing the target destination for up navigation
Returns
boolean true if up navigation successfully reached the activity indicated by upIntent and upIntent was delivered to it. false if an instance of the indicated activity could not be found and this activity was simply finished normally.

onActionModeFinished

Added in API level 11
void onActionModeFinished (ActionMode mode)

Notifies the activity that an action mode has finished. Activity subclasses overriding this method should call the superclass implementation.

Parameters
mode ActionMode: The action mode that just finished.

onActionModeStarted

Added in API level 11
void onActionModeStarted (ActionMode mode)

Notifies the Activity that an action mode has been started. Activity subclasses overriding this method should call the superclass implementation.

Parameters
mode ActionMode: The new action mode.

onActivityReenter

Added in API level 21
void onActivityReenter (int resultCode, 
                Intent data)

Called when an activity you launched with an activity transition exposes this Activity through a returning activity transition, giving you the resultCode and any additional data from it. This method will only be called if the activity set a result code other than RESULT_CANCELED and it supports activity transitions with FEATURE_ACTIVITY_TRANSITIONS.

The purpose of this function is to let the called Activity send a hint about its state so that this underlying Activity can prepare to be exposed. A call to this method does not guarantee that the called Activity has or will be exiting soon. It only indicates that it will expose this Activity's Window and it has some data to pass to prepare it.

Parameters
resultCode int: The integer result code returned by the child activity through its setResult().
data Intent: An Intent, which can return result data to the caller (various data can be attached to Intent "extras").

onAttachFragment

Added in API level 11
void onAttachFragment (Fragment fragment)

Called when a Fragment is being attached to this activity, immediately after the call to its Fragment.onAttach() method and before Fragment.onCreate().

Parameters
fragment Fragment

onAttachedToWindow

Added in API level 5
void onAttachedToWindow ()

Called when the main window associated with the activity has been attached to the window manager. See View.onAttachedToWindow() for more information.

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onBackPressed

Added in API level 5
void onBackPressed ()

Called when the activity has detected the user's press of the back key. The default implementation simply finishes the current activity, but you can override this to do whatever you want.

onConfigurationChanged

Added in API level 1
void onConfigurationChanged (Configuration newConfig)

Called by the system when the device configuration changes while your activity is running. Note that this will only be called if you have selected configurations you would like to handle with the configChanges attribute in your manifest. If any configuration change occurs that is not selected to be reported by that attribute, then instead of reporting it the system will stop and restart the activity (to have it launched with the new configuration).

At the time that this function has been called, your Resources object will have been updated to return resource values matching the new configuration.

Parameters
newConfig Configuration: The new device configuration.

onContentChanged

Added in API level 1
void onContentChanged ()

This hook is called whenever the content view of the screen changes (due to a call to Window.setContentView or Window.addContentView).

onContextItemSelected

Added in API level 1
boolean onContextItemSelected (MenuItem item)

This hook is called whenever an item in a context menu is selected. The default implementation simply returns false to have the normal processing happen (calling the item's Runnable or sending a message to its Handler as appropriate). You can use this method for any items for which you would like to do processing without those other facilities.

Use getMenuInfo() to get extra information set by the View that added this menu item.

Derived classes should call through to the base class for it to perform the default menu handling.

Parameters
item MenuItem: The context menu item that was selected.
Returns
boolean boolean Return false to allow normal context menu processing to proceed, true to consume it here.

onContextMenuClosed

Added in API level 1
void onContextMenuClosed (Menu menu)

This hook is called whenever the context menu is being closed (either by the user canceling the menu with the back/menu button, or when an item is selected).

Parameters
menu Menu: The context menu that is being closed.

onCreate

Added in API level 21
void onCreate (Bundle savedInstanceState, 
                PersistableBundle persistentState)

Same as onCreate(android.os.Bundle) but called for those activities created with the attribute persistableMode set to persistAcrossReboots.

Parameters
savedInstanceState Bundle: if the activity is being re-initialized after previously being shut down then this Bundle contains the data it most recently supplied in onSaveInstanceState(Bundle). Note: Otherwise it is null.
persistentState PersistableBundle: if the activity is being re-initialized after previously being shut down or powered off then this Bundle contains the data it most recently supplied to outPersistentState in onSaveInstanceState(Bundle). Note: Otherwise it is null.

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onCreateContextMenu

Added in API level 1
void onCreateContextMenu (ContextMenu menu, 
                View v, 
                ContextMenu.ContextMenuInfo menuInfo)

Called when a context menu for the view is about to be shown. Unlike onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu), this will be called every time the context menu is about to be shown and should be populated for the view (or item inside the view for AdapterView subclasses, this can be found in the menuInfo)).

Use onContextItemSelected(android.view.MenuItem) to know when an item has been selected.

It is not safe to hold onto the context menu after this method returns.

Parameters
menu ContextMenu: The context menu that is being built
v View: The view for which the context menu is being built
menuInfo ContextMenu.ContextMenuInfo: Extra information about the item for which the context menu should be shown. This information will vary depending on the class of v.

onCreateDescription

Added in API level 1
CharSequence onCreateDescription ()

Generate a new description for this activity. This method is called before pausing the activity and can, if desired, return some textual description of its current state to be displayed to the user.

The default implementation returns null, which will cause you to inherit the description from the previous activity. If all activities return null, generally the label of the top activity will be used as the description.

Returns
CharSequence A description of what the user is doing. It should be short and sweet (only a few words).

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onCreateNavigateUpTaskStack

Added in API level 16
void onCreateNavigateUpTaskStack (TaskStackBuilder builder)

Define the synthetic task stack that will be generated during Up navigation from a different task.

The default implementation of this method adds the parent chain of this activity as specified in the manifest to the supplied TaskStackBuilder. Applications may choose to override this method to construct the desired task stack in a different way.

This method will be invoked by the default implementation of onNavigateUp() if shouldUpRecreateTask(Intent) returns true when supplied with the intent returned by getParentActivityIntent().

Applications that wish to supply extra Intent parameters to the parent stack defined by the manifest should override onPrepareNavigateUpTaskStack(TaskStackBuilder).

Parameters
builder TaskStackBuilder: An empty TaskStackBuilder - the application should add intents representing the desired task stack

onCreateOptionsMenu

Added in API level 1
boolean onCreateOptionsMenu (Menu menu)

Initialize the contents of the Activity's standard options menu. You should place your menu items in to menu.

This is only called once, the first time the options menu is displayed. To update the menu every time it is displayed, see onPrepareOptionsMenu(Menu).

The default implementation populates the menu with standard system menu items. These are placed in the CATEGORY_SYSTEM group so that they will be correctly ordered with application-defined menu items. Deriving classes should always call through to the base implementation.

You can safely hold on to menu (and any items created from it), making modifications to it as desired, until the next time onCreateOptionsMenu() is called.

When you add items to the menu, you can implement the Activity's onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem) method to handle them there.

Parameters
menu Menu: The options menu in which you place your items.
Returns
boolean You must return true for the menu to be displayed; if you return false it will not be shown.

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onCreatePanelMenu

Added in API level 1
boolean onCreatePanelMenu (int featureId, 
                Menu menu)

Default implementation of onCreatePanelMenu(int, Menu) for activities. This calls through to the new onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu) method for the FEATURE_OPTIONS_PANEL panel, so that subclasses of Activity don't need to deal with feature codes.

Parameters
featureId int: The panel being created.
menu Menu: The menu inside the panel.
Returns
boolean boolean You must return true for the panel to be displayed; if you return false it will not be shown.

onCreatePanelView

Added in API level 1
View onCreatePanelView (int featureId)

Default implementation of onCreatePanelView(int) for activities. This simply returns null so that all panel sub-windows will have the default menu behavior.

Parameters
featureId int: Which panel is being created.
Returns
View view The top-level view to place in the panel.

onCreateThumbnail

Added in API level 1
boolean onCreateThumbnail (Bitmap outBitmap, 
                Canvas canvas)

Generate a new thumbnail for this activity. This method is called before pausing the activity, and should draw into outBitmap the imagery for the desired thumbnail in the dimensions of that bitmap. It can use the given canvas, which is configured to draw into the bitmap, for rendering if desired.

The default implementation returns fails and does not draw a thumbnail; this will result in the platform creating its own thumbnail if needed.

Parameters
outBitmap Bitmap: The bitmap to contain the thumbnail.
canvas Canvas: Can be used to render into the bitmap.
Returns
boolean Return true if you have drawn into the bitmap; otherwise after you return it will be filled with a default thumbnail.

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onCreateView

Added in API level 11
View onCreateView (View parent, 
                String name, 
                Context context, 
                AttributeSet attrs)

Standard implementation of onCreateView(View, String, Context, AttributeSet) used when inflating with the LayoutInflater returned by getSystemService(Class). This implementation handles tags to embed fragments inside of the activity.

Parameters
parent View: The parent that the created view will be placed in; note that this may be null.
name String: Tag name to be inflated.
context Context: The context the view is being created in.
attrs AttributeSet: Inflation attributes as specified in XML file.
Returns
View View Newly created view. Return null for the default behavior.

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onCreateView

Added in API level 1
View onCreateView (String name, 
                Context context, 
                AttributeSet attrs)

Standard implementation of onCreateView(String, Context, AttributeSet) used when inflating with the LayoutInflater returned by getSystemService(Class). This implementation does nothing and is for pre-HONEYCOMB apps. Newer apps should use onCreateView(View, String, Context, AttributeSet).

Parameters
name String: Tag name to be inflated.
context Context: The context the view is being created in.
attrs AttributeSet: Inflation attributes as specified in XML file.
Returns
View View Newly created view. Return null for the default behavior.

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onDetachedFromWindow

Added in API level 5
void onDetachedFromWindow ()

Called when the main window associated with the activity has been detached from the window manager. See View.onDetachedFromWindow() for more information.

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onEnterAnimationComplete

Added in API level 21
void onEnterAnimationComplete ()

Activities cannot draw during the period that their windows are animating in. In order to know when it is safe to begin drawing they can override this method which will be called when the entering animation has completed.

onGenericMotionEvent

Added in API level 12
boolean onGenericMotionEvent (MotionEvent event)

Called when a generic motion event was not handled by any of the views inside of the activity.

Generic motion events describe joystick movements, mouse hovers, track pad touches, scroll wheel movements and other input events. The source of the motion event specifies the class of input that was received. Implementations of this method must examine the bits in the source before processing the event. The following code example shows how this is done.

Generic motion events with source class SOURCE_CLASS_POINTER are delivered to the view under the pointer. All other generic motion events are delivered to the focused view.

See onGenericMotionEvent(MotionEvent) for an example of how to handle this event.

Parameters
event MotionEvent: The generic motion event being processed.
Returns
boolean Return true if you have consumed the event, false if you haven't. The default implementation always returns false.

onKeyDown

Added in API level 1
boolean onKeyDown (int keyCode, 
                KeyEvent event)

Called when a key was pressed down and not handled by any of the views inside of the activity. So, for example, key presses while the cursor is inside a TextView will not trigger the event (unless it is a navigation to another object) because TextView handles its own key presses.

If the focused view didn't want this event, this method is called.

