Chapter 24 More About Intents and Tasks
When you do this, new contact list activity and contact details instances will be created in the contact
application’s process. A new task will be created for the contacts application, and that task will
reference the new contact list and contact details activity instances (as shown in Figure 24.14).
Figure 24.14 Process referenced by multiple tasks
In this chapter, you created tasks and switched between them. What about replacing Android’s default
overview screen, as you are able to do with the Home screen? Unfortunately, Android does not provide
a way to do this. Also, you should know that apps advertised on the Google Play Store as “task killers”
are, in fact, process killers. Such apps kill a particular process, which means they may be killing
activities referenced by other applications’ tasks.