android.intent.category.DEFAULT

        最近遇到HOME按键不能返回首页，纠结了好久，最终找到问题了，发现Launcher中主Activity没有加android.intent.category.DEFAULT属性，导致Intent匹配失败，通过隐式启动Activity时必须添加android.intent.category.DEFAULT属性，负责启动Activity会失败。

<activity
            android:name="com.vlctech.launcher.MainActivity"
            android:configChanges="keyboardHidden|orientation|screenSize"
            android:label="@string/app_name"
            android:launchMode="singleTask"
            android:screenOrientation="landscape"
            android:clearTaskOnLaunch="true"
            android:windowSoftInputMode="stateUnchanged" >

            <intent-filter>
                <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />
                <category android:name="android.intent.category.HOME" />
		<category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" />  
            </intent-filter>
</activity>

        按HOME键由PhoneWindowManager.java的launchHomeFromHotKey()方法开始最终会调用到frameworks\base\services\java\com\android\server\IntentResolver.java 的buildResolveList方法。

    private void buildResolveList(Intent intent, FastImmutableArraySet<String> categories,
            boolean debug, boolean defaultOnly,
            String resolvedType, String scheme, F[] src, List<R> dest, int userId) {
        final String action = intent.getAction();
        final Uri data = intent.getData();
        final String packageName = intent.getPackage();

        final boolean excludingStopped = intent.isExcludingStopped();

        final int N = src != null ? src.length : 0;
        boolean hasNonDefaults = false;
        int i;
        F filter;
        for (i=0; i<N && (filter=src[i]) != null; i++) {
            int match;
            if (debug) Slog.v(TAG, "Matching against filter " + filter);

            if (excludingStopped && isFilterStopped(filter, userId)) {
                if (debug) {
                    Slog.v(TAG, "  Filter's target is stopped; skipping");
                }
                continue;
            }

            // Is delivery being limited to filters owned by a particular package?
            if (packageName != null && !packageName.equals(packageForFilter(filter))) {
                if (debug) {
                    Slog.v(TAG, "  Filter is not from package " + packageName + "; skipping");
                }
                continue;
            }

            // Do we already have this one?
            if (!allowFilterResult(filter, dest)) {
                if (debug) {
                    Slog.v(TAG, "  Filter's target already added");
                }
                continue;
            }

            match = filter.match(action, resolvedType, scheme, data, categories, TAG);
            if (match >= 0) {
                if (debug) Slog.v(TAG, "  Filter matched!  match=0x" +
                        Integer.toHexString(match));

                Log.i("jintuo"," new defaultOnly = " + defaultOnly);
                if (!defaultOnly || filter.hasCategory(Intent.CATEGORY_DEFAULT)) {
                    final R oneResult = newResult(filter, match, userId);
                    if (oneResult != null) {
                        dest.add(oneResult);
                    Log.i("jintuo","dest.add(oneResult)");
                    }
                } else {
                    hasNonDefaults = true;
                }
            } else {
                if (debug) {
                    String reason;
                    switch (match) {
                        case IntentFilter.NO_MATCH_ACTION: reason = "action"; break;
                        case IntentFilter.NO_MATCH_CATEGORY: reason = "category"; break;
                        case IntentFilter.NO_MATCH_DATA: reason = "data"; break;
                        case IntentFilter.NO_MATCH_TYPE: reason = "type"; break;
                        default: reason = "unknown reason"; break;
                    }
                    Slog.v(TAG, "  Filter did not match: " + reason);
                }
            }
        }

        if (dest.size() == 0 && hasNonDefaults) {
            Slog.w(TAG, "resolveIntent failed: found match, but none with Intent.CATEGORY_DEFAULT");
        }
    }

       按HOME键时打印 Slog.w(TAG, "resolveIntent failed: found match, but none with Intent.CATEGORY_DEFAULT"); 

由此我们就找到 if (!defaultOnly || filter.hasCategory(Intent.CATEGORY_DEFAULT)) 这里，发现找不到要启动的应用（HOME）的Intent.CATEGORY_DEFAULT及android.intent.category.DEFAULT属性，到此找到问题。