Android Wear, startActivityForResult not working from custom display intent notification

Question

When starting an activity from an activity embedded in a wear side notification (using WearableExtender.setDisplayIntent), activity is not drawn/rendered properly when 2nd activity finishes, just a black screen. Activities/pages to left/right render properly.

Problem Description: - Activity DisplayActivity (embedded as display intent):

    <activity
        android:name=".DisplayActivity"
        android:allowEmbedded="true"
        android:exported="true"
        android:taskAffinity=""/>

- Activity StartedActivity:

    <activity
        android:name=".StartedActivity"
        android:allowEmbedded="true"
        android:exported="true"
        />

- Embed DisplayActivity in a wear-side notification - From DisplayActivity, start StartedActivity using Activity.startActivityForResult with new task flags (intent.setFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK | Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_TASK)) - Finish DisplayActivity by swiping to right or by clicking some button that calls Activity.finish(); - Returning to notification, but DisplayActivity is black and doesn't recognize touch input. Swipe to left/right pages works.

Expected: DisplayActivity to render correctly.

Device: Samsung Gear Live
Software version: 4.4W
Build number: KMV78Y

Answer 1

Opened https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=74882 for this problem, changing from Activity.startActivityForResult() to Activity.startActivity() seems to be a workaround.