Why is getCallingActivity always returning null?

Question

I have a welcome screen that can be started as the first activity in my app, or it can be started by the main activity that the user spends their time in. I want it to act s

Answer 1

it's possible your calling activity is finishing sooner than you're expecting it to. this happened to me and resulted in a null return from getCallingActivity, even though the calling activity was using startActivityForResult