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Jahir Fiquitiva
Jahir Fiquitiva

Reputation: 1509

Start another app activity removing it from recents list

I'm trying to start an activity of an app (that is not mine and which code I don't know and/or can't edit), from my app.

What I want to do, is that after starting that activity (let's call it OtherAppActivity) neither my activity (let's call it MyAppActivity) nor OtherAppActivity remain shown in the recent apps list.

My current code:

AndroidManifest.xml

<activity
                android:name=".activities.Launch"
                android:noHistory="true"
                android:exported="true"
                android:excludeFromRecents="true"
                android:launchMode="singleInstance"
                android:theme="@style/EmptyActivity">

MyAppActivity.java

// Intent to launch OtherAppActivity
Intent intent = new Intent();
            intent.setClassName(PKG, ACTIVITY);
            intent.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_TOP);
            intent.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_TASK);
            intent.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NO_HISTORY);
            startActivityForResult(intent, 88);

I have done a lot of search, but none of the answers I have found, have worked for me.

I hope you understand what I want to do, and can help me. Thanks in advance.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 413

Answers (1)

timbremer
timbremer

Reputation: 143

For your app, try adding android:excludeFromRecents="true" to your application tag in the manifest file and for the intent try setting this flag: intent.setFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_EXCLUDE_FROM_RECENTS);

Upvotes: 2

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