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I'm learning Android development and I'm a bit confused about how Android manages killing process when an activity is on the task's stack. Let's say I have a task with 4 activities: A-B-C-D.

Let A,B,D be part of process P1 and C be part of process P2.

Let's suppose that while the user is interacting with D Android kills P2 since D needs a lot of memory. What happens when the user press the back key?

1) Since P2 has been killed and C is missing, B will be on the top (i.e. the stack becomes A-B). 2) A new process (let it be P3) is created and activity C is restarted (but of course its state will be the "starting" state)