Start new Activity outside the Activity context.

Question

I tried to start an Activity and close other in my AsyncTask class (onPostExecute()).

My code :

Intent i = new Intent(parentActivity, ThunderHunter.class);
c.startActivity(i);
parentActivity.finish();

But it doesn't work, logcat shows :

08-01 18:01:27.640: E/AndroidRuntime(12398): android.util.AndroidRuntimeException: Calling startActivity() from outside of an Activity  context requires the FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK flag. Is this really what you want?
08-01 18:01:27.640: E/AndroidRuntime(12398):    at android.app.ContextImpl.startActivity(ContextImpl.java:1029)
08-01 18:01:27.640: E/AndroidRuntime(12398):    at android.app.ContextImpl.startActivity(ContextImpl.java:1023)
08-01 18:01:27.640: E/AndroidRuntime(12398):    at android.content.ContextWrapper.startActivity(ContextWrapper.java:283)
08-01 18:01:27.640: E/AndroidRuntime(12398):    at com.radzik.thunter.FunkcjeAPI$Logowanie.onPostExecute(FunkcjeAPI.java:151)
08-01 18:01:27.640: E/AndroidRuntime(12398):    at com.radzik.thunter.FunkcjeAPI$Logowanie.onPostExecute(FunkcjeAPI.java:1)
08-01 18:01:27.640: E/AndroidRuntime(12398):    at android.os.AsyncTask.finish(AsyncTask.java:631)
08-01 18:01:27.640: E/AndroidRuntime(12398):    at android.os.AsyncTask.access$600(AsyncTask.java:177)
08-01 18:01:27.640: E/AndroidRuntime(12398):    at android.os.AsyncTask$InternalHandler.handleMessage(AsyncTask.java:644)
08-01 18:01:27.640: E/AndroidRuntime(12398):    at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)
08-01 18:01:27.640: E/AndroidRuntime(12398):    at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:137)
08-01 18:01:27.640: E/AndroidRuntime(12398):    at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:4898)
08-01 18:01:27.640: E/AndroidRuntime(12398):    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
08-01 18:01:27.640: E/AndroidRuntime(12398):    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:511)
08-01 18:01:27.640: E/AndroidRuntime(12398):    at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:1006)
08-01 18:01:27.640: E/AndroidRuntime(12398):    at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:773)
08-01 18:01:27.640: E/AndroidRuntime(12398):    at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)

So I changed code to that :

Intent i = new Intent(context, ThunderHunter.class);
c.startActivity(i);
parentActivity.finish();

But without excepted results (still same error).

Is there any way to that properly ?

Answer 1

The logcat tells you what the problem is in the first line

Calling startActivity() from outside of an Activity  context requires the FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK flag

add that flag

Intent i = new Intent(context, ThunderHunter.class);
i.setFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK);
c.startActivity(i);
parentActivity.finish();

You can get a list of all available Intent Flags here in the docs