一、概述

Activity作为Android四大组件之一，也是我们平时开发中使用的最多的组件，相信大家已经了解了它的基本使用，那么是否知道Activity的onCreate()、onStart()、onResume()方法是什么时候调用的呢？接下来就从源码角度来分析Activity的工作原理

二、从main()方法源码开始分析

我们知道每一个程序都有一个入口，类似于c语言中的入口是main()方法一样，Android中也有个main()方法，它就是ActivityThrea中的main()方法。

public static void main(String[] args) { SamplingProfilerIntegration.start(); // CloseGuard defaults to true and can be quite spammy. We // disable it here, but selectively enable it later (via // StrictMode) on debug builds, but using DropBox, not logs. CloseGuard.setEnabled(false); Environment.initForCurrentUser(); // Set the reporter for event logging in libcore EventLogger.setReporter(new EventLoggingReporter()); Security.addProvider(new AndroidKeyStoreProvider()); Process.setArgV0("<pre-initialized>"); Looper.prepareMainLooper(); ActivityThread thread = new ActivityThread(); thread.attach(false); if (sMainThreadHandler == null) { sMainThreadHandler = thread.getHandler(); } AsyncTask.init(); if (false) { Looper.myLooper().setMessageLogging(new LogPrinter(Log.DEBUG, "ActivityThread")); } Looper.loop(); throw new RuntimeException("Main thread loop unexpectedly exited"); }

从上面代码可以看出，首先初始化了Looper，这也解释了为什么我们在子线程中使用Handler不是创建Looper，因为系统已经帮我们实现了。接下来，创建ActivityThread对象，并且调用attach()方法。

private void attach(boolean system) { sCurrentActivityThread = this; mSystemThread = system; if (!system) { ViewRootImpl.addFirstDrawHandler(new Runnable() { public void run() { ensureJitEnabled(); } }); android.ddm.DdmHandleAppName.setAppName("<pre-initialized>", UserHandle.myUserId()); RuntimeInit.setApplicationObject(mAppThread.asBinder()); IActivityManager mgr = ActivityManagerNative.getDefault(); try { mgr.attachApplication(mAppThread); } catch (RemoteException ex) { // Ignore } } else { // Don't set application object here -- if the system crashes, // we can't display an alert, we just want to die die die. android.ddm.DdmHandleAppName.setAppName("system_process", UserHandle.myUserId()); try { mInstrumentation = new Instrumentation(); ContextImpl context = new ContextImpl(); context.init(getSystemContext().mPackageInfo, null, this); Application app = Instrumentation.newApplication(Application.class, context); mAllApplications.add(app); mInitialApplication = app; app.onCreate(); } catch (Exception e) { throw new RuntimeException( "Unable to instantiate Application():" + e.toString(), e); } } // add dropbox logging to libcore DropBox.setReporter(new DropBoxReporter()); ViewRootImpl.addConfigCallback(new ComponentCallbacks2() { public void onConfigurationChanged(Configuration newConfig) { synchronized (mPackages) { // We need to apply this change to the resources // immediately, because upon returning the view // hierarchy will be informed about it. if (applyConfigurationToResourcesLocked(newConfig, null)) { // This actually changed the resources! Tell // everyone about it. if (mPendingConfiguration == null || mPendingConfiguration.isOtherSeqNewer(newConfig)) { mPendingConfiguration = newConfig; queueOrSendMessage(H.CONFIGURATION_CHANGED, newConfig); } } } } public void onLowMemory() { } public void onTrimMemory(int level) { } }); } final ApplicationThread mAppThread = new ApplicationThread();

从源码可以看出，因为system为false，所以首先获取ActivityManagerService对象，然后调用ActivityManagerService的attachApplication()方法。至于这里为什么说IActivityManager是ActivityManagerService，将会在第三节中提到。继续看ActivityManagerService的attachApplication()。

@Override public final void attachApplication(IApplicationThread thread) { synchronized (this) { int callingPid = Binder.getCallingPid(); final long origId = Binder.clearCallingIdentity(); attachApplicationLocked(thread, callingPid); Binder.restoreCallingIdentity(origId); } } private final boolean attachApplicationLocked(IApplicationThread thread, int pid) { 省略 // See if the top visible activity is waiting to run in this process... if (normalMode) { try { if (mStackSupervisor.attachApplicationLocked(app)) { didSomething = true; } } catch (Exception e) { Slog.wtf(TAG, "Exception thrown launching activities in " + app, e); badApp = true; } } 省略 }

