How does android's app screen resume a running activity?

Issue

I would like to know how the android app screen resumes a running activity or rather how the Intent used therefor looks like. I already tried to get the "resume-intent" by activity.getIntent() in the activity's onResume(), but it looks like that getIntent() only returns the "start-intent". So is there a way to get this "resume-intent" or does anybody know how it looks like?

Thx

Solution

Based on your comment in a (now deleted) answer:

I do following: Navigating to the activity -> pressing home button -> click the according launcher-icon on the app screen (what brings me back to my activity). The intent used in this case for resuming the activity is what I'm interested in

There is no Intent sent to resume your Activity in this case. When you launch your application, Android just brings the existing task that contains your application from the background to the foreground and then resumes the Activity that is on the top of the stack.

Answered By - David Wasser