During the last three months I have been working as a developer for a consulting android project. It is actually my first commercial experience (I do not count written demo examples at my previous work) and I found it extremely interesting, though a quite confusing at some moments.
The following article describes an observed problem with the facebook key hashes for the android application. To describe the problem and its solution, let’s define a simple use case.
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The following code snippet shows how to restart an android application after the specified delay programmatically:
public void restart(int delay) {
PendingIntent intent = PendingIntent.getActivity(this.getBaseContext(), 0, new Intent(getIntent()), getIntent().getFlags());
AlarmManager manager = (AlarmManager) this.getSystemService(Context.ALARM_SERVICE);
manager.set(AlarmManager.RTC, System.currentTimeMillis() + delay, intent);
System.exit(2);
}
Related API:
PendingIntent
AlarmManager
The following code snippet shows how to minimize the current application in android programmatically:
Intent main = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_MAIN);
main.addCategory(Intent.CATEGORY_HOME);
main.setFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK);
startActivity(main);
Related API:
Activity
