简析Activity的工作流程

对于Activity的分析，本文选择的是安卓8.0的源码，我们从Activity的创建即onCreat方法去探索它的工作流程。分析之前，先上一个UML活动图，大致梳理一下工作流程:

我们平时通调用startActivity方法来启动一个Activity，所以就从startActivity这个方法分析。通过API，Activity有多个重载的startActivity方法，但最终都调用的是startActivityForResult方法，代码如下：

public void startActivityForResult(@RequiresPermission Intent intent, int requestCode,
            @Nullable Bundle options) {
        if (mParent == null) {
            options = transferSpringboardActivityOptions(options);
            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;
            }

            cancelInputsAndStartExitTransition(options);
            // TODO Consider clearing/flushing other event sources and events for child windows.
        } 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);
            }
        }
    }

这里的mParent是父容器Activity。当父容器mParent==null时，实质是调用了Instrumentation的execStartActivity方法，然后通过ActivityThread的sendActivityResult方法将启动的结果发送返回；如果当前的View是一个子view，就会调用父容器Activity的startActivityFromChild方法，而它最终同样也是调用了Instrumentation的execStartActivity方法。

public void startActivityFromChild(@NonNull Activity child, @RequiresPermission Intent intent,
            int requestCode, @Nullable Bundle options) {
        options = transferSpringboardActivityOptions(options);
        Instrumentation.ActivityResult ar =
            mInstrumentation.execStartActivity(
                this, mMainThread.getApplicationThread(), mToken, child,
                intent, requestCode, options);
        if (ar != null) {
            mMainThread.sendActivityResult(
                mToken, child.mEmbeddedID, requestCode,
                ar.getResultCode(), ar.getResultData());
        }
        cancelInputsAndStartExitTransition(options);
    }

现在，我们看一下Instrumentation的这个execStartActivity方法。

 public ActivityResult execStartActivity(
            Context who, IBinder contextThread, IBinder token, Activity target,
            Intent intent, int requestCode, Bundle options) {
        IApplicationThread whoThread = (IApplicationThread) contextThread;
        Uri referrer = target != null ? target.onProvideReferrer() : null;
        if (referrer != null) {
            intent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_REFERRER, referrer);
        }
        if (mActivityMonitors != null) {
            synchronized (mSync) {
                final int N = mActivityMonitors.size();
                for (int i=0; i= 0 ? am.getResult() : null;
                        }
                        break;
                    }
                }
            }
        }
        try {
            intent.migrateExtraStreamToClipData();
            intent.prepareToLeaveProcess(who);
            int result = ActivityManager.getService()
                .startActivity(whoThread, who.getBasePackageName(), intent,
                        intent.resolveTypeIfNeeded(who.getContentResolver()),
                        token, target != null ? target.mEmbeddedID : null,
                        requestCode, 0, null, options);
            checkStartActivityResult(result, intent);
        } catch (RemoteException e) {
            throw new RuntimeException("Failure from system", e);
        }
        return null;
    }

代码很长，我们略过前面那些数据信息初始化过程，重点看启动过程，可以看出真正的实现是由ActivityManager.getService()的startActivity方法完成。ActivityManager.getService()返回的是一个IActivityManager,这个类由aidl文件生成，实质是一个Binder，实现类是ActivityManagerService，简称我们所说的AMS,它也是一个Binder。从ActivityManager的源码来看，AMS这个Binder是由一个单例类提供。从create()回调方法看，当前启动activity的binder对象通过ServiceManager提供，这个ServiceManager其实就是一个Binder连接池，根据缓存key返回各个组件对应的Binder,过程如下：

/**
     * @hide
     */
    public static IActivityManager getService() {
        return IActivityManagerSingleton.get();
    }

    private static final Singleton IActivityManagerSingleton =
            new Singleton() {
                @Override
                protected IActivityManager create() {
                    final IBinder b = ServiceManager.getService(Context.ACTIVITY_SERVICE);
                    final IActivityManager am = IActivityManager.Stub.asInterface(b);
                    return am;
                }
            };

由此看来，流程转移到AMS的startActivity()方法中，AMS的startActivity()又调用了startActivityAsUser()方法。从代码中看，又调用了ActivityStarter的startActivityMayWait()方法.

