What exactly is the attribute taskAffinity used for? I have gone through the documentation but I couldn't understand much. Can anyone explain task affinity in laymans terms?

Let assume we have two activities. A - main activity, that is "home launcher enabled" (proper intent filters etc.) B - task root activity with singleTask specification (there can be only one instan...

I developed a simple application, which demostrates some strange behaviour on Android 4.4.X devices I noticed. Lets say I want to have 2 "main" activities, where the first says "Hello" (by startin...

I want to set the cpu affinity of a process on linux when it is starting. There are methods like sched_setaffinity and taskset, but they need the processid of the process. They may cause potential...

How does android:taskaffinity attribute work? As per my understanding, pressing the Home key will move the activity to back stack, but it will not be destroyed. I am confused.