android Activity启动过程-startActivity

1.startActivity说起:activity里的startActivity最终会走到IActivityManager的startActivity

Activity.java

  @Override    public void startActivity(Intent intent) {        startActivity(intent, null);    }

Activity.java

 @Override    public void startActivity(Intent intent, Bundle options) {        if (options != null) {            startActivityForResult(intent, -1, options);        } else {            // Note we want to go through this call for compatibility with            // applications that may have overridden the method.            startActivityForResult(intent, -1);        }    }

Activity.java

 public void startActivityForResult(Intent intent, int requestCode, Bundle options) {        if (mParent == null) {            Instrumentation.ActivityResult ar =                mInstrumentation.execStartActivity(                    this, mMainThread.getApplicationThread(), mToken, this,                    intent, requestCode, options);            if (ar != null) {                mMainThread.sendActivityResult(                    mToken, mEmbeddedID, requestCode, ar.getResultCode(),                    ar.getResultData());            }            if (requestCode >= 0) {                // If this start is requesting a result, we can avoid making                // the activity visible until the result is received.  Setting                // this code during onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) or onResume() will keep the                // activity hidden during this time, to avoid flickering.                // This can only be done when a result is requested because                // that guarantees we will get information back when the                // activity is finished, no matter what happens to it.                mStartedActivity = true;            }        } else {            if (options != null) {                mParent.startActivityFromChild(this, intent, requestCode, options);            } else {                // Note we want to go through this method for compatibility with                // existing applications that may have overridden it.                mParent.startActivityFromChild(this, intent, requestCode);            }        }    }

Instrumentation.java

   */    public ActivityResult execStartActivity(            Context who, IBinder contextThread, IBinder token, Activity target,            Intent intent, int requestCode, Bundle options) {        IApplicationThread whoThread = (IApplicationThread) contextThread;        if (mActivityMonitors != null) {            synchronized (mSync) {                final int N = mActivityMonitors.size();                for (int i=0; i<N; i++) {                    final ActivityMonitor am = mActivityMonitors.get(i);                    if (am.match(who, null, intent)) {                        am.mHits++;                        if (am.isBlocking()) {                            return requestCode >= 0 ? am.getResult() : null;                        }                        break;                    }                }            }        }        try {            intent.migrateExtraStreamToClipData();            intent.prepareToLeaveProcess();            int result = ActivityManagerNative.getDefault()                .startActivity(whoThread, who.getBasePackageName(), intent,                        intent.resolveTypeIfNeeded(who.getContentResolver()),                        token, target != null ? target.mEmbeddedID : null,                        requestCode, 0, null, null, options);            checkStartActivityResult(result, intent);        } catch (RemoteException e) {        }        return null;    }

IActivityManager有两个子类:ActivityManagerProxy,ActivityManagerNative，不难看出，是用了代理,走startActivity的是ActivityManagerProxy

ActivityManagerProxy.java

 public int startActivity(IApplicationThread caller, Intent intent,            String resolvedType, IBinder resultTo, String resultWho, int requestCode,            int startFlags, String profileFile,            ParcelFileDescriptor profileFd, Bundle options) throws RemoteException {        Parcel data = Parcel.obtain();        Parcel reply = Parcel.obtain();        data.writeInterfaceToken(IActivityManager.descriptor);        data.writeStrongBinder(caller != null ? caller.asBinder() : null);        intent.writeToParcel(data, 0);        data.writeString(resolvedType);        data.writeStrongBinder(resultTo);        data.writeString(resultWho);        data.writeInt(requestCode);        data.writeInt(startFlags);        data.writeString(profileFile);        if (profileFd != null) {            data.writeInt(1);            profileFd.writeToParcel(data, Parcelable.PARCELABLE_WRITE_RETURN_VALUE);        } else {            data.writeInt(0);        }        if (options != null) {            data.writeInt(1);            options.writeToParcel(data, 0);        } else {            data.writeInt(0);        }        mRemote.transact(START_ACTIVITY_TRANSACTION, data, reply, 0);        reply.readException();        int result = reply.readInt();        reply.recycle();        data.recycle();        return result;    }

可以看出，走的是进程通讯的路子,这里的
mRemote就是:IBinder b = ServiceManager.getService("activity");
这个binder是ActivityManagerService（传说中的AMS登场!）:

(因为在SystemServer.java的run()中有调用
  ActivityManagerService.setSystemProcess();里的
      ServiceManager.addService("activity", m);)

通过Binder的transact方法把意图传送出去。