The default implementation takes care of KEYCODE_BACK by calling onBackPressed(), though the behavior varies based on the application compatibility mode: for ECLAIR or later applications, it will set up the dispatch to call onKeyUp(int, KeyEvent) where the action will be performed; for earlier applications, it will perform the action immediately in on-down, as those versions of the platform behaved.

Other additional default key handling may be performed if configured with setDefaultKeyMode(int).

Parameters
keyCode int: The value in event.getKeyCode().
event KeyEvent: Description of the key event.
Returns
boolean Return true to prevent this event from being propagated further, or false to indicate that you have not handled this event and it should continue to be propagated.

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onKeyLongPress

Added in API level 5
boolean onKeyLongPress (int keyCode, 
                KeyEvent event)

Default implementation of KeyEvent.Callback.onKeyLongPress(): always returns false (doesn't handle the event).

Parameters
keyCode int: The value in event.getKeyCode().
event KeyEvent: Description of the key event.
Returns
boolean If you handled the event, return true. If you want to allow the event to be handled by the next receiver, return false.

onKeyMultiple

Added in API level 1
boolean onKeyMultiple (int keyCode, 
                int repeatCount, 
                KeyEvent event)

Default implementation of KeyEvent.Callback.onKeyMultiple(): always returns false (doesn't handle the event).

Parameters
keyCode int: The value in event.getKeyCode().
repeatCount int: Number of pairs as returned by event.getRepeatCount().
event KeyEvent: Description of the key event.
Returns
boolean If you handled the event, return true. If you want to allow the event to be handled by the next receiver, return false.

onKeyShortcut

Added in API level 11
boolean onKeyShortcut (int keyCode, 
                KeyEvent event)

Called when a key shortcut event is not handled by any of the views in the Activity. Override this method to implement global key shortcuts for the Activity. Key shortcuts can also be implemented by setting the shortcut property of menu items.

Parameters
keyCode int: The value in event.getKeyCode().
event KeyEvent: Description of the key event.
Returns
boolean True if the key shortcut was handled.

onKeyUp

Added in API level 1
boolean onKeyUp (int keyCode, 
                KeyEvent event)

Called when a key was released and not handled by any of the views inside of the activity. So, for example, key presses while the cursor is inside a TextView will not trigger the event (unless it is a navigation to another object) because TextView handles its own key presses.

The default implementation handles KEYCODE_BACK to stop the activity and go back.

Parameters
keyCode int: The value in event.getKeyCode().
event KeyEvent: Description of the key event.
Returns
boolean Return true to prevent this event from being propagated further, or false to indicate that you have not handled this event and it should continue to be propagated.

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onLocalVoiceInteractionStarted

Added in API level 24
void onLocalVoiceInteractionStarted ()

Callback to indicate that startLocalVoiceInteraction(Bundle) has resulted in a voice interaction session being started. You can now retrieve a voice interactor using getVoiceInteractor().

onLocalVoiceInteractionStopped

Added in API level 24
void onLocalVoiceInteractionStopped ()

Callback to indicate that the local voice interaction has stopped either because it was requested through a call to stopLocalVoiceInteraction() or because it was canceled by the user. The previously acquired VoiceInteractor is no longer valid after this.

onLowMemory

Added in API level 1
void onLowMemory ()

This is called when the overall system is running low on memory, and actively running processes should trim their memory usage. While the exact point at which this will be called is not defined, generally it will happen when all background process have been killed. That is, before reaching the point of killing processes hosting service and foreground UI that we would like to avoid killing.

You should implement this method to release any caches or other unnecessary resources you may be holding on to. The system will perform a garbage collection for you after returning from this method.

Preferably, you should implement onTrimMemory(int) from ComponentCallbacks2 to incrementally unload your resources based on various levels of memory demands. That API is available for API level 14 and higher, so you should only use this onLowMemory() method as a fallback for older versions, which can be treated the same as onTrimMemory(int) with the TRIM_MEMORY_COMPLETE level.

onMenuItemSelected

Added in API level 1
boolean onMenuItemSelected (int featureId, 
                MenuItem item)

Default implementation of onMenuItemSelected(int, MenuItem) for activities. This calls through to the new onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem) method for the FEATURE_OPTIONS_PANEL panel, so that subclasses of Activity don't need to deal with feature codes.

Parameters
featureId int: The panel that the menu is in.
item MenuItem: The menu item that was selected.
Returns
boolean boolean Return true to finish processing of selection, or false to perform the normal menu handling (calling its Runnable or sending a Message to its target Handler).

onMenuOpened

Added in API level 1
boolean onMenuOpened (int featureId, 
                Menu menu)

Called when a panel's menu is opened by the user. This may also be called when the menu is changing from one type to another (for example, from the icon menu to the expanded menu).

Parameters
featureId int: The panel that the menu is in.
menu Menu: The menu that is opened.
Returns
boolean The default implementation returns true.

onMultiWindowModeChanged

Added in API level 24
void onMultiWindowModeChanged (boolean isInMultiWindowMode)

Called by the system when the activity changes from fullscreen mode to multi-window mode and visa-versa.

Parameters
isInMultiWindowMode boolean: True if the activity is in multi-window mode.

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onNavigateUp

Added in API level 16
boolean onNavigateUp ()

This method is called whenever the user chooses to navigate Up within your application's activity hierarchy from the action bar.

If the attribute parentActivityName was specified in the manifest for this activity or an activity-alias to it, default Up navigation will be handled automatically. If any activity along the parent chain requires extra Intent arguments, the Activity subclass should override the method onPrepareNavigateUpTaskStack(TaskStackBuilder) to supply those arguments.

See Tasks and Back Stack from the developer guide and Navigation from the design guide for more information about navigating within your app.

See the TaskStackBuilder class and the Activity methods getParentActivityIntent(), shouldUpRecreateTask(Intent), and navigateUpTo(Intent) for help implementing custom Up navigation. The AppNavigation sample application in the Android SDK is also available for reference.

Returns
boolean true if Up navigation completed successfully and this Activity was finished, false otherwise.

onNavigateUpFromChild

Added in API level 16
boolean onNavigateUpFromChild (Activity child)

This is called when a child activity of this one attempts to navigate up. The default implementation simply calls onNavigateUp() on this activity (the parent).

Parameters
child Activity: The activity making the call.
Returns
boolean

onOptionsItemSelected

Added in API level 1
boolean onOptionsItemSelected (MenuItem item)

This hook is called whenever an item in your options menu is selected. The default implementation simply returns false to have the normal processing happen (calling the item's Runnable or sending a message to its Handler as appropriate). You can use this method for any items for which you would like to do processing without those other facilities.

Derived classes should call through to the base class for it to perform the default menu handling.

Parameters
item MenuItem: The menu item that was selected.
Returns
boolean boolean Return false to allow normal menu processing to proceed, true to consume it here.

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onOptionsMenuClosed

Added in API level 1
void onOptionsMenuClosed (Menu menu)

This hook is called whenever the options menu is being closed (either by the user canceling the menu with the back/menu button, or when an item is selected).

Parameters
menu Menu: The options menu as last shown or first initialized by onCreateOptionsMenu().

onPanelClosed

Added in API level 1
void onPanelClosed (int featureId, 
                Menu menu)

Default implementation of onPanelClosed(int, Menu) for activities. This calls through to onOptionsMenuClosed(Menu) method for the FEATURE_OPTIONS_PANEL panel, so that subclasses of Activity don't need to deal with feature codes. For context menus (FEATURE_CONTEXT_MENU), the onContextMenuClosed(Menu) will be called.

Parameters
featureId int: The panel that is being displayed.
menu Menu: If onCreatePanelView() returned null, this is the Menu being displayed in the panel.

onPictureInPictureModeChanged

Added in API level 24
void onPictureInPictureModeChanged (boolean isInPictureInPictureMode)

Called by the system when the activity changes to and from picture-in-picture mode.

Parameters
isInPictureInPictureMode boolean: True if the activity is in picture-in-picture mode.

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onPostCreate

Added in API level 21
void onPostCreate (Bundle savedInstanceState, 
                PersistableBundle persistentState)

This is the same as onPostCreate(Bundle) but is called for activities created with the attribute persistableMode set to persistAcrossReboots.

Parameters
savedInstanceState Bundle: The data most recently supplied in onSaveInstanceState(Bundle)
persistentState PersistableBundle: The data caming from the PersistableBundle first saved in onSaveInstanceState(Bundle, PersistableBundle).

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onPrepareNavigateUpTaskStack

Added in API level 16
void onPrepareNavigateUpTaskStack (TaskStackBuilder builder)

Prepare the synthetic task stack that will be generated during Up navigation from a different task.

This method receives the TaskStackBuilder with the constructed series of Intents as generated by onCreateNavigateUpTaskStack(TaskStackBuilder). If any extra data should be added to these intents before launching the new task, the application should override this method and add that data here.

Parameters
builder TaskStackBuilder: A TaskStackBuilder that has been populated with Intents by onCreateNavigateUpTaskStack.

onPrepareOptionsMenu

Added in API level 1
boolean onPrepareOptionsMenu (Menu menu)

Prepare the Screen's standard options menu to be displayed. This is called right before the menu is shown, every time it is shown. You can use this method to efficiently enable/disable items or otherwise dynamically modify the contents.

The default implementation updates the system menu items based on the activity's state. Deriving classes should always call through to the base class implementation.

Parameters
menu Menu: The options menu as last shown or first initialized by onCreateOptionsMenu().
Returns
boolean You must return true for the menu to be displayed; if you return false it will not be shown.

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onPreparePanel

Added in API level 1
boolean onPreparePanel (int featureId, 
                View view, 
                Menu menu)

Default implementation of onPreparePanel(int, View, Menu) for activities. This calls through to the new onPrepareOptionsMenu(Menu) method for the FEATURE_OPTIONS_PANEL panel, so that subclasses of Activity don't need to deal with feature codes.

Parameters
featureId int: The panel that is being displayed.
view View: The View that was returned by onCreatePanelView().
menu Menu: If onCreatePanelView() returned null, this is the Menu being displayed in the panel.
Returns
boolean boolean You must return true for the panel to be displayed; if you return false it will not be shown.

onProvideAssistContent

Added in API level 23
void onProvideAssistContent (AssistContent outContent)

This is called when the user is requesting an assist, to provide references to content related to the current activity. Before being called, the outContent Intent is filled with the base Intent of the activity (the Intent returned by getIntent()). The Intent's extras are stripped of any types that are not valid for PersistableBundle or non-framework Parcelables, and the flags FLAG_GRANT_WRITE_URI_PERMISSION and FLAG_GRANT_PERSISTABLE_URI_PERMISSION are cleared from the Intent.

Custom implementation may adjust the content intent to better reflect the top-level context of the activity, and fill in its ClipData with additional content of interest that the user is currently viewing. For example, an image gallery application that has launched in to an activity allowing the user to swipe through pictures should modify the intent to reference the current image they are looking it; such an application when showing a list of pictures should add a ClipData that has references to all of the pictures currently visible on screen.

Parameters
outContent AssistContent: The assist content to return.

onProvideAssistData

Added in API level 18
void onProvideAssistData (Bundle data)

This is called when the user is requesting an assist, to build a full ACTION_ASSIST Intent with all of the context of the current application. You can override this method to place into the bundle anything you would like to appear in the EXTRA_ASSIST_CONTEXT part of the assist Intent.

