Why is my activity starting?

[Jeff Verdegan]

I'm having trouble understanding the inner machinations of some code I inherited.

The first time you run our app after install, a signup/signon activity runs, so you can create an account or provide credentials for an existing account. What I can't figure out is why it's running. I can see various places in the code where it's referenced, and that would kick it off, but I've got log statements and breakpoints at every one of them, and nothing is popping.

For instance, this activity is used by our Authenticator implementation, and our Application class does trigger it in response to certain Messages, but again, it doesn't look like any of that code is being executed by the time the activity appears.

The manifest just has:

        <activity
            android:name=".activity.setup.SignupOrSignonActivity"
            android:launchMode="singleTop"
            android:screenOrientation="portrait" 
            />

Any ideas where else I might look, or what else might kick off an activity?

[Jeff Verdegan]

Interesting.

I managed to get hold of the original developer, and he told me something I wasn't aware of.

The activity is used by our Authenticator, which I knew, and I figured it had to be the auth operation that was kicking it off, but I couldn't find any evidence of that. The authentication task to add a new account takes place in a separate process, which I didn't know, and which is why I wasn't seeing any evidence of the Authenticator coming into play. My breakpoints only applied to our main process, obviously, but I was also looking only at our app's log, not the device log (which was a blind spot on my part, even if I had no reason to suspect a separate process).

Live and learn!