How an activity is created
24 Nov 2013
Interfaces
+-------------------------------+
| IBinder |
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| +- +transact() |
| +- +onTransact() |
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+-------------------------------+
+-------------------------------+
| IActivityManager |
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| +- +startActivity() |
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+-------------------------------+
code flow
To achieve this, I have spent a whole day in VIM, :).
// We start from here
Activity
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+- startActivity()
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+- startActivityForResult()
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+- mInstrumentation.execStartActivity
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Instrumentation |
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+- execStartActivity() <------+
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| +- ActivityManagerNative.getDefault().startActivity(); ---+
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+- newActivity() | |
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| | +-------------------------+ | |
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| +->| Activity.newInstance() | | |
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| +-------------------------+ | |
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+- callActivityOnCreate() | |
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| +--------------------------+ | |
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+->| Activity.performCreate() | | |
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+------------------------- + | |
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+----|> IBinder, IActivityManager | |
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ActivityManagerNative | |
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| +- -gDefault | |
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| +- +getDefault(): <---------+ |
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| | gDefault.get() |
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| | +-------+--------------------------------------------+ |
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| | | ActivityManagerProxy ------- |> IActivityManager | |
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| | | +- -mRemote: ActivityManagerService | |
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| | | +- +startActivity() <---------------------- | -+
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| | | + mRemote.transact() |
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| | +--------------------------- | ----------------------+
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| | +--------------------------+
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| | v
| +- +transact() --------------------------+
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| +- +onTransact() <-----------------+ |
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| +- call: startActivity()----|-----|-----+
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ActivityManagerService | | |
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+- -mMainStack:ActivityStack | | |
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+- +onTransact() <-----------------------+ |
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| +- super::onTransact()------+ |
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+- +startActivity() <--------------------------+
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| +- startActivityAsUser()
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| +- mMainStack.startActivityMayWait()
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+- +startProcessLocked() <----------------|---------------------+
| ProcessRecord app; | |
| Process.start( | |
| "android.app.ActivityThread", | |
| app.processName, ... --------------|-------------+ |
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+- attachApplication <------------------------|-------------|-------|---------+
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+- attachApplicationLocked() | | | |
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+- mMainStack.realStartActivityLocked(); -----------------------------+ |
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ActivityStack | | | | |
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|- startActivityMayWait() <-------------------------+ | | | |
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| +- startActivityLocked(IApplicationThread caller, ... | | | |
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| +- startActivityUncheckedLocked | | | |
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| +- startActivityLocked(ActivityRecord r,... | | | |
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| +- resumeTopActivityLocked | | | |
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| +- mService.startProcessLocked: finnaly call this function. | |
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+- realStartActivityLocked() <--------------------------------------------------+ |
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+ call: ActivityThread::scheduleLaunchActivity() -----------------------+ |
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Process <- android.os | | |
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+- start() <-----------------------------------------------------+ | |
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+- startViaZygote() | |
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+- zygoteSendArgsAndGetResult() <---+ | |
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ActivityThread | | |
| Socket, Unix domain TCP | | |
+- main() <------------------------------+ | |
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| +- attach() | |
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| +- ActivityManagerNative.getDefault().attachApplication() | |
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| ... a lot of call stacks | |
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| + ActivityManagerService::attachApplication() ---------------|-------+
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+- scheduleLaunchActivity() <--------------------------------------------- +
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| +- queueOrSendMessage(H.LAUNCH_ACTIVITY, r);
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+- -H -> Handler
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| + handleMessage() --------+
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+- handleLaunchActivity() <----------+
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+- performLaunchActivity()
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+- mInstrumentation.newActivity()
+- mInstrumentation.callActivityOnCreate()
Finally
When we call startActivity(), ActivityManagerProxy will communicate with Zyogte by Unix domain TCP.
Zyogte will invoke ActivityThread to process the request.
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