This function will be called after any global assist callbacks that had been registered with Application.registerOnProvideAssistDataListener.

Parameters
data Bundle

onProvideKeyboardShortcuts

void onProvideKeyboardShortcuts (List<KeyboardShortcutGroup> data, 
                Menu menu, 
                int deviceId)

Called when Keyboard Shortcuts are requested for the current window.

Parameters
data List: The data list to populate with shortcuts.
menu Menu: The current menu, which may be null.
deviceId int: The id for the connected device the shortcuts should be provided for.

onProvideReferrer

Added in API level 23
Uri onProvideReferrer ()

Override to generate the desired referrer for the content currently being shown by the app. The default implementation returns null, meaning the referrer will simply be the android-app: of the package name of this activity. Return a non-null Uri to have that supplied as the EXTRA_REFERRER of any activities started from it.

Returns
Uri

onRequestPermissionsResult

Added in API level 23
void onRequestPermissionsResult (int requestCode, 
                String[] permissions, 
                int[] grantResults)

Callback for the result from requesting permissions. This method is invoked for every call on requestPermissions(String[], int).

Note: It is possible that the permissions request interaction with the user is interrupted. In this case you will receive empty permissions and results arrays which should be treated as a cancellation.

Parameters
requestCode int: The request code passed in requestPermissions(String[], int).
permissions String: The requested permissions. Never null.
grantResults int: The grant results for the corresponding permissions which is either PERMISSION_GRANTED or PERMISSION_DENIED. Never null.

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onRestoreInstanceState

Added in API level 21
void onRestoreInstanceState (Bundle savedInstanceState, 
                PersistableBundle persistentState)

This is the same as onRestoreInstanceState(Bundle) but is called for activities created with the attribute persistableMode set to persistAcrossReboots. The PersistableBundle passed came from the restored PersistableBundle first saved in onSaveInstanceState(Bundle, PersistableBundle).

This method is called between onStart() and onPostCreate(Bundle).

If this method is called onRestoreInstanceState(Bundle) will not be called.

Parameters
savedInstanceState Bundle: the data most recently supplied in onSaveInstanceState(Bundle).
persistentState PersistableBundle: the data most recently supplied in onSaveInstanceState(Bundle).

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onRetainNonConfigurationInstance

Added in API level 1
Object onRetainNonConfigurationInstance ()

Called by the system, as part of destroying an activity due to a configuration change, when it is known that a new instance will immediately be created for the new configuration. You can return any object you like here, including the activity instance itself, which can later be retrieved by calling getLastNonConfigurationInstance() in the new activity instance. If you are targeting HONEYCOMB or later, consider instead using a Fragment with Fragment.setRetainInstance(boolean.

This function is called purely as an optimization, and you must not rely on it being called. When it is called, a number of guarantees will be made to help optimize configuration switching:

  • The function will be called between onStop() and onDestroy().
  • A new instance of the activity will always be immediately created after this one's onDestroy() is called. In particular, no messages will be dispatched during this time (when the returned object does not have an activity to be associated with).
  • The object you return here will always be available from the getLastNonConfigurationInstance() method of the following activity instance as described there.

These guarantees are designed so that an activity can use this API to propagate extensive state from the old to new activity instance, from loaded bitmaps, to network connections, to evenly actively running threads. Note that you should not propagate any data that may change based on the configuration, including any data loaded from resources such as strings, layouts, or drawables.

The guarantee of no message handling during the switch to the next activity simplifies use with active objects. For example if your retained state is an AsyncTask you are guaranteed that its call back functions (like onPostExecute(Result)) will not be called from the call here until you execute the next instance's onCreate(Bundle). (Note however that there is of course no such guarantee for doInBackground(Params...) since that is running in a separate thread.)

Note: For most cases you should use the Fragment API setRetainInstance(boolean) instead; this is also available on older platforms through the Android support libraries.

Returns
Object any Object holding the desired state to propagate to the next activity instance

onSaveInstanceState

Added in API level 21
void onSaveInstanceState (Bundle outState, 
                PersistableBundle outPersistentState)

This is the same as onSaveInstanceState(Bundle) but is called for activities created with the attribute persistableMode set to persistAcrossReboots. The PersistableBundle passed in will be saved and presented in onCreate(Bundle, PersistableBundle) the first time that this activity is restarted following the next device reboot.

Parameters
outState Bundle: Bundle in which to place your saved state.
outPersistentState PersistableBundle: State which will be saved across reboots.

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onSearchRequested

Added in API level 23
boolean onSearchRequested (SearchEvent searchEvent)

This hook is called when the user signals the desire to start a search.

You can use this function as a simple way to launch the search UI, in response to a menu item, search button, or other widgets within your activity. Unless overidden, calling this function is the same as calling startSearch(null, false, null, false), which launches search for the current activity as specified in its manifest, see SearchManager.

You can override this function to force global search, e.g. in response to a dedicated search key, or to block search entirely (by simply returning false).

Note: when running in a UI_MODE_TYPE_TELEVISION, the default implementation changes to simply return false and you must supply your own custom implementation if you want to support search.

Parameters
searchEvent SearchEvent: The SearchEvent that signaled this search.
Returns
boolean Returns true if search launched, and false if the activity does not respond to search. The default implementation always returns true, except when in UI_MODE_TYPE_TELEVISION mode where it returns false.

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onSearchRequested

Added in API level 1
boolean onSearchRequested ()

Called when the user signals the desire to start a search.

Returns
boolean true if search launched, false if activity refuses (blocks)

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onStateNotSaved

Added in API level 23
void onStateNotSaved ()

Called when an onResume() is coming up, prior to other pre-resume callbacks such as onNewIntent(Intent) and onActivityResult(int, int, Intent). This is primarily intended to give the activity a hint that its state is no longer saved -- it will generally be called after onSaveInstanceState(Bundle) and prior to the activity being resumed/started again.

onTouchEvent

Added in API level 1
boolean onTouchEvent (MotionEvent event)

Called when a touch screen event was not handled by any of the views under it. This is most useful to process touch events that happen outside of your window bounds, where there is no view to receive it.

Parameters
event MotionEvent: The touch screen event being processed.
Returns
boolean Return true if you have consumed the event, false if you haven't. The default implementation always returns false.

onTrackballEvent

Added in API level 1
boolean onTrackballEvent (MotionEvent event)

Called when the trackball was moved and not handled by any of the views inside of the activity. So, for example, if the trackball moves while focus is on a button, you will receive a call here because buttons do not normally do anything with trackball events. The call here happens before trackball movements are converted to DPAD key events, which then get sent back to the view hierarchy, and will be processed at the point for things like focus navigation.

Parameters
event MotionEvent: The trackball event being processed.
Returns
boolean Return true if you have consumed the event, false if you haven't. The default implementation always returns false.

onTrimMemory

Added in API level 14
void onTrimMemory (int level)

Called when the operating system has determined that it is a good time for a process to trim unneeded memory from its process. This will happen for example when it goes in the background and there is not enough memory to keep as many background processes running as desired. You should never compare to exact values of the level, since new intermediate values may be added -- you will typically want to compare if the value is greater or equal to a level you are interested in.

To retrieve the processes current trim level at any point, you can use ActivityManager.getMyMemoryState(RunningAppProcessInfo).

Parameters
level int: The context of the trim, giving a hint of the amount of trimming the application may like to perform. May be TRIM_MEMORY_COMPLETE, TRIM_MEMORY_MODERATE, TRIM_MEMORY_BACKGROUND, TRIM_MEMORY_UI_HIDDEN, TRIM_MEMORY_RUNNING_CRITICAL, TRIM_MEMORY_RUNNING_LOW, or TRIM_MEMORY_RUNNING_MODERATE.

onUserInteraction

Added in API level 3
void onUserInteraction ()

Called whenever a key, touch, or trackball event is dispatched to the activity. Implement this method if you wish to know that the user has interacted with the device in some way while your activity is running. This callback and onUserLeaveHint() are intended to help activities manage status bar notifications intelligently; specifically, for helping activities determine the proper time to cancel a notfication.

All calls to your activity's onUserLeaveHint() callback will be accompanied by calls to onUserInteraction(). This ensures that your activity will be told of relevant user activity such as pulling down the notification pane and touching an item there.

Note that this callback will be invoked for the touch down action that begins a touch gesture, but may not be invoked for the touch-moved and touch-up actions that follow.

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onVisibleBehindCanceled

Added in API level 21
void onVisibleBehindCanceled ()

Called when a translucent activity over this activity is becoming opaque or another activity is being launched. Activities that override this method must call super.onVisibleBehindCanceled() or a SuperNotCalledException will be thrown.

When this method is called the activity has 500 msec to release any resources it may be using while visible in the background. If the activity has not returned from this method in 500 msec the system will destroy the activity and kill the process in order to recover the resources for another process. Otherwise onStop() will be called following return.

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onWindowAttributesChanged

Added in API level 1
void onWindowAttributesChanged (WindowManager.LayoutParams params)

This is called whenever the current window attributes change.

Parameters
params WindowManager.LayoutParams

onWindowFocusChanged

Added in API level 1
void onWindowFocusChanged (boolean hasFocus)

Called when the current Window of the activity gains or loses focus. This is the best indicator of whether this activity is visible to the user. The default implementation clears the key tracking state, so should always be called.

Note that this provides information about global focus state, which is managed independently of activity lifecycles. As such, while focus changes will generally have some relation to lifecycle changes (an activity that is stopped will not generally get window focus), you should not rely on any particular order between the callbacks here and those in the other lifecycle methods such as onResume().

As a general rule, however, a resumed activity will have window focus... unless it has displayed other dialogs or popups that take input focus, in which case the activity itself will not have focus when the other windows have it. Likewise, the system may display system-level windows (such as the status bar notification panel or a system alert) which will temporarily take window input focus without pausing the foreground activity.

Parameters
hasFocus boolean: Whether the window of this activity has focus.

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onWindowStartingActionMode

Added in API level 23
ActionMode onWindowStartingActionMode (ActionMode.Callback callback, 
                int type)

Called when an action mode is being started for this window. Gives the callback an opportunity to handle the action mode in its own unique and beautiful way. If this method returns null the system can choose a way to present the mode or choose not to start the mode at all.

Parameters
callback ActionMode.Callback: Callback to control the lifecycle of this action mode
type int: One of TYPE_PRIMARY or TYPE_FLOATING.
Returns
ActionMode The ActionMode that was started, or null if the system should present it

onWindowStartingActionMode

Added in API level 11
ActionMode onWindowStartingActionMode (ActionMode.Callback callback)

Give the Activity a chance to control the UI for an action mode requested by the system.

Note: If you are looking for a notification callback that an action mode has been started for this activity, see onActionModeStarted(ActionMode).

Parameters
callback ActionMode.Callback: The callback that should control the new action mode
Returns
ActionMode The new action mode, or null if the activity does not want to provide special handling for this action mode. (It will be handled by the system.)

openContextMenu

Added in API level 1
void openContextMenu (View view)

Programmatically opens the context menu for a particular view. The view should have been added via registerForContextMenu(View).

Parameters
view View: The view to show the context menu for.

openOptionsMenu

Added in API level 1
void openOptionsMenu ()

Programmatically opens the options menu. If the options menu is already open, this method does nothing.

overridePendingTransition

Added in API level 5
void overridePendingTransition (int enterAnim, 
                int exitAnim)

Call immediately after one of the flavors of startActivity(Intent) or finish() to specify an explicit transition animation to perform next.

