应用启动很简单，通常只需要2、3行代码就能完成启动。

Intent intent = new Intent(this,OtherActivity.class);
startActivity(intent);

在这里，我们来详细分析是怎么启动应用的，首先我们来简单的介绍下Context上下文。

Context 源码位置：frameworks\base\core\java\android\content\Context.java

简单介绍：Context应用环境全局信息接口，它是一个抽象类， 它允许访问特定于应用程序的资源和类，以及应用程序级操作的上调，如启动活动，广播和接收意向等。

我们的app一般都多少个Context存在呢？看如下图就明白了。

Paste_Image.png

此图为网上原图，ContextIml应该为ContextImpl.

得知：Context数量 = Application+Activity数量+Service数量.
上图得知Context是个抽象类，具体实现由ContextImpl来完成。

frameworks\base\core\java\android\content\ContextWrapper.java

 @Override
 public void startActivity(Intent intent) {
      mBase.startActivity(intent);
 }

在这里mBase对象是ContextImpl，通过调用

public class ContextWrapper extends Context {
    Context mBase;

    public ContextWrapper(Context base) {
        mBase = base;
    }
    
    /**
     * Set the base context for this ContextWrapper.  All calls will then be
     * delegated to the base context.  Throws
     * IllegalStateException if a base context has already been set.
     * 
     * @param base The new base context for this wrapper.
     */
    protected void attachBaseContext(Context base) {
        if (mBase != null) {
            throw new IllegalStateException("Base context already set");
        }
        mBase = base;
    }
    .............
}

再此那是谁传递过来的mBase对象呢。

frameworks\base\core\java\android\app\ActivityThread.java

    private Context createBaseContextForActivity(ActivityClientRecord r, final Activity activity) {
        int displayId = Display.DEFAULT_DISPLAY;
        try {
            displayId = ActivityManagerNative.getDefault().getActivityDisplayId(r.token);
        } catch (RemoteException e) {
        }
        //通过调用ContextImpl的静态方法createActivityContext
        ContextImpl appContext = ContextImpl.createActivityContext(
                this, r.packageInfo, displayId, r.overrideConfig);
        appContext.setOuterContext(activity);
        Context baseContext = appContext;

        final DisplayManagerGlobal dm = DisplayManagerGlobal.getInstance();

        String pkgName = SystemProperties.get("debug.second-display.pkg");
        if (pkgName != null && !pkgName.isEmpty()
                && r.packageInfo.mPackageName.contains(pkgName)) {
            for (int id : dm.getDisplayIds()) {
                if (id != Display.DEFAULT_DISPLAY) {
                    Display display =
                            dm.getCompatibleDisplay(id, appContext.getDisplayAdjustments(id));
                    baseContext = appContext.createDisplayContext(display);
                    break;
                }
            }
        }
        return baseContext;
    }

在ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity方法中通过Instrumentation直接new一个Activity对象并且调用其attach传递ContextImpl对象进去。

frameworks\base\core\java\android\app\ActivityThread.java

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

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

        ComponentName component = r.intent.getComponent();
        if (component == null) {
            component = r.intent.resolveActivity(
                mInitialApplication.getPackageManager());
            r.intent.setComponent(component);
        }

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

        Activity activity = null;
        try {
            //直接获取到加载此Activity的类加载器ClassLoader，通过Instrumentation对象直接创建出Activity且调用attach方法，所有Activity第一个被执行的方法为attach.
            java.lang.ClassLoader cl = r.packageInfo.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 {
            //再此之前需要先创建Application对象
            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.getPackageName()
                    + ", pkg=" + r.packageInfo.getPackageName()
                    + ", comp=" + r.intent.getComponent().toShortString()
                    + ", dir=" + r.packageInfo.getAppDir());

            if (activity != null) {
                Context appContext = createBaseContextForActivity(r, activity);
                CharSequence title = r.activityInfo.loadLabel(appContext.getPackageManager());
                Configuration config = new Configuration(mCompatConfiguration);
                if (DEBUG_CONFIGURATION) Slog.v(TAG, "Launching activity "
                        + r.activityInfo.name + " with config " + config);
                activity.attach(appContext, this, getInstrumentation(), r.token,
                        r.ident, app, r.intent, r.activityInfo, title, r.parent,
                        r.embeddedID, r.lastNonConfigurationInstances, config,
                        r.referrer, r.voiceInteractor);

                if (customIntent != null) {
                    activity.mIntent = customIntent;
                }
                r.lastNonConfigurationInstances = null;
                activity.mStartedActivity = false;
                int theme = r.activityInfo.getThemeResource();
                if (theme != 0) {
                    activity.setTheme(theme);
                }

