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I have an app that has two activities. The first one is presented with a single button that opens the second one. Here is the Manifiest definition for the first one: <activity android:name="com.example.buttonexample.MainActivity"> <intent-filter> <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" /> <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" /> </intent-filter> </activity> Second activity: <activity android:name="com.example.buttonexample.MainActivity2" android:label="@string/title_activity_main_activity2" android:theme="@android:style/Theme.Translucent"> </activity> Here is how I launch the second activity (via OnClickListener for a button on the first activity): public void startSecondActivityClick(View v) { Intent startActivity2 = new Intent(this, MainActivity2.class); startActivity(startActivity2); } This works fine, however when I background the app by hitting home and the foreground the app. I'm noticing that the first activity is continually creating/destroying itself. I verified this by putting some code in the onDestory method to increment a static int: private static int count = 0; @Override protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { super.onCreate(savedInstanceState); setContentView(R.layout.activity_main); count++; } protected void onDestroy() { super.onDestroy(); Log.i("MainActivity", String.format("Destroyed, %d", count)); } I've also noticed that removing the translucent theme seems to fix this. My question is is there a way to translucent or something similar but also have it not restart? Also, I'm curious why this happens at all. I'm testing this on 4.0.1 ICS on a galaxy SIII.

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