AMS的相关代码如下：

@Override
    public final int startActivity(IApplicationThread caller, String callingPackage,
            Intent intent, String resolvedType, IBinder resultTo, String resultWho, int requestCode,
            int startFlags, ProfilerInfo profilerInfo, Bundle bOptions) {
        return startActivityAsUser(caller, callingPackage, intent, resolvedType, resultTo,
                resultWho, requestCode, startFlags, profilerInfo, bOptions,
                UserHandle.getCallingUserId());
    }

    @Override
    public final int startActivityAsUser(IApplicationThread caller, String callingPackage,
            Intent intent, String resolvedType, IBinder resultTo, String resultWho, int requestCode,
            int startFlags, ProfilerInfo profilerInfo, Bundle bOptions, int userId) {
        enforceNotIsolatedCaller("startActivity");
        userId = mUserController.handleIncomingUser(Binder.getCallingPid(), Binder.getCallingUid(),
                userId, false, ALLOW_FULL_ONLY, "startActivity", null);
        // TODO: Switch to user app stacks here.
        return mActivityStarter.startActivityMayWait(caller, -1, callingPackage, intent,
                resolvedType, null, null, resultTo, resultWho, requestCode, startFlags,
                profilerInfo, null, null, bOptions, false, userId, null, null,
                "startActivityAsUser");
    }

接着，我们看下ActivityStarter的startActivityMayWait()方法.这里先解析和获取了一些组件信息及传递参数信息，然后调用startActivityLocked()方法.startActivityLocked()方法又调用startActivity()方法，将一些相关信息封装进ActivityRecord对象，然后又开始调用了startActivityUnchecked()方法.由于这段代码过长，只选取重点代码展示:

final ActivityRecord[] outRecord = new ActivityRecord[1];
            int res = startActivityLocked(caller, intent, ephemeralIntent, resolvedType,
                    aInfo, rInfo, voiceSession, voiceInteractor,
                    resultTo, resultWho, requestCode, callingPid,
                    callingUid, callingPackage, realCallingPid, realCallingUid, startFlags,
                    options, ignoreTargetSecurity, componentSpecified, outRecord, container,
                    inTask, reason);

在这个方法中，又最终调用了ActivityStackSupervisor的resumeFocusedStackTopActivityLocked()方法.resumeFocusedStackTopActivityLocked又调用了ActivityStack的resumeTopActivityUncheckedLocked()方法.这个方法接着调用resumeTopActivityInnerLocked()方法.

boolean resumeTopActivityUncheckedLocked(ActivityRecord prev, ActivityOptions options) {
        if (mStackSupervisor.inResumeTopActivity) {
            // Don't even start recursing.
            return false;
        }

        boolean result = false;
        try {
            // Protect against recursion.
            mStackSupervisor.inResumeTopActivity = true;
            result = resumeTopActivityInnerLocked(prev, options);
        } finally {
            mStackSupervisor.inResumeTopActivity = false;
        }
        // When resuming the top activity, it may be necessary to pause the top activity (for
        // example, returning to the lock screen. We suppress the normal pause logic in
        // {@link #resumeTopActivityUncheckedLocked}, since the top activity is resumed at the end.
        // We call the {@link ActivityStackSupervisor#checkReadyForSleepLocked} again here to ensure
        // any necessary pause logic occurs.
        mStackSupervisor.checkReadyForSleepLocked();

        return result;
    }

resumeTopActivityInnerLocked方法内部经过一系列判断最终都实质调用了ActivityStackSupervisor的startSpecificActivityLocked()方法.这个方法又调用realStartActivityLocked()方法.在这个方法内部，实现了比较关键的流程实现转移关节.在这段代码中， app.thread.scheduleLaunchActivity() 这段很关键.