                activity.mCalled = false;
                if (r.isPersistable()) {
                    mInstrumentation.callActivityOnCreate(activity, r.state, r.persistentState);
                } else {
                    mInstrumentation.callActivityOnCreate(activity, r.state);
                }
                if (!activity.mCalled) {
                    throw new SuperNotCalledException(
                        "Activity " + r.intent.getComponent().toShortString() +
                        " did not call through to super.onCreate()");
                }
                r.activity = activity;
                r.stopped = true;
                if (!r.activity.mFinished) {
                    activity.performStart();
                    r.stopped = false;
                }
                if (!r.activity.mFinished) {
                    if (r.isPersistable()) {
                        if (r.state != null || r.persistentState != null) {
                            mInstrumentation.callActivityOnRestoreInstanceState(activity, r.state,
                                    r.persistentState);
                        }
                    } else if (r.state != null) {
                        mInstrumentation.callActivityOnRestoreInstanceState(activity, r.state);
                    }
                }
                if (!r.activity.mFinished) {
                    activity.mCalled = false;
                    if (r.isPersistable()) {
                        mInstrumentation.callActivityOnPostCreate(activity, r.state,
                                r.persistentState);
                    } else {
                        mInstrumentation.callActivityOnPostCreate(activity, r.state);
                    }
                    if (!activity.mCalled) {
                        throw new SuperNotCalledException(
                            "Activity " + r.intent.getComponent().toShortString() +
                            " did not call through to super.onPostCreate()");
                    }
                }
            }
            r.paused = true;

            mActivities.put(r.token, r);

        } catch (SuperNotCalledException e) {
            throw e;

        } catch (Exception e) {
            if (!mInstrumentation.onException(activity, e)) {
                throw new RuntimeException(
                    "Unable to start activity " + component
                    + ": " + e.toString(), e);
            }
        }

        return activity;
    }

到这里从创建一个Application，再到这里创建Activity介绍了，我们理清了ContextWrapper.mBase的对象由来。

言归正传，我们再回到ContextImpl的startActivity方法。

    @Override
    public void startActivity(Intent intent) {
        warnIfCallingFromSystemProcess();
        startActivity(intent, null);
    }
    @Override
    public void startActivity(Intent intent, Bundle options) {
        warnIfCallingFromSystemProcess();
        //这里判断是否处于同一个Task栈中
        if ((intent.getFlags()&Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK) == 0) {
            throw new AndroidRuntimeException(
                    "Calling startActivity() from outside of an Activity "
                    + " context requires the FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK flag."
                    + " Is this really what you want?");
        }
        
        mMainThread.getInstrumentation().execStartActivity(
                getOuterContext(), mMainThread.getApplicationThread(), null,
                (Activity) null, intent, -1, options);
    }

frameworks\base\core\java\android\app\Instrumentation.java

    public ActivityResult execStartActivity(
            Context who, IBinder contextThread, IBinder token, Activity target,
            Intent intent, int requestCode, Bundle options) {
        IApplicationThread whoThread = (IApplicationThread) contextThread;
        Uri referrer = target != null ? target.onProvideReferrer() : null;
        if (referrer != null) {
            intent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_REFERRER, referrer);
        }
        if (mActivityMonitors != null) {
            synchronized (mSync) {
                final int N = mActivityMonitors.size();
                for (int i=0; i<N; i++) {
                    final ActivityMonitor am = mActivityMonitors.get(i);
                    if (am.match(who, null, intent)) {
                        am.mHits++;
                        if (am.isBlocking()) {
                            return requestCode >= 0 ? am.getResult() : null;
                        }
                        break;
                    }
                }
            }
        }
        try {
            intent.migrateExtraStreamToClipData();
            //准备进场进程间通讯了
            intent.prepareToLeaveProcess();
            int result = ActivityManagerNative.getDefault()
                .startActivity(whoThread, who.getBasePackageName(), intent,
                        intent.resolveTypeIfNeeded(who.getContentResolver()),
                        token, target != null ? target.mEmbeddedID : null,
                        requestCode, 0, null, options);
            checkStartActivityResult(result, intent);
        } catch (RemoteException e) {
            throw new RuntimeException("Failure from system", e);
        }
        return null;
    }

