[android-developers] [SOLVED] startActivityForResult does not return control to calling Activity

hello,

i found the source of my troubles - it was to do with the manifest
setting. i had set the "android:noHistory" attribute to true for the
tab activity from which i launched the other activity.

lesson learnt :]

On Jun 6, 1:25 am, Anirvan <anirvan.majum...@gmail.com> wrote:
> i have a tab layout. in one of the Activity's corresponding to a tab,
> i use "startActivityForResult" to launch another activity to do
> something. Once the tasks in the new activity are done, i invoke the
> "finish()" method to return to the tab Activity which launched it.
>
> strangely enough, when the new activity is finished, instead of
> showing the tab activity which launched it, the entire app simply
> exits. in the tab activity class i've overriden the "onActivityResult"
> method, and have a log statement right at the start. This log
> statement does not get printed.
>
> so the gist of the problem is that when i launch an activity for
> result, and then finish it, the control does not return back to the
> activity which launched the other one - instead the app exits.
>
> is there some elementary mistake that i'm making here?
> thanks for your time.

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