这里app.thread是IApplicationThread,这又是一个aidl文件，是一个Binder，内部实现是ActivityThread的内部类ApplicationThread.所以需要看下这个ApplicationThread的scheduleLaunchActivity() 方法.

void startSpecificActivityLocked(ActivityRecord r,
            boolean andResume, boolean checkConfig) {
        // Is this activity's application already running?
        ProcessRecord app = mService.getProcessRecordLocked(r.processName,
                r.info.applicationInfo.uid, true);

        r.getStack().setLaunchTime(r);

        if (app != null && app.thread != null) {
            try {
                if ((r.info.flags&ActivityInfo.FLAG_MULTIPROCESS) == 0
                        || !"android".equals(r.info.packageName)) {
                    // Don't add this if it is a platform component that is marked
                    // to run in multiple processes, because this is actually
                    // part of the framework so doesn't make sense to track as a
                    // separate apk in the process.
                    app.addPackage(r.info.packageName, r.info.applicationInfo.versionCode,
                            mService.mProcessStats);
                }
                realStartActivityLocked(r, app, andResume, checkConfig);
                return;
            } catch (RemoteException e) {
                Slog.w(TAG, "Exception when starting activity "
                        + r.intent.getComponent().flattenToShortString(), e);
            }

            // If a dead object exception was thrown -- fall through to
            // restart the application.
        }

        mService.startProcessLocked(r.processName, r.info.applicationInfo, true, 0,
                "activity", r.intent.getComponent(), false, false, true);
    }

////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
final boolean realStartActivityLocked(ActivityRecord r, ProcessRecord app,
            boolean andResume, boolean checkConfig) throws RemoteException {

        if (!allPausedActivitiesComplete()) {
            // While there are activities pausing we skipping starting any new activities until
            // pauses are complete. NOTE: that we also do this for activities that are starting in
            // the paused state because they will first be resumed then paused on the client side.
            if (DEBUG_SWITCH || DEBUG_PAUSE || DEBUG_STATES) Slog.v(TAG_PAUSE,
                    "realStartActivityLocked: Skipping start of r=" + r
                    + " some activities pausing...");
            return false;
        }

        r.startFreezingScreenLocked(app, 0);
        if (r.getStack().checkKeyguardVisibility(r, true /* shouldBeVisible */, true /* isTop */)) {
            // We only set the visibility to true if the activity is allowed to be visible based on
            // keyguard state. This avoids setting this into motion in window manager that is later
            // cancelled due to later calls to ensure visible activities that set visibility back to
            // false.
            r.setVisibility(true);
        }

        // schedule launch ticks to collect information about slow apps.
        r.startLaunchTickingLocked();

        // Have the window manager re-evaluate the orientation of the screen based on the new
        // activity order.  Note that as a result of this, it can call back into the activity
        // manager with a new orientation.  We don't care about that, because the activity is not
        // currently running so we are just restarting it anyway.
        if (checkConfig) {
            final int displayId = r.getDisplayId();
            final Configuration config = mWindowManager.updateOrientationFromAppTokens(
                    getDisplayOverrideConfiguration(displayId),
                    r.mayFreezeScreenLocked(app) ? r.appToken : null, displayId);
            // Deferring resume here because we're going to launch new activity shortly.
            // We don't want to perform a redundant launch of the same record while ensuring
            // configurations and trying to resume top activity of focused stack.
            mService.updateDisplayOverrideConfigurationLocked(config, r, true /* deferResume */,
                    displayId);
        }

        if (mKeyguardController.isKeyguardLocked()) {
            r.notifyUnknownVisibilityLaunched();
        }
        final int applicationInfoUid =
                (r.info.applicationInfo != null) ? r.info.applicationInfo.uid : -1;
        if ((r.userId != app.userId) || (r.appInfo.uid != applicationInfoUid)) {
            Slog.wtf(TAG,
                    "User ID for activity changing for " + r
                            + " appInfo.uid=" + r.appInfo.uid
                            + " info.ai.uid=" + applicationInfoUid
                            + " old=" + r.app + " new=" + app);
        }

        r.app = app;
        app.waitingToKill = null;
        r.launchCount++;
        r.lastLaunchTime = SystemClock.uptimeMillis();

        if (DEBUG_ALL) Slog.v(TAG, "Launching: " + r);

        int idx = app.activities.indexOf(r);
        if (idx < 0) {
            app.activities.add(r);
        }
        mService.updateLruProcessLocked(app, true, null);
        mService.updateOomAdjLocked();

        final TaskRecord task = r.getTask();
        if (task.mLockTaskAuth == LOCK_TASK_AUTH_LAUNCHABLE ||
                task.mLockTaskAuth == LOCK_TASK_AUTH_LAUNCHABLE_PRIV) {
            setLockTaskModeLocked(task, LOCK_TASK_MODE_LOCKED, "mLockTaskAuth==LAUNCHABLE", false);
        }