我们来看下ActivityManagerNative.getDefault（）是什么鬼。

frameworks\base\core\java\android\app\ActivityManagerNative.java

   static public IActivityManager getDefault() {
        return gDefault.get();
    }

      private static final Singleton<IActivityManager> gDefault = new Singleton<IActivityManager>() {
        protected IActivityManager create() {
            //所有服务都由ServiceManager来管理，这里返回ActivityManagerService放到IBinder对象
            IBinder b = ServiceManager.getService("activity");
            if (false) {
                Log.v("ActivityManager", "default service binder = " + b);
            }
            IActivityManager am = asInterface(b);
            if (false) {
                Log.v("ActivityManager", "default service = " + am);
            }
            return am;
        }
    };

回到
frameworks\base\core\java\android\app\ActivityManagerNative.java中的内部类ActivityManagerProxy。

public int startActivity(IApplicationThread caller, String callingPackage, Intent intent,
            String resolvedType, IBinder resultTo, String resultWho, int requestCode,
            int startFlags, ProfilerInfo profilerInfo, Bundle options) throws RemoteException {
        Parcel data = Parcel.obtain();
        Parcel reply = Parcel.obtain();
        data.writeInterfaceToken(IActivityManager.descriptor);
        data.writeStrongBinder(caller != null ? caller.asBinder() : null);
        data.writeString(callingPackage);
        intent.writeToParcel(data, 0);
        data.writeString(resolvedType);
        data.writeStrongBinder(resultTo);
        data.writeString(resultWho);
        data.writeInt(requestCode);
        data.writeInt(startFlags);
        if (profilerInfo != null) {
            data.writeInt(1);
            profilerInfo.writeToParcel(data, Parcelable.PARCELABLE_WRITE_RETURN_VALUE);
        } else {
            data.writeInt(0);
        }
        if (options != null) {
            data.writeInt(1);
            options.writeToParcel(data, 0);
        } else {
            data.writeInt(0);
        }
        mRemote.transact(START_ACTIVITY_TRANSACTION, data, reply, 0);
        reply.readException();
        int result = reply.readInt();
        reply.recycle();
        data.recycle();
        return result;
    }

现在我们终于可以去看管事的主啦~
frameworks\base\services\core\java\com\android\server\am\ActivityManagerService.java。我们来看下ActivityManagerService到底是何方神圣。

public final class ActivityManagerService extends ActivityManagerNative
        implements Watchdog.Monitor, BatteryStatsImpl.BatteryCallback

看到这个是不是很亲切，我们再来分析它。如果使用过AIDL的同学应该明白，进程间通信可以通过Binder来实现。

//从上面方法中可以找到这句，这里是主动发送序列化数据包。
mRemote.transact(START_ACTIVITY_TRANSACTION, data, reply, 0);

//接收方在这里。
    @Override
    public boolean onTransact(int code, Parcel data, Parcel reply, int flags)
            throws RemoteException {
        switch (code) {
        case START_ACTIVITY_TRANSACTION:
        {
            data.enforceInterface(IActivityManager.descriptor);
            IBinder b = data.readStrongBinder();
            IApplicationThread app = ApplicationThreadNative.asInterface(b);
            String callingPackage = data.readString();
            Intent intent = Intent.CREATOR.createFromParcel(data);
            String resolvedType = data.readString();
            IBinder resultTo = data.readStrongBinder();
            String resultWho = data.readString();
            int requestCode = data.readInt();
            int startFlags = data.readInt();
            ProfilerInfo profilerInfo = data.readInt() != 0
                    ? ProfilerInfo.CREATOR.createFromParcel(data) : null;
            Bundle options = data.readInt() != 0
                    ? Bundle.CREATOR.createFromParcel(data) : null;
            int result = startActivity(app, callingPackage, intent, resolvedType,
                    resultTo, resultWho, requestCode, startFlags, profilerInfo, options);
            reply.writeNoException();
            reply.writeInt(result);
            return true;
        }
        .................  
        //再回到ActivityManagerService,这里实现 
        int result = startActivity(app, callingPackage, intent, resolvedType,
                    resultTo, resultWho, requestCode, startFlags, profilerInfo, 

}

@Override
public final int startActivity(IApplicationThread caller, String callingPackage,
        Intent intent, String resolvedType, IBinder resultTo, String resultWho, int requestCode,
        int startFlags, ProfilerInfo profilerInfo, Bundle options) {
    return startActivityAsUser(caller, callingPackage, intent, resolvedType, resultTo,
        resultWho, requestCode, startFlags, profilerInfo, options,
        UserHandle.getCallingUserId());
}