关于attachApplicationLocked方法的代码很多，真正启动Activity的就是上面几行代码。继续跟进去

boolean attachApplicationLocked(ProcessRecord app) throws RemoteException { final String processName = app.processName; boolean didSomething = false; for (int displayNdx = mActivityDisplays.size() - 1; displayNdx >= 0; --displayNdx) { ArrayList<ActivityStack> stacks = mActivityDisplays.valueAt(displayNdx).mStacks; for (int stackNdx = stacks.size() - 1; stackNdx >= 0; --stackNdx) { final ActivityStack stack = stacks.get(stackNdx); if (!isFrontStack(stack)) { continue; } ActivityRecord hr = stack.topRunningActivityLocked(null); if (hr != null) { if (hr.app == null && app.uid == hr.info.applicationInfo.uid && processName.equals(hr.processName)) { try { if (realStartActivityLocked(hr, app, true, true)) { didSomething = true; } } catch (RemoteException e) { Slog.w(TAG, "Exception in new application when starting activity " + hr.intent.getComponent().flattenToShortString(), e); throw e; } } } } } if (!didSomething) { ensureActivitiesVisibleLocked(null, 0); } return didSomething; }

遍历Activity栈，找到栈顶的Activity，从下面一个代码可以看出是startActivity了

realStartActivityLocked(hr, app, true, true)

继续跟进去

省略 final boolean realStartActivityLocked(ActivityRecord r, ProcessRecord app, boolean andResume, boolean checkConfig) throws RemoteException { app.thread.scheduleLaunchActivity(new Intent(r.intent), r.appToken, System.identityHashCode(r), r.info, new Configuration(mService.mConfiguration), new Configuration(stack.mOverrideConfig), r.compat, r.launchedFromPackage, task.voiceInteractor, app.repProcState, r.icicle, r.persistentState, results, newIntents, !andResume, mService.isNextTransitionForward(), profilerInfo); } 省略

这里还只是看核心代码，从上文可以看出，调用app.thread的scheduleLaunchActivity方法，而这里的app.thread又是ApplicationThread，而ApplicationThread又是什么呢？其实它是ActivityThread的内部类，当调用ApplicationThread的scheduleLaunchActivity的时候，会通过Handler发送一个消息，这个Handler就是在ActivityThread中的H这个类，在H中处理又交给ActivityThread的方法来处理。OK，看源码。

public final void scheduleLaunchActivity(Intent intent, IBinder token, int ident, ActivityInfo info, Configuration curConfig, CompatibilityInfo compatInfo, Bundle state, List<ResultInfo> pendingResults, List<Intent> pendingNewIntents, boolean notResumed, boolean isForward, String profileName, ParcelFileDescriptor profileFd, boolean autoStopProfiler) { ActivityClientRecord r = new ActivityClientRecord(); r.token = token; r.ident = ident; r.intent = intent; r.activityInfo = info; r.compatInfo = compatInfo; r.state = state; r.pendingResults = pendingResults; r.pendingIntents = pendingNewIntents; r.startsNotResumed = notResumed; r.isForward = isForward; r.profileFile = profileName; r.profileFd = profileFd; r.autoStopProfiler = autoStopProfiler; updatePendingConfiguration(curConfig); queueOrSendMessage(H.LAUNCH_ACTIVITY, r); } private void queueOrSendMessage(int what, Object obj, int arg1, int arg2) { synchronized (this) { if (DEBUG_MESSAGES) Slog.v( TAG, "SCHEDULE " + what + " " + mH.codeToString(what) + ": " + arg1 + " / " + obj); Message msg = Message.obtain(); msg.what = what; msg.obj = obj; msg.arg1 = arg1; msg.arg2 = arg2; mH.sendMessage(msg); } } private class H extends Handler { public static final int LAUNCH_ACTIVITY = 100; 省略 String codeToString(int code) { if (DEBUG_MESSAGES) { switch (code) { case LAUNCH_ACTIVITY: return "LAUNCH_ACTIVITY"; 省略 } } return Integer.toString(code); } public void handleMessage(Message msg) { if (DEBUG_MESSAGES) Slog.v(TAG, ">>> handling: " + codeToString(msg.what)); switch (msg.what) { case LAUNCH_ACTIVITY: { Trace.traceBegin(Trace.TRACE_TAG_ACTIVITY_MANAGER, "activityStart"); ActivityClientRecord r = (ActivityClientRecord)msg.obj; r.packageInfo = getPackageInfoNoCheck( r.activityInfo.applicationInfo, r.compatInfo); handleLaunchActivity(r, null); Trace.traceEnd(Trace.TRACE_TAG_ACTIVITY_MANAGER); } break; 省略 } } private void handleLaunchActivity(ActivityClientRecord r, Intent customIntent) { // If we are getting ready to gc after going to the background, well // we are back active so skip it. unscheduleGcIdler(); if (r.profileFd != null) { mProfiler.setProfiler(r.profileFile, r.profileFd); mProfiler.startProfiling(); mProfiler.autoStopProfiler = r.autoStopProfiler; } // Make sure we are running with the most recent config. handleConfigurationChanged(null, null); if (localLOGV) Slog.v( TAG, "Handling launch of " + r); Activity a = performLaunchActivity(r, customIntent); if (a != null) { r.createdConfig = new Configuration(mConfiguration); Bundle oldState = r.state; handleResumeActivity(r.token, false, r.isForward, !r.activity.mFinished && !r.startsNotResumed); if (!r.activity.mFinished && r.startsNotResumed) { // The activity manager actually wants this one to start out // paused, because it needs to be visible but isn't in the // foreground. We accomplish this by going through the // normal startup (because activities expect to go through // onResume() the first time they run, before their window // is displayed), and then pausing it. However, in this case // we do -not- need to do the full pause cycle (of freezing // and such) because the activity manager assumes it can just // retain the current state it has. try { r.activity.mCalled = false; mInstrumentation.callActivityOnPause(r.activity); // We need to keep around the original state, in case // we need to be created again. But we only do this // for pre-Honeycomb apps, which always save their state // when pausing, so we can not have them save their state // when restarting from a paused state. For HC and later, // we want to (and can) let the state be saved as the normal // part of stopping the activity. if (r.isPreHoneycomb()) { r.state = oldState; } if (!r.activity.mCalled) { throw new SuperNotCalledException( "Activity " + r.intent.getComponent().toShortString() + " did not call through to super.onPause()"); } } catch (SuperNotCalledException e) { throw e; } catch (Exception e) { if (!mInstrumentation.onException(r.activity, e)) { throw new RuntimeException( "Unable to pause activity " + r.intent.getComponent().toShortString() + ": " + e.toString(), e); } } r.paused = true; } } else { // If there was an error, for any reason, tell the activity // manager to stop us. try { ActivityManagerNative.getDefault() .finishActivity(r.token, Activity.RESULT_CANCELED, null); } catch (RemoteException ex) { // Ignore } } }

