Fail silently if a process trys to launch an acitvity for background user

Doing this so we don't break current apps. In the future we should
properly position the activity in the stack (i.e. behind all current
user activity/task) and not change the positioning of stacks.

Bug: 21801163
Bug: 13507605
Bug: 22929608
Change-Id: I979b6288e66f5b2ec2a6f22cb8d416e5c68109bd

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/core/java/android/app/Instrumentation.java b/core/java/android/app/Instrumentation.java
index c2d901d..69b8b95 100644
--- a/core/java/android/app/Instrumentation.java
+++ b/core/java/android/app/Instrumentation.java
@@ -1810,9 +1810,14 @@ public class Instrumentation {
                 throw new SecurityException(
                         "Starting under voice control not allowed for: " + intent);
             case ActivityManager.START_NOT_CURRENT_USER_ACTIVITY:
-                throw new SecurityException(
-                        "Not allowed to start background user activity that shouldn't be"
-                        + " displayed for all users.");
+                // Fail silently for this case so we don't break current apps.
+                // TODO(b/22929608): Instead of failing silently or throwing an exception,
+                // we should properly position the activity in the stack (i.e. behind all current
+                // user activity/task) and not change the positioning of stacks.
+                Log.e(TAG,
+                        "Not allowed to start background user activity that shouldn't be displayed"
+                        + " for all users. Failing silently...");
+                break;
             default:
                 throw new AndroidRuntimeException("Unknown error code "
                         + res + " when starting " + intent);