Android 从程序启动startActivity到生命周期变化的过程

在上篇文章中，我们了解了Android应用程序是如何启动的，也介绍了具体的流程调用。知道了整个APP的启动过程都是由ActivityThread类中执行的，而且启动中的生命周期的变化都是通过Handler消息机制来完成的。那么这篇将要具体介绍从启动到startActivity时生命周期变化的过程。
从上篇知道执行了ApplicationThread中scheduleLaunchActivity，在这个方法中我们可以看到通过Handler机制，将ActivityClientRecord作为消息对象发送给Handler进行处理，可以在handleMessage中处理接收的消息。

public void handleMessage(Message msg) {
    if (DEBUG_MESSAGES) Slog.v(TAG, ">>> handling: " + codeToString(msg.what));
    switch (msg.what) {
        case LAUNCH_ACTIVITY: {
            Trace.traceBegin(Trace.TRACE_TAG_ACTIVITY_MANAGER, "activityStart");
            final ActivityClientRecord r = (ActivityClientRecord) msg.obj;

            r.packageInfo = getPackageInfoNoCheck(
                    r.activityInfo.applicationInfo, r.compatInfo);
            handleLaunchActivity(r, null, "LAUNCH_ACTIVITY");
            Trace.traceEnd(Trace.TRACE_TAG_ACTIVITY_MANAGER);
        } break;

        ....

ActivityThread#handleLaunchActivity
其中传入的customIntent 为null

private void handleLaunchActivity(ActivityClientRecord r, Intent customIntent, String reason) {
    // If we are getting ready to gc after going to the background, well
    // we are back active so skip it.
    unscheduleGcIdler();
    mSomeActivitiesChanged = true;

    if (r.profilerInfo != null) {
        mProfiler.setProfiler(r.profilerInfo);
        mProfiler.startProfiling();
    }

    // Make sure we are running with the most recent config.
    //step1：处理config
    handleConfigurationChanged(null, null);

    if (localLOGV) Slog.v(
        TAG, "Handling launch of " + r);

    // Initialize before creating the activity
    //step2: 初始化windowManager
    WindowManagerGlobal.initialize();

    //step3：执行启动Activity
    Activity a = performLaunchActivity(r, customIntent);

    if (a != null) {
        r.createdConfig = new Configuration(mConfiguration);
        reportSizeConfigurations(r);
        Bundle oldState = r.state;
        handleResumeActivity(r.token, false, r.isForward,
                !r.activity.mFinished && !r.startsNotResumed, r.lastProcessedSeq, reason);

        if (!r.activity.mFinished && r.startsNotResumed) {
            // The activity manager actually wants this one to start out paused, because it
            // needs to be visible but isn't in the foreground. We accomplish this by going
            // through the normal startup (because activities expect to go through onResume()
            // the first time they run, before their window is displayed), and then pausing it.
            // However, in this case we do -not- need to do the full pause cycle (of freezing
            // and such) because the activity manager assumes it can just retain the current
            // state it has.

            //step 4
            performPauseActivityIfNeeded(r, reason);

            // We need to keep around the original state, in case we need to be created again.
            // But we only do this for pre-Honeycomb apps, which always save their state when
            // pausing, so we can not have them save their state when restarting from a paused
            // state. For HC and later, we want to (and can) let the state be saved as the
            // normal part of stopping the activity.
            if (r.isPreHoneycomb()) {
                r.state = oldState;
            }
        }
    } else {
        // If there was an error, for any reason, tell the activity manager to stop us.
        try {
            ActivityManager.getService()
                .finishActivity(r.token, Activity.RESULT_CANCELED, null,
                        Activity.DONT_FINISH_TASK_WITH_ACTIVITY);
        } catch (RemoteException ex) {
            throw ex.rethrowFromSystemServer();
        }
    }
}

step 3：执行启动Activity

ActivityThread#performLaunchActivity
其中传入的customIntent 为null

private Activity performLaunchActivity(ActivityClientRecord r, Intent customIntent) {
    // System.out.println("##### [" + System.currentTimeMillis() + "] //ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(" + r + ")");

    //step 1: 
    ActivityInfo aInfo = r.activityInfo;
    if (r.packageInfo == null) {
        r.packageInfo = getPackageInfo(aInfo.applicationInfo, r.compatInfo,
                Context.CONTEXT_INCLUDE_CODE);
    }

    //step 2:查找出设置的默认启动的component 名字
    ComponentName component = r.intent.getComponent();
    if (component == null) {
        component = r.intent.resolveActivity(
            mInitialApplication.getPackageManager());
        r.intent.setComponent(component);
    }

    //step 3:
    if (r.activityInfo.targetActivity != null) {
        component = new ComponentName(r.activityInfo.packageName,
                r.activityInfo.targetActivity);
    }

    //step 4:
    ContextImpl appContext = createBaseContextForActivity(r);

    //step 5: 初始化Actvity类
    Activity activity = null;
    try {
        java.lang.ClassLoader cl = appContext.getClassLoader();
        activity = mInstrumentation.newActivity(
                cl, component.getClassName(), r.intent);
        StrictMode.incrementExpectedActivityCount(activity.getClass());
        r.intent.setExtrasClassLoader(cl);
        r.intent.prepareToEnterProcess();
        if (r.state != null) {
            r.state.setClassLoader(cl);
        }
    } catch (Exception e) {
        if (!mInstrumentation.onException(activity, e)) {
            throw new RuntimeException(
                "Unable to instantiate activity " + component
                + ": " + e.toString(), e);
        }
    }

    try {
        //step 6: 初始化Application类
        Application app = r.packageInfo.makeApplication(false, mInstrumentation);

        if (localLOGV) Slog.v(TAG, "Performing launch of " + r);
        if (localLOGV) Slog.v(
                TAG, r + ": app=" + app
                + ", appName=" + app.getPac