Android app restarts when opened by clicking app icon

Question

Scenario :

I open my app by clicking icon, do something, navigate through activities, pause the app by clicking home button.

Case 1:

If I open my app by clicking icon again, the app restarts from the first activity.

Case 2:

If I open my app from recently open apps (in 4.0 by pressing menu button and selecting my app) it starts from the paused state.

I want the behavior 2 always to occur, don't want my app to restart every time when it is opened by clicking icon.

I have compared my manifest file with other apps and they are similar to mine, but behave differently (i.e like 2nd case which i want).

Edit:

This has been asked here : App completely restarting when launched by icon press in launcher

but no answers :(

Answer 1

I found it. I had set a flag android:launchMode="singleTask" in my activity flag. I deleted that code.

I also added onsaveInstance method to all the activities in my code and it's working now!

Thanks :)