Ways to bring an Android app in background to foreground

Question

Here is the scenario:

AndroidManifest.xml defines a single Activity with android:launchMode=\"singleTask\". (This means there should be a single activit

Answer 1

In MyMainActivity definition (AndroidManifest.xml):

Programmatically bringing application to foreground:

Intent it = new Intent("intent.my.action");
it.setComponent(new ComponentName(context.getPackageName(), MyMainActivity.class.getName()));
it.setFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK);
context.getApplicationContext().startActivity(it);

Note: context.startActivity(it) would NOT work when the context object is same as the activity one wants to bring up.