@Override
    public final int startActivityAsUser(IApplicationThread caller, String callingPackage,
            Intent intent, String resolvedType, IBinder resultTo, String resultWho, int requestCode,
            int startFlags, ProfilerInfo profilerInfo, Bundle options, int userId) {
        enforceNotIsolatedCaller("startActivity");
        //这里检查是否需要重新创建UserId
        userId = handleIncomingUser(Binder.getCallingPid(), Binder.getCallingUid(), userId,
                false, ALLOW_FULL_ONLY, "startActivity", null);
        // 在这里切换到用户应用程序堆栈
        return mStackSupervisor.startActivityMayWait(caller, -1, callingPackage, intent,
                resolvedType, null, null, resultTo, resultWho, requestCode, startFlags,
                profilerInfo, null, null, options, false, userId, null, null);
    }

frameworks\base\services\core\java\com\android\server\am\ActivityStackSupervisor.java

final int startActivityMayWait(IApplicationThread caller, int callingUid,
            String callingPackage, Intent intent, String resolvedType,
            IVoiceInteractionSession voiceSession, IVoiceInteractor voiceInteractor,
            IBinder resultTo, String resultWho, int requestCode, int startFlags,
            ProfilerInfo profilerInfo, WaitResult outResult, Configuration config,
            Bundle options, boolean ignoreTargetSecurity, int userId,
            IActivityContainer iContainer, TaskRecord inTask) {
        // Refuse possible leaked file descriptors
        if (intent != null && intent.hasFileDescriptors()) {
            throw new IllegalArgumentException("File descriptors passed in Intent");
        }
        boolean componentSpecified = intent.getComponent() != null;

        // Don't modify the client's object!
        intent = new Intent(intent);

        // Collect information about the target of the Intent.
        //这里通过Intent的信息从PackageManagerService中获取ActivityInfo
        ActivityInfo aInfo =
                resolveActivity(intent, resolvedType, startFlags, profilerInfo, userId);

              ............................
            //我们去看下这个方法
            int res = startActivityLocked(caller, intent, resolvedType, aInfo,
                    voiceSession, voiceInteractor, resultTo, resultWho,
                    requestCode, callingPid, callingUid, callingPackage,
                    realCallingPid, realCallingUid, startFlags, options, ignoreTargetSecurity,
                    componentSpecified, null, container, inTask);
             .....................................
            return res;
        }
    }

final int startActivityLocked(IApplicationThread caller,
            Intent intent, String resolvedType, ActivityInfo aInfo,
            IVoiceInteractionSession voiceSession, IVoiceInteractor voiceInteractor,
            IBinder resultTo, String resultWho, int requestCode,
            int callingPid, int callingUid, String callingPackage,
            int realCallingPid, int realCallingUid, int startFlags, Bundle options,
            boolean ignoreTargetSecurity, boolean componentSpecified, ActivityRecord[] outActivity,
            ActivityContainer container, TaskRecord inTask) {
        .....................
        err = startActivityUncheckedLocked(r, sourceRecord, voiceSession, voiceInteractor,
                startFlags, true, options, inTask);
        .....................
        return err;
    }

startActivityUncheckedLocked.当前有没有Task可以用来执行这个Activity。由于r.launchMode的值不为ActivityInfo.LAUNCH_SINGLE_INSTANCE，因此，它通过findTaskLocked函数来查找存不存这样的Task，这里返回的结果是null，即taskTop为null，因此，需要创建一个新的Task来启动这个Activity。

当前在堆栈顶端的Activity是否就是即将要启动的Activity，有些情况下，如果即将要启动的Activity就在堆栈的顶端，那么，就不会重新启动这个Activity的别一个实例了。现在处理堆栈顶端的Activity是Launcher，与我们即将要启动的MainActivity不是同一个Activity，因此，这里不用进一步处理上述介绍的情况。
执行到这里，我们知道，要在一个新的Task里面来启动这个Activity了，于是新创建一个Task，并且将这个Task设置为ActivityRecord的task成员变量

final int startActivityUncheckedLocked(final ActivityRecord r, ActivityRecord sourceRecord,
            IVoiceInteractionSession voiceSession, IVoiceInteractor voiceInteractor, int startFlags,
            boolean doResume, Bundle options, TaskRecord inTask)

      ......................
      //ActivityStatck来创建一个Task，并且在这个函数中调用了addTask函数
      targetStack.addTask( task, !launchTaskBehind /* toTop */, false /* moving */);
      .......................
      targetStack.startActivityLocked(r, newTask, doResume, keepCurTransition, options);

