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Android: how to determine cold start

When app being launched, how to determine it is cold start or not? By cold start, I mean the app launched from the very beginning, instead of just resumed from a previous state.

:Edit: elaborate my question: I'm trying to find the app's launch mode: cold start or warm start. Cold start means the app is never launched before or not in background, so it needs a complete launch. Warm start means it is still in background, so it can resume and start faster. How to distinguish these two start modes programmatically?

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Jason Yu Avatar asked Aug 22 '13 16:08

Jason Yu


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If the app is still running in the background it will call onResume first and not onCreate at all.

If you mean the first time it was ever launched on a device then use sqlite or shared preferences to store data and at the beginning check to see if its there.

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DisibioAaron Avatar answered Oct 15 '22 18:10

DisibioAaron