App completely restarting when launched by icon press in launcher

Question

I\'m in the process of trying to make a release build of my first android app to send to a few testers. However, I ran into a problem with it. When you exit the app and then

Answer 1

It is the default behavior in Android. For the debug builds it works differently for some reason. It can be solved by adding android:launchMode="singleInstance" to the activity, you want to restart after you launch from the icon.