回到ActivityStack.startActivityLocked

frameworks\base\services\core\java\com\android\server\am\ActivityStack.java

if (doResume) {  
    mStackSupervisor.resumeTopActivitiesLocked(this, r, options);  
} 

然后又回到ActivityStackSupervisor类，调用了其resumeTopActivitiesLocked方法。最后会调用resumeTopActivityInnerLocked函数，我们直接看这个函数：

 final boolean resumeTopActivityLocked(ActivityRecord prev, Bundle options) {
        if (mStackSupervisor.inResumeTopActivity) {
            // Don't even start recursing.
            return false;
        }

        boolean result = false;
        try {
            // Protect against recursion.
            mStackSupervisor.inResumeTopActivity = true;
            if (mService.mLockScreenShown == ActivityManagerService.LOCK_SCREEN_LEAVING) {
                mService.mLockScreenShown = ActivityManagerService.LOCK_SCREEN_HIDDEN;
                mService.updateSleepIfNeededLocked();
            }
            result = resumeTopActivityInnerLocked(prev, options);
        } finally {
            mStackSupervisor.inResumeTopActivity = false;
        }
        return result;
    }

private boolean resumeTopActivityInnerLocked(ActivityRecord prev, Bundle options){
      ...............................
      //在启动其他Activity之前，先调用onPause方法
         // We need to start pausing the current activity so the top one
        // can be resumed...
        boolean dontWaitForPause = (next.info.flags&ActivityInfo.FLAG_RESUME_WHILE_PAUSING) != 0;
        boolean pausing = mStackSupervisor.pauseBackStacks(userLeaving, true, dontWaitForPause);
        if (mResumedActivity != null) {
            if (DEBUG_STATES) Slog.d(TAG_STATES,
                    "resumeTopActivityLocked: Pausing " + mResumedActivity);
            pausing |= startPausingLocked(userLeaving, false, true, dontWaitForPause);
        }
      ...............................
ActivityStack lastStack = mStackSupervisor.getLastStack();
        if (next.app != null && next.app.thread != null) {
            if (DEBUG_SWITCH) Slog.v(TAG_SWITCH, "Resume running: " + next);
              //应用已经存在处理
              .....................
        } else {
            // Whoops, need to restart this activity!
            if (!next.hasBeenLaunched) {
                next.hasBeenLaunched = true;
            } else {
                if (SHOW_APP_STARTING_PREVIEW) {
                    mWindowManager.setAppStartingWindow(
                            next.appToken, next.packageName, next.theme,
                            mService.compatibilityInfoForPackageLocked(
                                    next.info.applicationInfo),
                            next.nonLocalizedLabel,
                            next.labelRes, next.icon, next.logo, next.windowFlags,
                            null, true);
                }
                if (DEBUG_SWITCH) Slog.v(TAG_SWITCH, "Restarting: " + next);
            }
            if (DEBUG_STATES) Slog.d(TAG_STATES, "resumeTopActivityLocked: Restarting " + next);
            mStackSupervisor.startSpecificActivityLocked(next, true, true);
        }

        if (DEBUG_STACK) mStackSupervisor.validateTopActivitiesLocked();
        return true;

      ...............................
}

再回到frameworks\base\services\core\java\com\android\server\am\ActivityStackSupervisor.java startSpecificActivityLocked方法中启动进程

// Is this activity's application already running?
        ProcessRecord app = mService.getProcessRecordLocked(r.processName,
                r.info.applicationInfo.uid, true);

        r.task.stack.setLaunchTime(r);

        if (app != null && app.thread != null) {
            try {
                if ((r.info.flags&ActivityInfo.FLAG_MULTIPROCESS) == 0
                        || !"android".equals(r.info.packageName)) {
                    // Don't add this if it is a platform component that is marked
                    // to run in multiple processes, because this is actually
                    // part of the framework so doesn't make sense to track as a
                    // separate apk in the process.
                    app.addPackage(r.info.packageName, r.info.applicationInfo.versionCode,
                            mService.mProcessStats);
                }
                realStartActivityLocked(r, app, andResume, checkConfig);
                return;
            } catch (RemoteException e) {
                Slog.w(TAG, "Exception when starting activity "
                        + r.intent.getComponent().flattenToShortString(), e);
            }

            // If a dead object exception was thrown -- fall through to
            // restart the application.
        }

        mService.startProcessLocked(r.processName, r.info.applicationInfo, true, 0,
                "activity", r.intent.getComponent(), false, false, true);

然后由ActivityManagerService向SystemServer请求启动进程，zygote通过Socket服务端fork进程然后调用ActivityThread.main创建应用程序进程。