Re-launch of Activity on Home button, but…only the first time

Question

The application that I am developing has a weird behavior the first time that it is installed. If the user backs out of the application normally the first time, it will fore

Answer 1

Why this is behaving, no clue. But I know that custom Launcher have specific launchModes set.

For example the ADW.Launcher:

android:clearTaskOnLaunch="true"
android:launchMode="singleTask" 

Home application in the Android SDK samples: android-sdk\samples\android-16\Home\AndroidManifest.xml

android:launchMode="singleInstance"

To quote CommonsWare: How to prevent custom home launcher app restart activity?

I am going by the Home sample application from the SDK, which uses singleInstance. Curiously, the AOSP launchers use singleTask