Tasks, Back Stack & Launch Modes - Android Basics 2023

Can you please explain this practically in android studio?

Your videos giving me so much confidence in android, Thank you so much for these kind of content

Does this mean there are two back stacks, one within the app and one higher level one for the Tasks or do they all live on the same back stack?

I'm not sure if I could understand them very well the differences. I will try to create a demo app to make sure I understand it.

Please do content in 4k not in 1080p, your work deserves the best quality.

Launch modes would not make sense to someone who has not yet experienced it.

But for people like me who have had problems, Googled then copied a code snippet from StackOverflow and it solved my problem.

Philip just helped me get an insight of why the code snippet worked.
Thanks

Clear explanation!

Great playlist !!!

@Philipp Lackner, Everything is perfect except small correction in Single Task scenario . Please check again. With in same task every instance will check with the backstack, If it presents it will reuse otherwise will create new instance. If A->B->C->D instances are there and again B came then stack will be A->B. it will remove C,D instances and reuses instance of B in stack. If it is separate task then your scenario is correct.

Many thanks for explaining it the new way.

thanks philipp, appreciate ya

Browser Activity mentioned in video on primary Task, is actually the chrome app's backstack, correct ?
and later when someone tries to open link from instagram then diff launch mode decides if to use already existing chrome's task/activity or create new chrome's task/activity based on the launch modes

Please correct me if there is any wrong interpretation in understanding !!

can you please make a video on imagecropping in jetpack compose

can one app have different tasks or is one app = one task?

Re: instanced activities... Is that why when i open a Twitter link from my browser, and it opens the Twitter link in the Twitter app, i can never navigate to the Twitter homepage from within the app? The back button takes me back to the browser, but so does the "back" (up?) button at the top-left of the UI (which i would expect to take me "back" from within the Twitter app). I always find this so frustrating and figured it was lousy programming, but you've said here that instanced apps can't load other activities 🤯

This was confusing, didn't understand throughly

Great Video

Hey Philip, you missed the Intent flags which correspond to these launch modes. Also, the SingleTask launch mode has some other behaviour too which you missed.

Really nice explanations, would be even better if you show some example code along with it!

Would like to see a related video on multiple back stacks and navigation views (particularly bottom). In theory, each nav item has its own back stack, and yo can move between them. But the click on the nav does not pop to starting position (it used to an old navigation lib).

It is better if you can create a playlist about jet pack navigations library..it's so poorly documented and very difficult to master specially when used with multi modular architecture

Hi Philipp
Please can we get more full app walkthrough videos.
I personally learn a lot from those

Another excellent video, i just began learning android coming from flutter (ik ik) and your previous basics playlist was in 2020, so i was worried but this new playlist finishes off those doubts. Thanks a lot.

beta kuch aur content lao ak hi chij ko bar bar kitna dikhaoge. from india translate these words to hindi ok bye

Really appreciate what you are doing. There are n number of resources for MERN,but that's not the case for Android. 🫡

Keep it up Philip,
you're great