I got an app with tabs and a notification bar entry, when I send it to background (click on home button) and try to re-open the application via click on the notification ba
Are you implementing the onSaveInstanceState methods as recommended in the lifecycle documentation?
Its possible that when you pause an application and go back to it immediately, that the application is still hanging out in memory in the background. However, you can't depend on this, so you should save state like the currently open tab everytime you go into the background, and restore it when you get reactivated.