# Cannot re-show meeting when app is backgrounded on Android

**URL:** <https://devforum.zoom.us/t/cannot-re-show-meeting-when-app-is-backgrounded-on-android/126195>\
**Category:** Meeting SDK\
**Created:** [February 7, 2025, 11:40pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/cannot-re-show-meeting-when-app-is-backgrounded-on-android/126195 "2025-02-07T23:40:16Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![tommypomelo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/devforum.zoom.us/tommypomelo/32/53203_2.png) [@tommypomelo](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/tommypomelo)\
**Post date:** [February 7, 2025, 11:40pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/cannot-re-show-meeting-when-app-is-backgrounded-on-android/126195/1 "2025-02-07T23:40:16Z")

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**Meeting SDK Type and Version**  
@zoom/meetingsdk-react-native, 6.2.10

**Description**  
We are noticing odd behavior when using the Zoom Meeting SDK in React Native on Android phones and the app is backgrounded.

Specifically, these are the reproduction steps:

- Open our app on Android
- App calls the following to join the meeting, and the meeting screen successfully shows

```auto
await zoom.joinMeeting({
  userName: name,
  meetingNumber: meetingId,
  password: password,
})

```

- Hit phone’s home button to send app to background
- Re-open app, meeting screen is not there, and if we call `joinMeeting` again, nothing happens

At this point, there is a persistent element in the phone’s notification drawer that says “Meeting in progress”. If the user presses that “Meeting in progress” notification, the meeting screen re-appears, but there seems to be no other way to do that after the app is backgrounded.

There is even different behavior if you were to hit the phones back button when the meeting is joined - this causes the meet to go into picture-in-picture mode.

Is this intended behavior? Is there a way to forcibly re-show the meeting when the app enters the foreground again?

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**Author:** ![Sudharsan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/devforum.zoom.us/sudharsan/32/50287_2.png) [@Sudharsan](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/Sudharsan)\
**Post date:** [May 7, 2025, 9:22am UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/cannot-re-show-meeting-when-app-is-backgrounded-on-android/126195/2 "2025-05-07T09:22:33Z")

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Hey did you find any solution for this?

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**Author:** ![donte.zoom](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/devforum.zoom.us/donte.zoom/32/24412_2.png) [@donte.zoom](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/donte.zoom)\
**Post date:** [May 7, 2025, 6:53pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/cannot-re-show-meeting-when-app-is-backgrounded-on-android/126195/3 "2025-05-07T18:53:48Z")

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@tommypomelo ,

Thank you for reporting this @tommypomelo ! Are you seeing this on a specific Android device or is it reproducible with any device?

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**Author:** ![ary](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/67e7ee/32.png) [@ary](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/ary)\
**Post date:** [May 8, 2025, 6:32am UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/cannot-re-show-meeting-when-app-is-backgrounded-on-android/126195/4 "2025-05-08T06:32:14Z")

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Have you found any solution, as facing the same issue while meeting with my mentor.

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**Author:** ![Sudharsan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/devforum.zoom.us/sudharsan/32/50287_2.png) [@Sudharsan](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/Sudharsan)\
**Post date:** [June 13, 2025, 4:35am UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/cannot-re-show-meeting-when-app-is-backgrounded-on-android/126195/5 "2025-06-13T04:35:27Z")

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its reproducible on all android devices

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**Author:** ![tommypomelo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/devforum.zoom.us/tommypomelo/32/53203_2.png) [@tommypomelo](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/tommypomelo)\
**Post date:** [June 13, 2025, 5:22am UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/cannot-re-show-meeting-when-app-is-backgrounded-on-android/126195/6 "2025-06-13T05:22:51Z")

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We were testing on a Samsung Galaxy A15 but it was reproducible on other devices like a Google Pixel 9.

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**Author:** ![donte.zoom](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/devforum.zoom.us/donte.zoom/32/24412_2.png) [@donte.zoom](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/donte.zoom)\
**Post date:** [July 7, 2025, 5:28pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/cannot-re-show-meeting-when-app-is-backgrounded-on-android/126195/7 "2025-07-07T17:28:06Z")

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@tommypomelo , @Sudharsan @ary ,

Are you still seeing this behavior on your end ?