As of JELLY_BEAN an alternative to using this with starting activities is to supply the desired animation information through a ActivityOptions bundle to {@link #startActivity(Intent, Bundle) or a related function. This allows you to specify a custom animation even when starting an activity from outside the context of the current top activity.

Parameters
enterAnim int: A resource ID of the animation resource to use for the incoming activity. Use 0 for no animation.
exitAnim int: A resource ID of the animation resource to use for the outgoing activity. Use 0 for no animation.

postponeEnterTransition

Added in API level 21
void postponeEnterTransition ()

Postpone the entering activity transition when Activity was started with makeSceneTransitionAnimation(Activity, android.util.Pair[]).

This method gives the Activity the ability to delay starting the entering and shared element transitions until all data is loaded. Until then, the Activity won't draw into its window, leaving the window transparent. This may also cause the returning animation to be delayed until data is ready. This method should be called in onCreate(android.os.Bundle) or in onActivityReenter(int, android.content.Intent). startPostponedEnterTransition() must be called to allow the Activity to start the transitions. If the Activity did not use makeSceneTransitionAnimation(Activity, android.util.Pair[]), then this method does nothing.

recreate

Added in API level 11
void recreate ()

Cause this Activity to be recreated with a new instance. This results in essentially the same flow as when the Activity is created due to a configuration change -- the current instance will go through its lifecycle to onDestroy() and a new instance then created after it.

registerForContextMenu

Added in API level 1
void registerForContextMenu (View view)

Registers a context menu to be shown for the given view (multiple views can show the context menu). This method will set the View.OnCreateContextMenuListener on the view to this activity, so onCreateContextMenu(ContextMenu, View, ContextMenuInfo) will be called when it is time to show the context menu.

Parameters
view View: The view that should show a context menu.

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releaseInstance

Added in API level 21
boolean releaseInstance ()

Ask that the local app instance of this activity be released to free up its memory. This is asking for the activity to be destroyed, but does not finish the activity -- a new instance of the activity will later be re-created if needed due to the user navigating back to it.

Returns
boolean Returns true if the activity was in a state that it has started the process of destroying its current instance; returns false if for any reason this could not be done: it is currently visible to the user, it is already being destroyed, it is being finished, it hasn't yet saved its state, etc.

removeDialog

Added in API level 1
void removeDialog (int id)

This method was deprecated in API level 13.
Use the new DialogFragment class with FragmentManager instead; this is also available on older platforms through the Android compatibility package.

Removes any internal references to a dialog managed by this Activity. If the dialog is showing, it will dismiss it as part of the clean up.

This can be useful if you know that you will never show a dialog again and want to avoid the overhead of saving and restoring it in the future.

As of GINGERBREAD, this function will not throw an exception if you try to remove an ID that does not currently have an associated dialog.

Parameters
id int: The id of the managed dialog.

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reportFullyDrawn

Added in API level 19
void reportFullyDrawn ()

Report to the system that your app is now fully drawn, purely for diagnostic purposes (calling it does not impact the visible behavior of the activity). This is only used to help instrument application launch times, so that the app can report when it is fully in a usable state; without this, the only thing the system itself can determine is the point at which the activity's window is first drawn and displayed. To participate in app launch time measurement, you should always call this method after first launch (when onCreate(android.os.Bundle) is called), at the point where you have entirely drawn your UI and populated with all of the significant data. You can safely call this method any time after first launch as well, in which case it will simply be ignored.

requestDragAndDropPermissions

Added in API level 24
DragAndDropPermissions requestDragAndDropPermissions (DragEvent event)

Create DragAndDropPermissions object bound to this activity and controlling the access permissions for content URIs associated with the DragEvent.

Parameters
event DragEvent: Drag event
Returns
DragAndDropPermissions The DragAndDropPermissions object used to control access to the content URIs. Null if no content URIs are associated with the event or if permissions could not be granted.

requestPermissions

Added in API level 23
void requestPermissions (String[] permissions, 
                int requestCode)

Requests permissions to be granted to this application. These permissions must be requested in your manifest, they should not be granted to your app, and they should have protection level #PROTECTION_DANGEROUS dangerous, regardless whether they are declared by the platform or a third-party app.

Normal permissions PROTECTION_NORMAL are granted at install time if requested in the manifest. Signature permissions PROTECTION_SIGNATURE are granted at install time if requested in the manifest and the signature of your app matches the signature of the app declaring the permissions.

If your app does not have the requested permissions the user will be presented with UI for accepting them. After the user has accepted or rejected the requested permissions you will receive a callback on onRequestPermissionsResult(int, String[], int[]) reporting whether the permissions were granted or not.

Note that requesting a permission does not guarantee it will be granted and your app should be able to run without having this permission.

This method may start an activity allowing the user to choose which permissions to grant and which to reject. Hence, you should be prepared that your activity may be paused and resumed. Further, granting some permissions may require a restart of you application. In such a case, the system will recreate the activity stack before delivering the result to onRequestPermissionsResult(int, String[], int[]).

When checking whether you have a permission you should use checkSelfPermission(String).

Calling this API for permissions already granted to your app would show UI to the user to decide whether the app can still hold these permissions. This can be useful if the way your app uses data guarded by the permissions changes significantly.

You cannot request a permission if your activity sets noHistory to true because in this case the activity would not receive result callbacks including onRequestPermissionsResult(int, String[], int[]).

The RuntimePermissions sample app demonstrates how to use this method to request permissions at run time.

Parameters
permissions String: The requested permissions. Must me non-null and not empty.
requestCode int: Application specific request code to match with a result reported to onRequestPermissionsResult(int, String[], int[]). Should be >= 0.

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requestShowKeyboardShortcuts

Added in API level 24
void requestShowKeyboardShortcuts ()

Request the Keyboard Shortcuts screen to show up. This will trigger onProvideKeyboardShortcuts(List, Menu, int) to retrieve the shortcuts for the foreground activity.

requestVisibleBehind

Added in API level 21
boolean requestVisibleBehind (boolean visible)

Activities that want to remain visible behind a translucent activity above them must call this method anytime between the start of onResume() and the return from onPause(). If this call is successful then the activity will remain visible after onPause() is called, and is allowed to continue playing media in the background.

The actions of this call are reset each time that this activity is brought to the front. That is, every time onResume() is called the activity will be assumed to not have requested visible behind. Therefore, if you want this activity to continue to be visible in the background you must call this method again.

Only fullscreen opaque activities may make this call. I.e. this call is a nop for dialog and translucent activities.

Under all circumstances, the activity must stop playing and release resources prior to or within a call to onVisibleBehindCanceled() or if this call returns false.

False will be returned any time this method is called between the return of onPause and the next call to onResume.

Parameters
visible boolean: true to notify the system that the activity wishes to be visible behind other translucent activities, false to indicate otherwise. Resources must be released when passing false to this method.
Returns
boolean the resulting visibiity state. If true the activity will remain visible beyond onPause() if the next activity is translucent or not fullscreen. If false then the activity may not count on being visible behind other translucent activities, and must stop any media playback and release resources. Returning false may occur in lieu of a call to onVisibleBehindCanceled() so the return value must be checked.

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requestWindowFeature

Added in API level 1
boolean requestWindowFeature (int featureId)

Enable extended window features. This is a convenience for calling getWindow().requestFeature().

Parameters
featureId int: The desired feature as defined in Window.
Returns
boolean Returns true if the requested feature is supported and now enabled.

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runOnUiThread

Added in API level 1
void runOnUiThread (Runnable action)

Runs the specified action on the UI thread. If the current thread is the UI thread, then the action is executed immediately. If the current thread is not the UI thread, the action is posted to the event queue of the UI thread.

Parameters
action Runnable: the action to run on the UI thread

setActionBar

Added in API level 21
void setActionBar (Toolbar toolbar)

Set a Toolbar to act as the ActionBar for this Activity window.

When set to a non-null value the getActionBar() method will return an ActionBar object that can be used to control the given toolbar as if it were a traditional window decor action bar. The toolbar's menu will be populated with the Activity's options menu and the navigation button will be wired through the standard home menu select action.

In order to use a Toolbar within the Activity's window content the application must not request the window feature FEATURE_ACTION_BAR.

Parameters
toolbar Toolbar: Toolbar to set as the Activity's action bar, or null to clear it

setContentTransitionManager

Added in API level 21
void setContentTransitionManager (TransitionManager tm)

Set the TransitionManager to use for default transitions in this window. Requires FEATURE_CONTENT_TRANSITIONS.

Parameters
tm TransitionManager: The TransitionManager to use for scene changes.

setContentView

Added in API level 1
void setContentView (View view, 
                ViewGroup.LayoutParams params)

Set the activity content to an explicit view. This view is placed directly into the activity's view hierarchy. It can itself be a complex view hierarchy.

Parameters
view View: The desired content to display.
params ViewGroup.LayoutParams: Layout parameters for the view.

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setContentView

Added in API level 1
void setContentView (View view)

Set the activity content to an explicit view. This view is placed directly into the activity's view hierarchy. It can itself be a complex view hierarchy. When calling this method, the layout parameters of the specified view are ignored. Both the width and the height of the view are set by default to MATCH_PARENT. To use your own layout parameters, invoke setContentView(android.view.View, android.view.ViewGroup.LayoutParams) instead.

Parameters
view View: The desired content to display.

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setContentView

Added in API level 1
void setContentView (int layoutResID)

Set the activity content from a layout resource. The resource will be inflated, adding all top-level views to the activity.

Parameters
layoutResID int: Resource ID to be inflated.

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setDefaultKeyMode

Added in API level 1
void setDefaultKeyMode (int mode)

Select the default key handling for this activity. This controls what will happen to key events that are not otherwise handled. The default mode (DEFAULT_KEYS_DISABLE) will simply drop them on the floor. Other modes allow you to launch the dialer (DEFAULT_KEYS_DIALER), execute a shortcut in your options menu without requiring the menu key be held down (DEFAULT_KEYS_SHORTCUT), or launch a search (DEFAULT_KEYS_SEARCH_LOCAL and DEFAULT_KEYS_SEARCH_GLOBAL).

Note that the mode selected here does not impact the default handling of system keys, such as the "back" and "menu" keys, and your activity and its views always get a first chance to receive and handle all application keys.

Parameters
mode int: The desired default key mode constant.

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setEnterSharedElementCallback

Added in API level 21
void setEnterSharedElementCallback (SharedElementCallback callback)

When makeSceneTransitionAnimation(Activity, android.view.View, String) was used to start an Activity, callback will be called to handle shared elements on the launched Activity. This requires FEATURE_ACTIVITY_TRANSITIONS.

Parameters
callback SharedElementCallback: Used to manipulate shared element transitions on the launched Activity.

setExitSharedElementCallback

Added in API level 21
void setExitSharedElementCallback (SharedElementCallback callback)

When makeSceneTransitionAnimation(Activity, android.view.View, String) was used to start an Activity, callback will be called to handle shared elements on the launching Activity. Most calls will only come when returning from the started Activity. This requires FEATURE_ACTIVITY_TRANSITIONS.

