Android Activity Stack is not working as stated in the docs - last activity in task stack not shown

Question

According to Android docs:

http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/fundamentals/tasks-and-back-stack.html

\"When the user leaves a task by pressing the Hom

Answer 1

This is a bug in android's platform:

http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=2373

The workaround is, to place this in the onCreate method of your main Activity:

if (!isTaskRoot())
{
    final Intent intent = getIntent();
    final String intentAction = intent.getAction(); 
    if (intent.hasCategory(Intent.CATEGORY_LAUNCHER) && intentAction != null && intentAction.equals(Intent.ACTION_MAIN))
    {
        Log.w(LOG_TAG, "Main Activity is not the root.  Finishing Main Activity instead of launching.");
        finish();
        return;       
    }
}

as extracted from:

How to prevent multiple instances of an activity when it is launched with different intents

...spent 3 days looking out for this.