        final ActivityStack stack = task.getStack();
        try {
            if (app.thread == null) {
                throw new RemoteException();
            }
            List results = null;
            List newIntents = null;
            if (andResume) {
                // We don't need to deliver new intents and/or set results if activity is going
                // to pause immediately after launch.
                results = r.results;
                newIntents = r.newIntents;
            }
            if (DEBUG_SWITCH) Slog.v(TAG_SWITCH,
                    "Launching: " + r + " icicle=" + r.icicle + " with results=" + results
                    + " newIntents=" + newIntents + " andResume=" + andResume);
            EventLog.writeEvent(EventLogTags.AM_RESTART_ACTIVITY, r.userId,
                    System.identityHashCode(r), task.taskId, r.shortComponentName);
            if (r.isHomeActivity()) {
                // Home process is the root process of the task.
                mService.mHomeProcess = task.mActivities.get(0).app;
            }
            mService.notifyPackageUse(r.intent.getComponent().getPackageName(),
                                      PackageManager.NOTIFY_PACKAGE_USE_ACTIVITY);
            r.sleeping = false;
            r.forceNewConfig = false;
            mService.showUnsupportedZoomDialogIfNeededLocked(r);
            mService.showAskCompatModeDialogLocked(r);
            r.compat = mService.compatibilityInfoForPackageLocked(r.info.applicationInfo);
            ProfilerInfo profilerInfo = null;
            if (mService.mProfileApp != null && mService.mProfileApp.equals(app.processName)) {
                if (mService.mProfileProc == null || mService.mProfileProc == app) {
                    mService.mProfileProc = app;
                    final String profileFile = mService.mProfileFile;
                    if (profileFile != null) {
                        ParcelFileDescriptor profileFd = mService.mProfileFd;
                        if (profileFd != null) {
                            try {
                                profileFd = profileFd.dup();
                            } catch (IOException e) {
                                if (profileFd != null) {
                                    try {
                                        profileFd.close();
                                    } catch (IOException o) {
                                    }
                                    profileFd = null;
                                }
                            }
                        }

                        profilerInfo = new ProfilerInfo(profileFile, profileFd,
                                mService.mSamplingInterval, mService.mAutoStopProfiler,
                                mService.mStreamingOutput);
                    }
                }
            }

            app.hasShownUi = true;
            app.pendingUiClean = true;
            app.forceProcessStateUpTo(mService.mTopProcessState);
            // Because we could be starting an Activity in the system process this may not go across
            // a Binder interface which would create a new Configuration. Consequently we have to
            // always create a new Configuration here.

            final MergedConfiguration mergedConfiguration = new MergedConfiguration(
                    mService.getGlobalConfiguration(), r.getMergedOverrideConfiguration());
            r.setLastReportedConfiguration(mergedConfiguration);

            app.thread.scheduleLaunchActivity(new Intent(r.intent), r.appToken,
                    System.identityHashCode(r), r.info,
                    // TODO: Have this take the merged configuration instead of separate global and
                    // override configs.
                    mergedConfiguration.getGlobalConfiguration(),
                    mergedConfiguration.getOverrideConfiguration(), r.compat,
                    r.launchedFromPackage, task.voiceInteractor, app.repProcState, r.icicle,
                    r.persistentState, results, newIntents, !andResume,
                    mService.isNextTransitionForward(), profilerInfo);

            if ((app.info.privateFlags&ApplicationInfo.PRIVATE_FLAG_CANT_SAVE_STATE) != 0) {
                // This may be a heavy-weight process!  Note that the package
                // manager will ensure that only activity can run in the main
                // process of the .apk, which is the only thing that will be
                // considered heavy-weight.
                if (app.processName.equals(app.info.packageName)) {
                    if (mService.mHeavyWeightProcess != null
                            && mService.mHeavyWeightProcess != app) {
                        Slog.w(TAG, "Starting new heavy weight process " + app
                                + " when already running "
                                + mService.mHeavyWeightProcess);
                    }
                    mService.mHeavyWeightProcess = app;
                    Message msg = mService.mHandler.obtainMessage(
                            ActivityManagerService.POST_HEAVY_NOTIFICATION_MSG);
                    msg.obj = r;
                    mService.mHandler.sendMessage(msg);
                }
            }