Parameters
callback SharedElementCallback: Used to manipulate shared element transitions on the launching Activity.

setFeatureDrawable

Added in API level 1
void setFeatureDrawable (int featureId, 
                Drawable drawable)

Convenience for calling setFeatureDrawable(int, Drawable).

Parameters
featureId int
drawable Drawable

setFeatureDrawableAlpha

Added in API level 1
void setFeatureDrawableAlpha (int featureId, 
                int alpha)

Convenience for calling setFeatureDrawableAlpha(int, int).

Parameters
featureId int
alpha int

setFeatureDrawableResource

Added in API level 1
void setFeatureDrawableResource (int featureId, 
                int resId)

Convenience for calling setFeatureDrawableResource(int, int).

Parameters
featureId int
resId int

setFeatureDrawableUri

Added in API level 1
void setFeatureDrawableUri (int featureId, 
                Uri uri)

Convenience for calling setFeatureDrawableUri(int, Uri).

Parameters
featureId int
uri Uri

setFinishOnTouchOutside

Added in API level 11
void setFinishOnTouchOutside (boolean finish)

Sets whether this activity is finished when touched outside its window's bounds.

Parameters
finish boolean

setImmersive

Added in API level 18
void setImmersive (boolean i)

Adjust the current immersive mode setting. Note that changing this value will have no effect on the activity's ActivityInfo structure; that is, if android:immersive is set to true in the application's manifest entry for this activity, the ActivityInfo.flags member will always have its FLAG_IMMERSIVE bit set.

Parameters
i boolean

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setIntent

Added in API level 1
void setIntent (Intent newIntent)

Change the intent returned by getIntent(). This holds a reference to the given intent; it does not copy it. Often used in conjunction with onNewIntent(Intent).

Parameters
newIntent Intent: The new Intent object to return from getIntent

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setMediaController

Added in API level 21
void setMediaController (MediaController controller)

Sets a MediaController to send media keys and volume changes to.

The controller will be tied to the window of this Activity. Media key and volume events which are received while the Activity is in the foreground will be forwarded to the controller and used to invoke transport controls or adjust the volume. This may be used instead of or in addition to setVolumeControlStream(int) to affect a specific session instead of a specific stream.

It is not guaranteed that the hardware volume controls will always change this session's volume (for example, if a call is in progress, its stream's volume may be changed instead). To reset back to the default use null as the controller.

Parameters
controller MediaController: The controller for the session which should receive media keys and volume changes.

setProgress

Added in API level 1
void setProgress (int progress)

This method was deprecated in API level 24.
No longer supported starting in API 21.

Sets the progress for the progress bars in the title.

In order for the progress bar to be shown, the feature must be requested via requestWindowFeature(int).

Parameters
progress int: The progress for the progress bar. Valid ranges are from 0 to 10000 (both inclusive). If 10000 is given, the progress bar will be completely filled and will fade out.

setProgressBarIndeterminate

Added in API level 1
void setProgressBarIndeterminate (boolean indeterminate)

This method was deprecated in API level 24.
No longer supported starting in API 21.

Sets whether the horizontal progress bar in the title should be indeterminate (the circular is always indeterminate).

In order for the progress bar to be shown, the feature must be requested via requestWindowFeature(int).

Parameters
indeterminate boolean: Whether the horizontal progress bar should be indeterminate.

setProgressBarIndeterminateVisibility

Added in API level 1
void setProgressBarIndeterminateVisibility (boolean visible)

This method was deprecated in API level 24.
No longer supported starting in API 21.

Sets the visibility of the indeterminate progress bar in the title.

In order for the progress bar to be shown, the feature must be requested via requestWindowFeature(int).

Parameters
visible boolean: Whether to show the progress bars in the title.

setProgressBarVisibility

Added in API level 1
void setProgressBarVisibility (boolean visible)

This method was deprecated in API level 24.
No longer supported starting in API 21.

Sets the visibility of the progress bar in the title.

In order for the progress bar to be shown, the feature must be requested via requestWindowFeature(int).

Parameters
visible boolean: Whether to show the progress bars in the title.

setRequestedOrientation

Added in API level 1
void setRequestedOrientation (int requestedOrientation)

Change the desired orientation of this activity. If the activity is currently in the foreground or otherwise impacting the screen orientation, the screen will immediately be changed (possibly causing the activity to be restarted). Otherwise, this will be used the next time the activity is visible.

Parameters
requestedOrientation int: An orientation constant as used in ActivityInfo.screenOrientation.

setResult

Added in API level 1
void setResult (int resultCode, 
                Intent data)

Call this to set the result that your activity will return to its caller.

As of GINGERBREAD, the Intent you supply here can have Intent.FLAG_GRANT_READ_URI_PERMISSION and/or Intent.FLAG_GRANT_WRITE_URI_PERMISSION set. This will grant the Activity receiving the result access to the specific URIs in the Intent. Access will remain until the Activity has finished (it will remain across the hosting process being killed and other temporary destruction) and will be added to any existing set of URI permissions it already holds.

Parameters
resultCode int: The result code to propagate back to the originating activity, often RESULT_CANCELED or RESULT_OK
data Intent: The data to propagate back to the originating activity.

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setResult

Added in API level 1
void setResult (int resultCode)

Call this to set the result that your activity will return to its caller.

Parameters
resultCode int: The result code to propagate back to the originating activity, often RESULT_CANCELED or RESULT_OK

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setSecondaryProgress

Added in API level 1
void setSecondaryProgress (int secondaryProgress)

This method was deprecated in API level 24.
No longer supported starting in API 21.

Sets the secondary progress for the progress bar in the title. This progress is drawn between the primary progress (set via setProgress(int) and the background. It can be ideal for media scenarios such as showing the buffering progress while the default progress shows the play progress.

In order for the progress bar to be shown, the feature must be requested via requestWindowFeature(int).

Parameters
secondaryProgress int: The secondary progress for the progress bar. Valid ranges are from 0 to 10000 (both inclusive).

setTaskDescription

Added in API level 21
void setTaskDescription (ActivityManager.TaskDescription taskDescription)

Sets information describing the task with this activity for presentation inside the Recents System UI. When getRecentTasks(int, int) is called, the activities of each task are traversed in order from the topmost activity to the bottommost. The traversal continues for each property until a suitable value is found. For each task the taskDescription will be returned in ActivityManager.TaskDescription.

Parameters
taskDescription ActivityManager.TaskDescription: The TaskDescription properties that describe the task with this activity

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setTheme

Added in API level 1
void setTheme (int resid)

Set the base theme for this context. Note that this should be called before any views are instantiated in the Context (for example before calling setContentView(View) or inflate(int, ViewGroup)).

Parameters
resid int: The style resource describing the theme.

setTitle

Added in API level 1
void setTitle (CharSequence title)

Change the title associated with this activity. If this is a top-level activity, the title for its window will change. If it is an embedded activity, the parent can do whatever it wants with it.

Parameters
title CharSequence

setTitle

Added in API level 1
void setTitle (int titleId)

Change the title associated with this activity. If this is a top-level activity, the title for its window will change. If it is an embedded activity, the parent can do whatever it wants with it.

Parameters
titleId int

setTitleColor

Added in API level 1
void setTitleColor (int textColor)

This method was deprecated in API level 21.
Use action bar styles instead.

Change the color of the title associated with this activity.

This method is deprecated starting in API Level 11 and replaced by action bar styles. For information on styling the Action Bar, read the Action Bar developer guide.

Parameters
textColor int

setVisible

Added in API level 3
void setVisible (boolean visible)

Control whether this activity's main window is visible. This is intended only for the special case of an activity that is not going to show a UI itself, but can't just finish prior to onResume() because it needs to wait for a service binding or such. Setting this to false allows you to prevent your UI from being shown during that time.

The default value for this is taken from the windowNoDisplay attribute of the activity's theme.

Parameters
visible boolean

setVolumeControlStream

Added in API level 1
void setVolumeControlStream (int streamType)

Suggests an audio stream whose volume should be changed by the hardware volume controls.

The suggested audio stream will be tied to the window of this Activity. Volume requests which are received while the Activity is in the foreground will affect this stream.

It is not guaranteed that the hardware volume controls will always change this stream's volume (for example, if a call is in progress, its stream's volume may be changed instead). To reset back to the default, use USE_DEFAULT_STREAM_TYPE.

Parameters
streamType int: The type of the audio stream whose volume should be changed by the hardware volume controls.

setVrModeEnabled

Added in API level 24
void setVrModeEnabled (boolean enabled, 
                ComponentName requestedComponent)

Enable or disable virtual reality (VR) mode for this Activity.

VR mode is a hint to Android system to switch to a mode optimized for VR applications while this Activity has user focus.

It is recommended that applications additionally declare enableVrMode in their manifest to allow for smooth activity transitions when switching between VR activities.

If the requested VrListenerService component is not available, VR mode will not be started. Developers can handle this case as follows:

 String servicePackage = "com.whatever.app";
 String serviceClass = "com.whatever.app.MyVrListenerService";

 // Name of the component of the VrListenerService to start.
 ComponentName serviceComponent = new ComponentName(servicePackage, serviceClass);

 try {
    setVrModeEnabled(true, myComponentName);
 } catch (PackageManager.NameNotFoundException e) {
        List<ApplicationInfo> installed = getPackageManager().getInstalledApplications(0);
        boolean isInstalled = false;
        for (ApplicationInfo app : installed) {
            if (app.packageName.equals(servicePackage)) {
                isInstalled = true;
                break;
            }
        }
        if (isInstalled) {
            // Package is installed, but not enabled in Settings.  Let user enable it.
            startActivity(new Intent(Settings.ACTION_VR_LISTENER_SETTINGS));
        } else {
            // Package is not installed.  Send an intent to download this.
            sentIntentToLaunchAppStore(servicePackage);
        }
 }
 

Parameters
enabled boolean: true to enable this mode.
requestedComponent ComponentName: the name of the component to use as a VrListenerService while VR mode is enabled.
Throws
PackageManager.NameNotFoundException if the given component to run as a VrListenerService is not installed, or has not been enabled in user settings.

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shouldShowRequestPermissionRationale

Added in API level 23
boolean shouldShowRequestPermissionRationale (String permission)

Gets whether you should show UI with rationale for requesting a permission. You should do this only if you do not have the permission and the context in which the permission is requested does not clearly communicate to the user what would be the benefit from granting this permission.

For example, if you write a camera app, requesting the camera permission would be expected by the user and no rationale for why it is requested is needed. If however, the app needs location for tagging photos then a non-tech savvy user may wonder how location is related to taking photos. In this case you may choose to show UI with rationale of requesting this permission.

Parameters
permission String: A permission your app wants to request.
Returns
boolean Whether you can show permission rationale UI.

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shouldUpRecreateTask

Added in API level 16
boolean shouldUpRecreateTask (Intent targetIntent)

Returns true if the app should recreate the task when navigating 'up' from this activity by using targetIntent.

If this method returns false the app can trivially call navigateUpTo(Intent) using the same parameters to correctly perform up navigation. If this method returns false, the app should synthesize a new task stack by using TaskStackBuilder or another similar mechanism to perform up navigation.