从handleLaunchActivity()方法中，首先调用performLaunchActivity()方法创建Activity。

private Activity performLaunchActivity(ActivityClientRecord r, Intent customIntent) { // System.out.println("##### [" + System.currentTimeMillis() + "] ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(" + r + ")"); ActivityInfo aInfo = r.activityInfo; if (r.packageInfo == null) { r.packageInfo = getPackageInfo(aInfo.applicationInfo, r.compatInfo, Context.CONTEXT_INCLUDE_CODE); } ComponentName component = r.intent.getComponent(); if (component == null) { component = r.intent.resolveActivity( mInitialApplication.getPackageManager()); r.intent.setComponent(component); } if (r.activityInfo.targetActivity != null) { component = new ComponentName(r.activityInfo.packageName, r.activityInfo.targetActivity); } Activity activity = null; try { java.lang.ClassLoader cl = r.packageInfo.getClassLoader(); activity = mInstrumentation.newActivity( cl, component.getClassName(), r.intent); StrictMode.incrementExpectedActivityCount(activity.getClass()); r.intent.setExtrasClassLoader(cl); if (r.state != null) { r.state.setClassLoader(cl); } } catch (Exception e) { if (!mInstrumentation.onException(activity, e)) { throw new RuntimeException( "Unable to instantiate activity " + component + ": " + e.toString(), e); } } try { Application app = r.packageInfo.makeApplication(false, mInstrumentation); if (localLOGV) Slog.v(TAG, "Performing launch of " + r); if (localLOGV) Slog.v( TAG, r + ": app=" + app + ", appName=" + app.getPackageName() + ", pkg=" + r.packageInfo.getPackageName() + ", comp=" + r.intent.getComponent().toShortString() + ", dir=" + r.packageInfo.getAppDir()); if (activity != null) { Context appContext = createBaseContextForActivity(r, activity); CharSequence title = r.activityInfo.loadLabel(appContext.getPackageManager()); Configuration config = new Configuration(mCompatConfiguration); if (DEBUG_CONFIGURATION) Slog.v(TAG, "Launching activity " + r.activityInfo.name + " with config " + config); activity.attach(appContext, this, getInstrumentation(), r.token, r.ident, app, r.intent, r.activityInfo, title, r.parent, r.embeddedID, r.lastNonConfigurationInstances, config); if (customIntent != null) { activity.mIntent = customIntent; } r.lastNonConfigurationInstances = null; activity.mStartedActivity = false; int theme = r.activityInfo.getThemeResource(); if (theme != 0) { activity.setTheme(theme); } activity.mCalled = false; mInstrumentation.callActivityOnCreate(activity, r.state); if (!activity.mCalled) { throw new SuperNotCalledException( "Activity " + r.intent.getComponent().toShortString() + " did not call through to super.onCreate()"); } r.activity = activity; r.stopped = true; if (!r.activity.mFinished) { activity.performStart(); r.stopped = false; } if (!r.activity.mFinished) { if (r.state != null) { mInstrumentation.callActivityOnRestoreInstanceState(activity, r.state); } } if (!r.activity.mFinished) { activity.mCalled = false; mInstrumentation.callActivityOnPostCreate(activity, r.state); if (!activity.mCalled) { throw new SuperNotCalledException( "Activity " + r.intent.getComponent().toShortString() + " did not call through to super.onPostCreate()"); } } } r.paused = true; mActivities.put(r.token, r); } catch (SuperNotCalledException e) { throw e; } catch (Exception e) { if (!mInstrumentation.onException(activity, e)) { throw new RuntimeException( "Unable to start activity " + component + ": " + e.toString(), e); } } return activity; }