        } catch (RemoteException e) {
            if (r.launchFailed) {
                // This is the second time we failed -- finish activity
                // and give up.
                Slog.e(TAG, "Second failure launching "
                      + r.intent.getComponent().flattenToShortString()
                      + ", giving up", e);
                mService.appDiedLocked(app);
                stack.requestFinishActivityLocked(r.appToken, Activity.RESULT_CANCELED, null,
                        "2nd-crash", false);
                return false;
            }

            // This is the first time we failed -- restart process and
            // retry.
            r.launchFailed = true;
            app.activities.remove(r);
            throw e;
        }

        r.launchFailed = false;
        if (stack.updateLRUListLocked(r)) {
            Slog.w(TAG, "Activity " + r + " being launched, but already in LRU list");
        }

        if (andResume) {
            // As part of the process of launching, ActivityThread also performs
            // a resume.
            stack.minimalResumeActivityLocked(r);
        } else {
            // This activity is not starting in the resumed state... which should look like we asked
            // it to pause+stop (but remain visible), and it has done so and reported back the
            // current icicle and other state.
            if (DEBUG_STATES) Slog.v(TAG_STATES,
                    "Moving to PAUSED: " + r + " (starting in paused state)");
            r.state = PAUSED;
        }

        // Launch the new version setup screen if needed.  We do this -after-
        // launching the initial activity (that is, home), so that it can have
        // a chance to initialize itself while in the background, making the
        // switch back to it faster and look better.
        if (isFocusedStack(stack)) {
            mService.startSetupActivityLocked();
        }

        // Update any services we are bound to that might care about whether
        // their client may have activities.
        if (r.app != null) {
            mService.mServices.updateServiceConnectionActivitiesLocked(r.app);
        }

        return true;
    }

ApplicationThread的scheduleLaunchActivity() 方法如下,

 @Override
        public final void scheduleLaunchActivity(Intent intent, IBinder token, int ident,
                ActivityInfo info, Configuration curConfig, Configuration overrideConfig,
                CompatibilityInfo compatInfo, String referrer, IVoiceInteractor voiceInteractor,
                int procState, Bundle state, PersistableBundle persistentState,
                List pendingResults, List pendingNewIntents,
                boolean notResumed, boolean isForward, ProfilerInfo profilerInfo) {

            updateProcessState(procState, false);

            ActivityClientRecord r = new ActivityClientRecord();

            r.token = token;
            r.ident = ident;
            r.intent = intent;
            r.referrer = referrer;
            r.voiceInteractor = voiceInteractor;
            r.activityInfo = info;
            r.compatInfo = compatInfo;
            r.state = state;
            r.persistentState = persistentState;

            r.pendingResults = pendingResults;
            r.pendingIntents = pendingNewIntents;

            r.startsNotResumed = notResumed;
            r.isForward = isForward;

            r.profilerInfo = profilerInfo;

            r.overrideConfig = overrideConfig;
            updatePendingConfiguration(curConfig);

            sendMessage(H.LAUNCH_ACTIVITY, r);
        }

我们可以看到，这个 ApplicationThread的scheduleLaunchActivity() 方法实际上通过一个handler发送了启动Activity的消息.在这个handler收到消息后，又调用了ActivityThread的handleLaunchActivity()方法.

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");
                    final ActivityClientRecord r = (ActivityClientRecord) msg.obj;

                    r.packageInfo = getPackageInfoNoCheck(
                            r.activityInfo.applicationInfo, r.compatInfo);
                    handleLaunchActivity(r, null, "LAUNCH_ACTIVITY");
                    Trace.traceEnd(Trace.TRACE_TAG_ACTIVITY_MANAGER);
                } break;

    private void handleLaunchActivity(ActivityClientRecord r, Intent customIntent, String reason) {
        // If we are getting ready to gc after going to the background, well
        // we are back active so skip it.
        unscheduleGcIdler();
        mSomeActivitiesChanged = true;

        if (r.profilerInfo != null) {
            mProfiler.setProfiler(r.profilerInfo);
            mProfiler.startProfiling();
        }