Parameters
targetIntent Intent: An intent representing the target destination for up navigation
Returns
boolean true if navigating up should recreate a new task stack, false if the same task should be used for the destination

showAssist

Added in API level 23
boolean showAssist (Bundle args)

Ask to have the current assistant shown to the user. This only works if the calling activity is the current foreground activity. It is the same as calling VoiceInteractionService.showSession and requesting all of the possible context. The receiver will always see SHOW_SOURCE_APPLICATION set.

Parameters
args Bundle
Returns
boolean Returns true if the assistant was successfully invoked, else false. For example false will be returned if the caller is not the current top activity.

showDialog

Added in API level 8
boolean showDialog (int id, 
                Bundle args)

This method was deprecated in API level 13.
Use the new DialogFragment class with FragmentManager instead; this is also available on older platforms through the Android compatibility package.

Show a dialog managed by this activity. A call to onCreateDialog(int, Bundle) will be made with the same id the first time this is called for a given id. From thereafter, the dialog will be automatically saved and restored. If you are targeting HONEYCOMB or later, consider instead using a DialogFragment instead.

Each time a dialog is shown, onPrepareDialog(int, Dialog, Bundle) will be made to provide an opportunity to do any timely preparation.

Parameters
id int: The id of the managed dialog.
args Bundle: Arguments to pass through to the dialog. These will be saved and restored for you. Note that if the dialog is already created, onCreateDialog(int, Bundle) will not be called with the new arguments but onPrepareDialog(int, Dialog, Bundle) will be. If you need to rebuild the dialog, call removeDialog(int) first.
Returns
boolean Returns true if the Dialog was created; false is returned if it is not created because onCreateDialog(int, Bundle) returns false.

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showDialog

Added in API level 1
void showDialog (int id)

This method was deprecated in API level 13.
Use the new DialogFragment class with FragmentManager instead; this is also available on older platforms through the Android compatibility package.

Simple version of showDialog(int, Bundle) that does not take any arguments. Simply calls showDialog(int, Bundle) with null arguments.

Parameters
id int

showLockTaskEscapeMessage

Added in API level 23
void showLockTaskEscapeMessage ()

Shows the user the system defined message for telling the user how to exit lock task mode. The task containing this activity must be in lock task mode at the time of this call for the message to be displayed.

startActionMode

Added in API level 23
ActionMode startActionMode (ActionMode.Callback callback, 
                int type)

Start an action mode of the given type.

Parameters
callback ActionMode.Callback: Callback that will manage lifecycle events for this action mode
type int: One of TYPE_PRIMARY or TYPE_FLOATING.
Returns
ActionMode The ActionMode that was started, or null if it was canceled

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startActionMode

Added in API level 11
ActionMode startActionMode (ActionMode.Callback callback)

Start an action mode of the default type TYPE_PRIMARY.

Parameters
callback ActionMode.Callback: Callback that will manage lifecycle events for this action mode
Returns
ActionMode The ActionMode that was started, or null if it was canceled

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startActivities

Added in API level 16
void startActivities (Intent[] intents, 
                Bundle options)

Launch a new activity. You will not receive any information about when the activity exits. This implementation overrides the base version, providing information about the activity performing the launch. Because of this additional information, the FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK launch flag is not required; if not specified, the new activity will be added to the task of the caller.

This method throws ActivityNotFoundException if there was no Activity found to run the given Intent.

Parameters
intents Intent: The intents to start.
options Bundle: Additional options for how the Activity should be started. See Context.startActivity(Intent, Bundle) for more details.
Throws
android.content.ActivityNotFoundException

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startActivities

Added in API level 11
void startActivities (Intent[] intents)

Same as startActivities(Intent[], Bundle) with no options specified.

Parameters
intents Intent: The intents to start.
Throws
android.content.ActivityNotFoundException

See also:

startActivity

Added in API level 1
void startActivity (Intent intent)

Same as startActivity(Intent, Bundle) with no options specified.

Parameters
intent Intent: The intent to start.
Throws
android.content.ActivityNotFoundException

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startActivity

Added in API level 16
void startActivity (Intent intent, 
                Bundle options)

Launch a new activity. You will not receive any information about when the activity exits. This implementation overrides the base version, providing information about the activity performing the launch. Because of this additional information, the FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK launch flag is not required; if not specified, the new activity will be added to the task of the caller.

This method throws ActivityNotFoundException if there was no Activity found to run the given Intent.

Parameters
intent Intent: The intent to start.
options Bundle: Additional options for how the Activity should be started. See Context.startActivity(Intent, Bundle) for more details.
Throws
android.content.ActivityNotFoundException

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startActivityForResult

Added in API level 1
void startActivityForResult (Intent intent, 
                int requestCode)

Same as calling startActivityForResult(Intent, int, Bundle) with no options.

Parameters
intent Intent: The intent to start.
requestCode int: If >= 0, this code will be returned in onActivityResult() when the activity exits.
Throws
android.content.ActivityNotFoundException

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startActivityForResult

Added in API level 16
void startActivityForResult (Intent intent, 
                int requestCode, 
                Bundle options)

Launch an activity for which you would like a result when it finished. When this activity exits, your onActivityResult() method will be called with the given requestCode. Using a negative requestCode is the same as calling startActivity(Intent) (the activity is not launched as a sub-activity).

Note that this method should only be used with Intent protocols that are defined to return a result. In other protocols (such as ACTION_MAIN or ACTION_VIEW), you may not get the result when you expect. For example, if the activity you are launching uses the singleTask launch mode, it will not run in your task and thus you will immediately receive a cancel result.

As a special case, if you call startActivityForResult() with a requestCode >= 0 during the initial onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState)/onResume() of your activity, then your window will not be displayed until a result is returned back from the started activity. This is to avoid visible flickering when redirecting to another activity.

This method throws ActivityNotFoundException if there was no Activity found to run the given Intent.

Parameters
intent Intent: The intent to start.
requestCode int: If >= 0, this code will be returned in onActivityResult() when the activity exits.
options Bundle: Additional options for how the Activity should be started. See Context.startActivity(Intent, Bundle) for more details.
Throws
android.content.ActivityNotFoundException

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startActivityFromChild

Added in API level 1
void startActivityFromChild (Activity child, 
                Intent intent, 
                int requestCode)

Same as calling startActivityFromChild(Activity, Intent, int, Bundle) with no options.

Parameters
child Activity: The activity making the call.
intent Intent: The intent to start.
requestCode int: Reply request code. < 0 if reply is not requested.
Throws
android.content.ActivityNotFoundException

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startActivityFromChild

Added in API level 16
void startActivityFromChild (Activity child, 
                Intent intent, 
                int requestCode, 
                Bundle options)

This is called when a child activity of this one calls its startActivity(Intent) or startActivityForResult(Intent, int) method.

This method throws ActivityNotFoundException if there was no Activity found to run the given Intent.

Parameters
child Activity: The activity making the call.
intent Intent: The intent to start.
requestCode int: Reply request code. < 0 if reply is not requested.
options Bundle: Additional options for how the Activity should be started. See Context.startActivity(Intent, Bundle) for more details.
Throws
android.content.ActivityNotFoundException

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startActivityFromFragment

Added in API level 16
void startActivityFromFragment (Fragment fragment, 
                Intent intent, 
                int requestCode, 
                Bundle options)

This is called when a Fragment in this activity calls its startActivity(Intent) or startActivityForResult(Intent, int) method.

This method throws ActivityNotFoundException if there was no Activity found to run the given Intent.

Parameters
fragment Fragment: The fragment making the call.
intent Intent: The intent to start.
requestCode int: Reply request code. < 0 if reply is not requested.
options Bundle: Additional options for how the Activity should be started. See Context.startActivity(Intent, Bundle) for more details.
Throws
android.content.ActivityNotFoundException

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startActivityFromFragment

Added in API level 11
void startActivityFromFragment (Fragment fragment, 
                Intent intent, 
                int requestCode)

Same as calling startActivityFromFragment(Fragment, Intent, int, Bundle) with no options.

Parameters
fragment Fragment: The fragment making the call.
intent Intent: The intent to start.
requestCode int: Reply request code. < 0 if reply is not requested.
Throws
android.content.ActivityNotFoundException

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startActivityIfNeeded

Added in API level 16
boolean startActivityIfNeeded (Intent intent, 
                int requestCode, 
                Bundle options)

A special variation to launch an activity only if a new activity instance is needed to handle the given Intent. In other words, this is just like startActivityForResult(Intent, int) except: if you are using the FLAG_ACTIVITY_SINGLE_TOP flag, or singleTask or singleTop launchMode, and the activity that handles intent is the same as your currently running activity, then a new instance is not needed. In this case, instead of the normal behavior of calling onNewIntent(Intent) this function will return and you can handle the Intent yourself.

This function can only be called from a top-level activity; if it is called from a child activity, a runtime exception will be thrown.

Parameters
intent Intent: The intent to start.
requestCode int: If >= 0, this code will be returned in onActivityResult() when the activity exits, as described in startActivityForResult(Intent, int).
options Bundle: Additional options for how the Activity should be started. See Context.startActivity(Intent, Bundle) for more details.
Returns
boolean If a new activity was launched then true is returned; otherwise false is returned and you must handle the Intent yourself.

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startActivityIfNeeded

Added in API level 1
boolean startActivityIfNeeded (Intent intent, 
                int requestCode)

Same as calling startActivityIfNeeded(Intent, int, Bundle) with no options.

Parameters
intent Intent: The intent to start.
requestCode int: If >= 0, this code will be returned in onActivityResult() when the activity exits, as described in startActivityForResult(Intent, int).
Returns
boolean If a new activity was launched then true is returned; otherwise false is returned and you must handle the Intent yourself.

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startIntentSender

Added in API level 5
void startIntentSender (IntentSender intent, 
                Intent fillInIntent, 
                int flagsMask, 
                int flagsValues, 
                int extraFlags)

Same as calling startIntentSender(IntentSender, Intent, int, int, int, Bundle) with no options.

Parameters
intent IntentSender: The IntentSender to launch.
fillInIntent Intent: If non-null, this will be provided as the intent parameter to sendIntent(Context, int, Intent, IntentSender.OnFinished, Handler).
flagsMask int: Intent flags in the original IntentSender that you would like to change.
flagsValues int: Desired values for any bits set in flagsMask
extraFlags int: Always set to 0.
Throws
IntentSender.SendIntentException

startIntentSender

Added in API level 16
void startIntentSender (IntentSender intent, 
                Intent fillInIntent, 
                int flagsMask, 
                int flagsValues, 
                int extraFlags, 
                Bundle options)

Like startActivity(Intent, Bundle), but taking a IntentSender to start; see startIntentSenderForResult(IntentSender, int, Intent, int, int, int, Bundle) for more information.

Parameters
intent IntentSender: The IntentSender to launch.
fillInIntent Intent: If non-null, this will be provided as the intent parameter to sendIntent(Context, int, Intent, IntentSender.OnFinished, Handler).
flagsMask int: Intent flags in the original IntentSender that you would like to change.
flagsValues int: Desired values for any bits set in flagsMask
extraFlags int: Always set to 0.
options Bundle: Additional options for how the Activity should be started. See Context.startActivity(Intent, Bundle) for more details. If options have also been supplied by the IntentSender, options given here will override any that conflict with those given by the IntentSender.
Throws
IntentSender.SendIntentException

startIntentSenderForResult

Added in API level 5
void startIntentSenderForResult (IntentSender intent, 
                int requestCode, 
                Intent fillInIntent, 
                int flagsMask, 
                int flagsValues, 
                int extraFlags)

Same as calling startIntentSenderForResult(IntentSender, int, Intent, int, int, int, Bundle) with no options.

