android.util.AndroidRuntimeException: Calling startActivity() from outside of an Activity

Caused by: android.util.AndroidRuntimeException: Calling startActivity() from outside of an Activity context requires the FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK flag. Is this really what you want?

Context中有一个startActivity方法，Activity继承自Context，重载了startActivity方法。如果使用 Activity的startActivity方法，不会有任何限制，而如果使用Context的startActivity方法的话，就需要开启一个新 的task，遇到上面那个异常的，都是因为使用了Context的startActivity方法。解决办法是，加一个flag。

intent.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK); 

解释如下：

 /**
     * Launch a new activity.  You will not receive any information about when
     * the activity exits.
     *
     * <p>Note that if this method is being called from outside of an
     * {@link android.app.Activity} Context, then the Intent must include
     * the {@link Intent#FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK} launch flag.  This is because,
     * without being started from an existing Activity, there is no existing
     * task in which to place the new activity and thus it needs to be placed
     * in its own separate task.
     *
     * <p>This method throws {@link ActivityNotFoundException}
     * if there was no Activity found to run the given Intent.
     *
     * @param intent The description of the activity to start.
     *
     * @throws ActivityNotFoundException
     *
     * @see PackageManager#resolveActivity
     */
    public abstract void startActivity(Intent intent);

以上解释了为什么使用Context的startActivity方法（比如在Service中或者BroadcastReceiver中启动Activity）为什么需要添加flag：FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK

补充内容:

今天在做向前一个Activity传递数据的时候，偶然间将自己的Intent中添加了FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK,然后报出了以下错误，LOG如下：

(15771): FATAL EXCEPTION: main
E/AndroidRuntime(15771): Process: cn.shandongligong.lsy.models, PID: 15771
E/AndroidRuntime(15771): java.lang.RuntimeException: Failure delivering result ResultInfo{who=null, request=1338, result=0, data=null} to activity {cn.shandongligong.lsy.models/cn.shandongligong.lsy.models.AllocateTaskActivity}: java.lang.NullPointerException: Attempt to invoke virtual method 'void instance.TaskItem.setWorkerName(java.lang.String)' on a null object reference
E/AndroidRuntime(15771):        at android.app.ActivityThread.deliverResults(ActivityThread.java:3539)
E/AndroidRuntime(15771):        at android.app.ActivityThread.handleSendResult(ActivityThread.java:3582)
E/AndroidRuntime(15771):        at android.app.ActivityThread.access$1300(ActivityThread.java:144)
E/AndroidRuntime(15771):        at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1327)
E/AndroidRuntime(15771):        at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:102)
E/AndroidRuntime(15771):        at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:135)
E/AndroidRuntime(15771):        at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:5221)
E/AndroidRuntime(15771):        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
E/AndroidRuntime(15771):        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:372)
E/AndroidRuntime(15771):        at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:899)
E/AndroidRuntime(15771):        at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:694)
E/AndroidRuntime(15771): Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException: Attempt to invoke virtual method 'void instance.TaskItem.setWorkerName(java.lang.String)' on a null object reference
E/AndroidRuntime(15771):        at cn.shandongligong.lsy.models.AllocateTaskActivity.onActivityResult(AllocateTaskActivity.java:375)
E/AndroidRuntime(15771):        at android.app.Activity.dispatchActivityResult(Activity.java:6135)
E/AndroidRuntime(15771):        at android.app.ActivityThread.deliverResults(ActivityThread.java:3535)
E/AndroidRuntime(15771):        ... 10 more

这样来看我的Intent跳转是如何编写的：

  Intent intent = new Intent(AllocateTaskActivity.this,WorkerChooseActivity.class);
  intent.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK);
  AllocateTaskActivity.this.startActivityForResult(intent, CHOOSE_WORKER_REQUEST);

就是因为添加了

FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK

导致两个Activity并不在同一个栈中，使得向上一个Activity传递数据时resultCode变为０，也就是RESULT_CANCELED，无法获取传来的数据，所以导致错误的发生！