Running Multiple Activities simultaneously

[chander shivdasani]

Hi,

I have developed a simple android application, which when started opens a Timer. User is given two buttons, start/ pause. This is working fine.
What i want to do is to add a way to support multiple timers when a user swipes his finger on the screen.
When he swipes from left to right, a new timer should show up, but the previous timer should not stop. This is a way to add multiple timers.
Also, when he swipes from right to left, i want a previous timer to show.

This is what i have done so for. I have a timer activity. I have added a touch event on it. When, a person swipes his finger, i get the co-ordinates and decide whether its from left to right or right to left. This funtionality is working fine, as i can see the appropriate log messages.

The problem is when im trying to load Timer Activity. It just loads the previous Activity and doesnt really create a new one (I figured this from the timer). Is there any way to do it?

[Jeremy Medford]

Hi,

I'm not an expert in Anrdroid, but I had a couple of thoughts on this.
Why do the Timers need to be separaate Activities? I believe that when you go to a new Activity, the onStop() method is called which essentially halts whatever is happening in that Activity.

What about trying separate Views where each new timer is inside a custom view? Perhaps even part of a List?

Just some ideas.

Regards,
Jeremy