Parameters
intent IntentSender: The IntentSender to launch.
requestCode int: If >= 0, this code will be returned in onActivityResult() when the activity exits.
fillInIntent Intent: If non-null, this will be provided as the intent parameter to sendIntent(Context, int, Intent, IntentSender.OnFinished, Handler).
flagsMask int: Intent flags in the original IntentSender that you would like to change.
flagsValues int: Desired values for any bits set in flagsMask
extraFlags int: Always set to 0.
Throws
IntentSender.SendIntentException

startIntentSenderForResult

Added in API level 16
void startIntentSenderForResult (IntentSender intent, 
                int requestCode, 
                Intent fillInIntent, 
                int flagsMask, 
                int flagsValues, 
                int extraFlags, 
                Bundle options)

Like startActivityForResult(Intent, int), but allowing you to use a IntentSender to describe the activity to be started. If the IntentSender is for an activity, that activity will be started as if you had called the regular startActivityForResult(Intent, int) here; otherwise, its associated action will be executed (such as sending a broadcast) as if you had called IntentSender.sendIntent on it.

Parameters
intent IntentSender: The IntentSender to launch.
requestCode int: If >= 0, this code will be returned in onActivityResult() when the activity exits.
fillInIntent Intent: If non-null, this will be provided as the intent parameter to sendIntent(Context, int, Intent, IntentSender.OnFinished, Handler).
flagsMask int: Intent flags in the original IntentSender that you would like to change.
flagsValues int: Desired values for any bits set in flagsMask
extraFlags int: Always set to 0.
options Bundle: Additional options for how the Activity should be started. See Context.startActivity(Intent, Bundle) for more details. If options have also been supplied by the IntentSender, options given here will override any that conflict with those given by the IntentSender.
Throws
IntentSender.SendIntentException

startIntentSenderFromChild

Added in API level 16
void startIntentSenderFromChild (Activity child, 
                IntentSender intent, 
                int requestCode, 
                Intent fillInIntent, 
                int flagsMask, 
                int flagsValues, 
                int extraFlags, 
                Bundle options)

Like startActivityFromChild(Activity, Intent, int), but taking a IntentSender; see startIntentSenderForResult(IntentSender, int, Intent, int, int, int) for more information.

Parameters
child Activity
intent IntentSender
requestCode int
fillInIntent Intent
flagsMask int
flagsValues int
extraFlags int
options Bundle
Throws
IntentSender.SendIntentException

startIntentSenderFromChild

Added in API level 5
void startIntentSenderFromChild (Activity child, 
                IntentSender intent, 
                int requestCode, 
                Intent fillInIntent, 
                int flagsMask, 
                int flagsValues, 
                int extraFlags)

Same as calling startIntentSenderFromChild(Activity, IntentSender, int, Intent, int, int, int, Bundle) with no options.

Parameters
child Activity
intent IntentSender
requestCode int
fillInIntent Intent
flagsMask int
flagsValues int
extraFlags int
Throws
IntentSender.SendIntentException

startLocalVoiceInteraction

Added in API level 24
void startLocalVoiceInteraction (Bundle privateOptions)

Starts a local voice interaction session. When ready, onLocalVoiceInteractionStarted() is called. You can pass a bundle of private options to the registered voice interaction service.

Parameters
privateOptions Bundle: a Bundle of private arguments to the current voice interaction service

startLockTask

Added in API level 21
void startLockTask ()

Request to put this Activity in a mode where the user is locked to the current task. This will prevent the user from launching other apps, going to settings, or reaching the home screen. This does not include those apps whose lockTaskMode values permit launching while locked. If isLockTaskPermitted(String) returns true or lockTaskMode=lockTaskModeAlways for this component then the app will go directly into Lock Task mode. The user will not be able to exit this mode until stopLockTask() is called. If isLockTaskPermitted(String) returns false then the system will prompt the user with a dialog requesting permission to enter this mode. When entered through this method the user can exit at any time through an action described by the request dialog. Calling stopLockTask will also exit the mode.

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startManagingCursor

Added in API level 1
void startManagingCursor (Cursor c)

This method was deprecated in API level 11.
Use the new CursorLoader class with LoaderManager instead; this is also available on older platforms through the Android compatibility package.

This method allows the activity to take care of managing the given Cursor's lifecycle for you based on the activity's lifecycle. That is, when the activity is stopped it will automatically call deactivate() on the given Cursor, and when it is later restarted it will call requery() for you. When the activity is destroyed, all managed Cursors will be closed automatically. If you are targeting HONEYCOMB or later, consider instead using LoaderManager instead, available via getLoaderManager().

Warning: Do not call close() on cursor obtained from managedQuery(Uri, String[], String, String[], String), because the activity will do that for you at the appropriate time. However, if you call stopManagingCursor(Cursor) on a cursor from a managed query, the system will not automatically close the cursor and, in that case, you must call close().

Parameters
c Cursor: The Cursor to be managed.

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startNextMatchingActivity

Added in API level 16
boolean startNextMatchingActivity (Intent intent, 
                Bundle options)

Special version of starting an activity, for use when you are replacing other activity components. You can use this to hand the Intent off to the next Activity that can handle it. You typically call this in onCreate(Bundle) with the Intent returned by getIntent().

Parameters
intent Intent: The intent to dispatch to the next activity. For correct behavior, this must be the same as the Intent that started your own activity; the only changes you can make are to the extras inside of it.
options Bundle: Additional options for how the Activity should be started. See Context.startActivity(Intent, Bundle) for more details.
Returns
boolean Returns a boolean indicating whether there was another Activity to start: true if there was a next activity to start, false if there wasn't. In general, if true is returned you will then want to call finish() on yourself.

startNextMatchingActivity

Added in API level 1
boolean startNextMatchingActivity (Intent intent)

Same as calling startNextMatchingActivity(Intent, Bundle) with no options.

Parameters
intent Intent: The intent to dispatch to the next activity. For correct behavior, this must be the same as the Intent that started your own activity; the only changes you can make are to the extras inside of it.
Returns
boolean Returns a boolean indicating whether there was another Activity to start: true if there was a next activity to start, false if there wasn't. In general, if true is returned you will then want to call finish() on yourself.

startPostponedEnterTransition

Added in API level 21
void startPostponedEnterTransition ()

Begin postponed transitions after postponeEnterTransition() was called. If postponeEnterTransition() was called, you must call startPostponedEnterTransition() to have your Activity start drawing.

startSearch

Added in API level 1
void startSearch (String initialQuery, 
                boolean selectInitialQuery, 
                Bundle appSearchData, 
                boolean globalSearch)

This hook is called to launch the search UI.

It is typically called from onSearchRequested(), either directly from Activity.onSearchRequested() or from an overridden version in any given Activity. If your goal is simply to activate search, it is preferred to call onSearchRequested(), which may have been overridden elsewhere in your Activity. If your goal is to inject specific data such as context data, it is preferred to override onSearchRequested(), so that any callers to it will benefit from the override.

Parameters
initialQuery String: Any non-null non-empty string will be inserted as pre-entered text in the search query box.
selectInitialQuery boolean: If true, the initial query will be preselected, which means that any further typing will replace it. This is useful for cases where an entire pre-formed query is being inserted. If false, the selection point will be placed at the end of the inserted query. This is useful when the inserted query is text that the user entered, and the user would expect to be able to keep typing. This parameter is only meaningful if initialQuery is a non-empty string.
appSearchData Bundle: An application can insert application-specific context here, in order to improve quality or specificity of its own searches. This data will be returned with SEARCH intent(s). Null if no extra data is required.
globalSearch boolean: If false, this will only launch the search that has been specifically defined by the application (which is usually defined as a local search). If no default search is defined in the current application or activity, global search will be launched. If true, this will always launch a platform-global (e.g. web-based) search instead.

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stopLocalVoiceInteraction

Added in API level 24
void stopLocalVoiceInteraction ()

Request to terminate the current voice interaction that was previously started using startLocalVoiceInteraction(Bundle). When the interaction is terminated, onLocalVoiceInteractionStopped() will be called.

stopLockTask

Added in API level 21
void stopLockTask ()

Allow the user to switch away from the current task. Called to end the mode started by startLockTask(). This can only be called by activities that have successfully called startLockTask previously. This will allow the user to exit this app and move onto other activities.

Note: This method should only be called when the activity is user-facing. That is, between onResume() and onPause().

Note: If there are other tasks below this one that are also locked then calling this method will immediately finish this task and resume the previous locked one, remaining in lockTask mode.

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stopManagingCursor

Added in API level 1
void stopManagingCursor (Cursor c)

This method was deprecated in API level 11.
Use the new CursorLoader class with LoaderManager instead; this is also available on older platforms through the Android compatibility package.

Given a Cursor that was previously given to startManagingCursor(Cursor), stop the activity's management of that cursor.

Warning: After calling this method on a cursor from a managed query, the system will not automatically close the cursor and you must call close().

Parameters
c Cursor: The Cursor that was being managed.

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takeKeyEvents

Added in API level 1
void takeKeyEvents (boolean get)

Request that key events come to this activity. Use this if your activity has no views with focus, but the activity still wants a chance to process key events.

Parameters
get boolean

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triggerSearch

Added in API level 5
void triggerSearch (String query, 
                Bundle appSearchData)

Similar to startSearch(String, boolean, Bundle, boolean), but actually fires off the search query after invoking the search dialog. Made available for testing purposes.

Parameters
query String: The query to trigger. If empty, the request will be ignored.
appSearchData Bundle: An application can insert application-specific context here, in order to improve quality or specificity of its own searches. This data will be returned with SEARCH intent(s). Null if no extra data is required.

unregisterForContextMenu

Added in API level 1
void unregisterForContextMenu (View view)

Prevents a context menu to be shown for the given view. This method will remove the View.OnCreateContextMenuListener on the view.

Parameters
view View: The view that should stop showing a context menu.

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Protected methods

onActivityResult

Added in API level 1
void onActivityResult (int requestCode, 
                int resultCode, 
                Intent data)

Called when an activity you launched exits, giving you the requestCode you started it with, the resultCode it returned, and any additional data from it. The resultCode will be RESULT_CANCELED if the activity explicitly returned that, didn't return any result, or crashed during its operation.

You will receive this call immediately before onResume() when your activity is re-starting.

This method is never invoked if your activity sets noHistory to true.

Parameters
requestCode int: The integer request code originally supplied to startActivityForResult(), allowing you to identify who this result came from.
resultCode int: The integer result code returned by the child activity through its setResult().
data Intent: An Intent, which can return result data to the caller (various data can be attached to Intent "extras").

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onApplyThemeResource

Added in API level 1
void onApplyThemeResource (Resources.Theme theme, 
                int resid, 
                boolean first)

Called by setTheme(int) and getTheme() to apply a theme resource to the current Theme object. May be overridden to change the default (simple) behavior. This method will not be called in multiple threads simultaneously.