从上面可以看出，先创建Activity、再创建Application，接着依次执行Activity的onCreate()、onStart()方法主要是调用Instrumentation类中的方法完成生命周期方法。再回到handleLaunchActivity()，再获取了Activity对象之后，又调用了handleResumeActivity()方法. 再看这个方法之前，我们首先要知道当执行onResume()方法完成了什么？相信大家都知道，就是Activity从不可见到可见状态。

final void handleResumeActivity(IBinder token, boolean clearHide, boolean isForward, boolean reallyResume) { // If we are getting ready to gc after going to the background, well // we are back active so skip it. unscheduleGcIdler(); ActivityClientRecord r = performResumeActivity(token, clearHide); if (r != null) { final Activity a = r.activity; if (localLOGV) Slog.v( TAG, "Resume " + r + " started activity: " + a.mStartedActivity + ", hideForNow: " + r.hideForNow + ", finished: " + a.mFinished); final int forwardBit = isForward ? WindowManager.LayoutParams.SOFT_INPUT_IS_FORWARD_NAVIGATION : 0; // If the window hasn't yet been added to the window manager, // and this guy didn't finish itself or start another activity, // then go ahead and add the window. boolean willBeVisible = !a.mStartedActivity; if (!willBeVisible) { try { willBeVisible = ActivityManagerNative.getDefault().willActivityBeVisible( a.getActivityToken()); } catch (RemoteException e) { } } if (r.window == null && !a.mFinished && willBeVisible) { r.window = r.activity.getWindow(); View decor = r.window.getDecorView(); decor.setVisibility(View.INVISIBLE); ViewManager wm = a.getWindowManager(); WindowManager.LayoutParams l = r.window.getAttributes(); a.mDecor = decor; l.type = WindowManager.LayoutParams.TYPE_BASE_APPLICATION; l.softInputMode |= forwardBit; if (a.mVisibleFromClient) { a.mWindowAdded = true; wm.addView(decor, l); } // If the window has already been added, but during resume // we started another activity, then don't yet make the // window visible. } else if (!willBeVisible) { if (localLOGV) Slog.v( TAG, "Launch " + r + " mStartedActivity set"); r.hideForNow = true; }

从上面可以看出首先调用performResumeActivity()，接着就是完成一些使Activity可见的操作，比如获取DecorView，并条件到windowManager上等，这里就不详细说了。从这里我们就大致了解Activity启动过程。

三、从startActivity()源码开始分析

首先从Activity的startActivity()方法开始看,几种重载都是调用startActivityForResult()方法

@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); } }

startActivityForResult()如下：

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); } } }

将Activity的启动交给了Instrumentation

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; }

然后Activity的启动又交给了ActivityManagerNative.getDefault()

public abstract class ActivityManagerNative extends Binder implements IActivityManager

ActivityManagerNative是一个抽象类，它继承Binder、实现IActivityManager，因此是一个Binder，接着看getDefault()方法返回的是什么？

static public IActivityManager getDefault() { return gDefault.get(); }

再看

public final class ActivityManagerService extends ActivityManagerNative

由此可以看出AMS是具体实现。

然后就是AMS.startActivity()了,之后就是ActivityStack和ActivitySupervisor之间方法的切换，最后在ActivitySupervisor的realStartActivityLocked()方法中真正启动，接下来的和第二节的类似了，就不重复分析了。

