Is there any reason not to call setIntent when overriding onNewIntent?

Question

While experiencing a problem similar to this question, I began to wonder why we explicitly have to call setIntent when overriding onNewIntent, and

Answer 1

The docs for onNewIntent state: "Note that getIntent() still returns the original Intent. You can use setIntent(Intent) to update it to this new Intent." My guess is that onNewIntent exists so that your activity can be notified and the super probably does nothing.