        // Make sure we are running with the most recent config.
        handleConfigurationChanged(null, null);

        if (localLOGV) Slog.v(
            TAG, "Handling launch of " + r);

        // Initialize before creating the activity
        WindowManagerGlobal.initialize();

        Activity a = performLaunchActivity(r, customIntent);

        if (a != null) {
            r.createdConfig = new Configuration(mConfiguration);
            reportSizeConfigurations(r);
            Bundle oldState = r.state;
            handleResumeActivity(r.token, false, r.isForward,
                    !r.activity.mFinished && !r.startsNotResumed, r.lastProcessedSeq, reason);

            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.
                performPauseActivityIfNeeded(r, reason);

                // 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;
                }
            }
        } else {
            // If there was an error, for any reason, tell the activity manager to stop us.
            try {
                ActivityManager.getService()
                    .finishActivity(r.token, Activity.RESULT_CANCELED, null,
                            Activity.DONT_FINISH_TASK_WITH_ACTIVITY);
            } catch (RemoteException ex) {
                throw ex.rethrowFromSystemServer();
            }
        }
    }

这个handleLaunchActivity()方法又调用了performLaunchActivity()方法，而这个方法就是最终让我们待启动的Activity创建出来，该方法创建一个activity对象。在这个方法中，主要完成以下几件事:

1.从ActvityClientRecord中获取待启动Activity的组件信息;

2.通过类加载器及获得的组件名，调用Instrumentation的newActivity方法创建activity对象;

3.调用LoadedApk的makeApplication方法创建一个application对象

4.actvity和application获得后，依次调用activity声明周期方法，attach,通过Instrumentation调用callActivityOnCreate方法

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);
        }

        ContextImpl appContext = createBaseContextForActivity(r);
        Activity activity = null;
        try {
            java.lang.ClassLoader cl = appContext.getClassLoader();
            activity = mInstrumentation.newActivity(
                    cl, component.getClassName(), r.intent);
            StrictMode.incrementExpectedActivityCount(activity.getClass());
            r.intent.setExtrasClassLoader(cl);
            r.intent.prepareToEnterProcess();
            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) {
                CharSequence title = r.activityInfo.loadLabel(appContext.getPackageManager());
                Configuration config = new Configuration(mCompatConfiguration);
                if (r.overrideConfig != null) {
                    config.updateFrom(r.overrideConfig);
                }
                if (DEBUG_CONFIGURATION) Slog.v(TAG, "Launching activity "
                        + r.activityInfo.name + " with config " + config);
                Window window = null;
                if (r.mPendingRemoveWindow != null && r.mPreserveWindow) {
                    window = r.mPendingRemoveWindow;
                    r.mPendingRemoveWindow = null;
                    r.mPendingRemoveWindowManager = null;
                }
                appContext.setOuterContext(activity);
                activity.attach(appContext, this, getInstrumentation(), r.token,
                        r.ident, app, r.intent, r.activityInfo, title, r.parent,
                        r.embeddedID, r.lastNonConfigurationInstances, config,
                        r.referrer, r.voiceInteractor, window, r.configCallback);

                if (customIntent != null) {
                    activity.mIntent = customIntent;
                }
                r.lastNonConfigurationInstances = null;
                checkAndBlockForNetworkAccess();
                activity.mStartedActivity = false;
                int theme = r.activityInfo.getThemeResource();
                if (theme != 0) {
                    activity.setTheme(theme);
                }

                activity.mCalled = false;
                if (r.isPersistable()) {
                    mInstrumentation.callActivityOnCreate(activity, r.state, r.persistentState);
                } else {
                    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.isPersistable()) {
                        if (r.state != null || r.persistentState != null) {
                            mInstrumentation.callActivityOnRestoreInstanceState(activity, r.state,
                                    r.persistentState);
                        }
                    } else if (r.state != null) {
                        mInstrumentation.callActivityOnRestoreInstanceState(activity, r.state);
                    }
                }
                if (!r.activity.mFinished) {
                    activity.mCalled = false;
                    if (r.isPersistable()) {
                        mInstrumentation.callActivityOnPostCreate(activity, r.state,
                                r.persistentState);
                    } else {
                        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;
    }

到此，Activity的启动创建过程就完成了，这时Activity对应的生命周期回调方法onAttatch()，onCreate()会被回调.