四、分析setContentView()

相信setContentView()这个方法大家熟悉不过了，就是给Activity设置布局，那么它的底层到底是怎么实现的呢？

public void setContentView(int layoutResID) { getWindow().setContentView(layoutResID); initActionBar(); }

这里调用window的setContentView(),我们知道这里的window就是PhoneWindow，看源码

@Override public void setContentView(int layoutResID) { if (mContentParent == null) { installDecor(); } else { mContentParent.removeAllViews(); } mLayoutInflater.inflate(layoutResID, mContentParent); final Callback cb = getCallback(); if (cb != null && !isDestroyed()) { cb.onContentChanged(); } } private void installDecor() { if (mDecor == null) { mDecor = generateDecor(); mDecor.setDescendantFocusability(ViewGroup.FOCUS_AFTER_DESCENDANTS); mDecor.setIsRootNamespace(true); if (!mInvalidatePanelMenuPosted && mInvalidatePanelMenuFeatures != 0) { mDecor.postOnAnimation(mInvalidatePanelMenuRunnable); } } if (mContentParent == null) { mContentParent = generateLayout(mDecor); // Set up decor part of UI to ignore fitsSystemWindows if appropriate. mDecor.makeOptionalFitsSystemWindows(); mTitleView = (TextView)findViewById(com.android.internal.R.id.title); if (mTitleView != null) { mTitleView.setLayoutDirection(mDecor.getLayoutDirection()); if ((getLocalFeatures() & (1 << FEATURE_NO_TITLE)) != 0) { View titleContainer = findViewById(com.android.internal.R.id.title_container); if (titleContainer != null) { titleContainer.setVisibility(View.GONE); } else { mTitleView.setVisibility(View.GONE); } if (mContentParent instanceof FrameLayout) { ((FrameLayout)mContentParent).setForeground(null); } } else { mTitleView.setText(mTitle); } } else { mActionBar = (ActionBarView) findViewById(com.android.internal.R.id.action_bar); if (mActionBar != null) { mActionBar.setWindowCallback(getCallback()); if (mActionBar.getTitle() == null) { mActionBar.setWindowTitle(mTitle); } final int localFeatures = getLocalFeatures(); if ((localFeatures & (1 << FEATURE_PROGRESS)) != 0) { mActionBar.initProgress(); } if ((localFeatures & (1 << FEATURE_INDETERMINATE_PROGRESS)) != 0) { mActionBar.initIndeterminateProgress(); } boolean splitActionBar = false; final boolean splitWhenNarrow = (mUiOptions & ActivityInfo.UIOPTION_SPLIT_ACTION_BAR_WHEN_NARROW) != 0; if (splitWhenNarrow) { splitActionBar = getContext().getResources().getBoolean( com.android.internal.R.bool.split_action_bar_is_narrow); } else { splitActionBar = getWindowStyle().getBoolean( com.android.internal.R.styleable.Window_windowSplitActionBar, false); } final ActionBarContainer splitView = (ActionBarContainer) findViewById( com.android.internal.R.id.split_action_bar); if (splitView != null) { mActionBar.setSplitView(splitView); mActionBar.setSplitActionBar(splitActionBar); mActionBar.setSplitWhenNarrow(splitWhenNarrow); final ActionBarContextView cab = (ActionBarContextView) findViewById( com.android.internal.R.id.action_context_bar); cab.setSplitView(splitView); cab.setSplitActionBar(splitActionBar); cab.setSplitWhenNarrow(splitWhenNarrow); } else if (splitActionBar) { Log.e(TAG, "Requested split action bar with " + "incompatible window decor! Ignoring request."); } // Post the panel invalidate for later; avoid application onCreateOptionsMenu // being called in the middle of onCreate or similar. mDecor.post(new Runnable() { public void run() { // Invalidate if the panel menu hasn't been created before this. PanelFeatureState st = getPanelState(FEATURE_OPTIONS_PANEL, false); if (!isDestroyed() && (st == null || st.menu == null)) { invalidatePanelMenu(FEATURE_ACTION_BAR); } } }); } } } }

从源码可以看出，首先获取DecorView对象，然后将其传到generateLayout(mDecor)获取mContentParent，那么这个mContentParent是什么呢？其实就是我们设置的xml布局，mContentParent + titleView就是我们说的DecorView.至于generateLayout(mDecor)是如何完成的，这里就不详解了。再次回到PhoneWindow的setContentView()，接着执行mLayoutInflater.inflate(layoutResID, mContentParent)，再获取了内容之后，就开始填充了。

OK，这篇博客就到这里了。