Parameters
theme Resources.Theme: the theme being modified
resid int: the style resource being applied to theme
first boolean: true if this is the first time a style is being applied to theme

onChildTitleChanged

Added in API level 1
void onChildTitleChanged (Activity childActivity, 
                CharSequence title)

Parameters
childActivity Activity
title CharSequence

onCreate

Added in API level 1
void onCreate (Bundle savedInstanceState)

Called when the activity is starting. This is where most initialization should go: calling setContentView(int) to inflate the activity's UI, using findViewById(int) to programmatically interact with widgets in the UI, calling managedQuery(android.net.Uri, String[], String, String[], String) to retrieve cursors for data being displayed, etc.

You can call finish() from within this function, in which case onDestroy() will be immediately called without any of the rest of the activity lifecycle (onStart(), onResume(), onPause(), etc) executing.

Derived classes must call through to the super class's implementation of this method. If they do not, an exception will be thrown.

Parameters
savedInstanceState Bundle: If the activity is being re-initialized after previously being shut down then this Bundle contains the data it most recently supplied in onSaveInstanceState(Bundle). Note: Otherwise it is null.

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onCreateDialog

Added in API level 1
Dialog onCreateDialog (int id)

This method was deprecated in API level 8.
Old no-arguments version of onCreateDialog(int, Bundle).

Parameters
id int
Returns
Dialog

onCreateDialog

Added in API level 8
Dialog onCreateDialog (int id, 
                Bundle args)

This method was deprecated in API level 13.
Use the new DialogFragment class with FragmentManager instead; this is also available on older platforms through the Android compatibility package.

Callback for creating dialogs that are managed (saved and restored) for you by the activity. The default implementation calls through to onCreateDialog(int) for compatibility. If you are targeting HONEYCOMB or later, consider instead using a DialogFragment instead.

If you use showDialog(int), the activity will call through to this method the first time, and hang onto it thereafter. Any dialog that is created by this method will automatically be saved and restored for you, including whether it is showing.

If you would like the activity to manage saving and restoring dialogs for you, you should override this method and handle any ids that are passed to showDialog(int).

If you would like an opportunity to prepare your dialog before it is shown, override onPrepareDialog(int, Dialog, Bundle).

Parameters
id int: The id of the dialog.
args Bundle: The dialog arguments provided to showDialog(int, Bundle).
Returns
Dialog The dialog. If you return null, the dialog will not be created.

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onDestroy

Added in API level 1
void onDestroy ()

Perform any final cleanup before an activity is destroyed. This can happen either because the activity is finishing (someone called finish() on it, or because the system is temporarily destroying this instance of the activity to save space. You can distinguish between these two scenarios with the isFinishing() method.

Note: do not count on this method being called as a place for saving data! For example, if an activity is editing data in a content provider, those edits should be committed in either onPause() or onSaveInstanceState(Bundle), not here. This method is usually implemented to free resources like threads that are associated with an activity, so that a destroyed activity does not leave such things around while the rest of its application is still running. There are situations where the system will simply kill the activity's hosting process without calling this method (or any others) in it, so it should not be used to do things that are intended to remain around after the process goes away.

Derived classes must call through to the super class's implementation of this method. If they do not, an exception will be thrown.

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onNewIntent

Added in API level 1
void onNewIntent (Intent intent)

This is called for activities that set launchMode to "singleTop" in their package, or if a client used the FLAG_ACTIVITY_SINGLE_TOP flag when calling startActivity(Intent). In either case, when the activity is re-launched while at the top of the activity stack instead of a new instance of the activity being started, onNewIntent() will be called on the existing instance with the Intent that was used to re-launch it.

An activity will always be paused before receiving a new intent, so you can count on onResume() being called after this method.

Note that getIntent() still returns the original Intent. You can use setIntent(Intent) to update it to this new Intent.

Parameters
intent Intent: The new intent that was started for the activity.

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onPause

Added in API level 1
void onPause ()

Called as part of the activity lifecycle when an activity is going into the background, but has not (yet) been killed. The counterpart to onResume().

When activity B is launched in front of activity A, this callback will be invoked on A. B will not be created until A's onPause() returns, so be sure to not do anything lengthy here.

This callback is mostly used for saving any persistent state the activity is editing, to present a "edit in place" model to the user and making sure nothing is lost if there are not enough resources to start the new activity without first killing this one. This is also a good place to do things like stop animations and other things that consume a noticeable amount of CPU in order to make the switch to the next activity as fast as possible, or to close resources that are exclusive access such as the camera.

In situations where the system needs more memory it may kill paused processes to reclaim resources. Because of this, you should be sure that all of your state is saved by the time you return from this function. In general onSaveInstanceState(Bundle) is used to save per-instance state in the activity and this method is used to store global persistent data (in content providers, files, etc.)

After receiving this call you will usually receive a following call to onStop() (after the next activity has been resumed and displayed), however in some cases there will be a direct call back to onResume() without going through the stopped state.

Derived classes must call through to the super class's implementation of this method. If they do not, an exception will be thrown.

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onPostCreate

Added in API level 1
void onPostCreate (Bundle savedInstanceState)

Called when activity start-up is complete (after onStart() and onRestoreInstanceState(Bundle) have been called). Applications will generally not implement this method; it is intended for system classes to do final initialization after application code has run.

Derived classes must call through to the super class's implementation of this method. If they do not, an exception will be thrown.

Parameters
savedInstanceState Bundle: If the activity is being re-initialized after previously being shut down then this Bundle contains the data it most recently supplied in onSaveInstanceState(Bundle). Note: Otherwise it is null.

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onPostResume

Added in API level 1
void onPostResume ()

Called when activity resume is complete (after onResume() has been called). Applications will generally not implement this method; it is intended for system classes to do final setup after application resume code has run.

Derived classes must call through to the super class's implementation of this method. If they do not, an exception will be thrown.

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onPrepareDialog

Added in API level 8
void onPrepareDialog (int id, 
                Dialog dialog, 
                Bundle args)

This method was deprecated in API level 13.
Use the new DialogFragment class with FragmentManager instead; this is also available on older platforms through the Android compatibility package.

Provides an opportunity to prepare a managed dialog before it is being shown. The default implementation calls through to onPrepareDialog(int, Dialog) for compatibility.

Override this if you need to update a managed dialog based on the state of the application each time it is shown. For example, a time picker dialog might want to be updated with the current time. You should call through to the superclass's implementation. The default implementation will set this Activity as the owner activity on the Dialog.

Parameters
id int: The id of the managed dialog.
dialog Dialog: The dialog.
args Bundle: The dialog arguments provided to showDialog(int, Bundle).

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onPrepareDialog

Added in API level 1
void onPrepareDialog (int id, 
                Dialog dialog)

This method was deprecated in API level 8.
Old no-arguments version of onPrepareDialog(int, Dialog, Bundle).

Parameters
id int
dialog Dialog

onRestart

Added in API level 1
void onRestart ()

Called after onStop() when the current activity is being re-displayed to the user (the user has navigated back to it). It will be followed by onStart() and then onResume().

For activities that are using raw Cursor objects (instead of creating them through managedQuery(android.net.Uri, String[], String, String[], String), this is usually the place where the cursor should be requeried (because you had deactivated it in onStop().

Derived classes must call through to the super class's implementation of this method. If they do not, an exception will be thrown.

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onRestoreInstanceState

Added in API level 1
void onRestoreInstanceState (Bundle savedInstanceState)

This method is called after onStart() when the activity is being re-initialized from a previously saved state, given here in savedInstanceState. Most implementations will simply use onCreate(Bundle) to restore their state, but it is sometimes convenient to do it here after all of the initialization has been done or to allow subclasses to decide whether to use your default implementation. The default implementation of this method performs a restore of any view state that had previously been frozen by onSaveInstanceState(Bundle).

This method is called between onStart() and onPostCreate(Bundle).

Parameters
savedInstanceState Bundle: the data most recently supplied in onSaveInstanceState(Bundle).

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onResume

Added in API level 1
void onResume ()

Called after onRestoreInstanceState(Bundle), onRestart(), or onPause(), for your activity to start interacting with the user. This is a good place to begin animations, open exclusive-access devices (such as the camera), etc.

Keep in mind that onResume is not the best indicator that your activity is visible to the user; a system window such as the keyguard may be in front. Use onWindowFocusChanged(boolean) to know for certain that your activity is visible to the user (for example, to resume a game).

Derived classes must call through to the super class's implementation of this method. If they do not, an exception will be thrown.

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onSaveInstanceState

Added in API level 1
void onSaveInstanceState (Bundle outState)

Called to retrieve per-instance state from an activity before being killed so that the state can be restored in onCreate(Bundle) or onRestoreInstanceState(Bundle) (the Bundle populated by this method will be passed to both).

This method is called before an activity may be killed so that when it comes back some time in the future it can restore its state. For example, if activity B is launched in front of activity A, and at some point activity A is killed to reclaim resources, activity A will have a chance to save the current state of its user interface via this method so that when the user returns to activity A, the state of the user interface can be restored via onCreate(Bundle) or onRestoreInstanceState(Bundle).

Do not confuse this method with activity lifecycle callbacks such as onPause(), which is always called when an activity is being placed in the background or on its way to destruction, or onStop() which is called before destruction. One example of when onPause() and onStop() is called and not this method is when a user navigates back from activity B to activity A: there is no need to call onSaveInstanceState(Bundle) on B because that particular instance will never be restored, so the system avoids calling it. An example when onPause() is called and not onSaveInstanceState(Bundle) is when activity B is launched in front of activity A: the system may avoid calling onSaveInstanceState(Bundle) on activity A if it isn't killed during the lifetime of B since the state of the user interface of A will stay intact.

The default implementation takes care of most of the UI per-instance state for you by calling onSaveInstanceState() on each view in the hierarchy that has an id, and by saving the id of the currently focused view (all of which is restored by the default implementation of onRestoreInstanceState(Bundle)). If you override this method to save additional information not captured by each individual view, you will likely want to call through to the default implementation, otherwise be prepared to save all of the state of each view yourself.

If called, this method will occur before onStop(). There are no guarantees about whether it will occur before or after onPause().

Parameters
outState Bundle: Bundle in which to place your saved state.

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onStart

Added in API level 1
void onStart ()

Called after onCreate(Bundle) — or after onRestart() when the activity had been stopped, but is now again being displayed to the user. It will be followed by onResume().

Derived classes must call through to the super class's implementation of this method. If they do not, an exception will be thrown.

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onStop

Added in API level 1
void onStop ()

Called when you are no longer visible to the user. You will next receive either onRestart(), onDestroy(), or nothing, depending on later user activity.

Derived classes must call through to the super class's implementation of this method. If they do not, an exception will be thrown.

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onTitleChanged

Added in API level 1
void onTitleChanged (CharSequence title, 
                int color)

Parameters
title CharSequence
color int

onUserLeaveHint

Added in API level 3
void onUserLeaveHint ()

Called as part of the activity lifecycle when an activity is about to go into the background as the result of user choice. For example, when the user presses the Home key, onUserLeaveHint() will be called, but when an incoming phone call causes the in-call Activity to be automatically brought to the foreground, onUserLeaveHint() will not be called on the activity being interrupted. In cases when it is invoked, this method is called right before the activity's onPause() callback.

This callback and onUserInteraction() are intended to help activities manage status bar notifications intelligently; specifically, for helping activities determine the proper time to cancel a notfication.

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