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user291701
user291701

Reputation: 39681

Clear all activities in a task?

I have a splash screen activity, then a login activity. My history stack looks like:

SplashActivity
LoginActivity

when the user successfully logs in via LoginActivity, I want to start WelcomeActivity, but clear the entire stack:

SplashActivity
LoginActivity // launches WelcomeActivity ->
WelcomeActivity

// but now all three are in the history stack, while I only
// want WelcomeActivity in the stack at this point.

Is there some flag I can use to do that?

// LoginActivity.java
Intent intent = new Intent(this, WelcomeActivity.class);
intent.addFlag(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_TASK);
startActivity(intent);
finish();

Not sure if using the FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_TASK will clear out all activities in my task or not. I can do this 'manually' by unwinding the stack by using startActivityForResult() calls, but will be more fragile and more code to maintain.

Thanks

Upvotes: 52

Views: 64204

Answers (7)

Amirhossein Ghasemi
Amirhossein Ghasemi

Reputation: 22138

Just do this to clear all previous activity in a task:

finishAffinity() // if you are in fragment use activity.finishAffinity()
Intent intent = new Intent(this, DestActivity.class); // with all flags you want
startActivity(intent)

Upvotes: 2

Joo Young Jung
Joo Young Jung

Reputation: 126

  • In case that all of three activity is involved in the same app(same taskAffinity), you can pick either 1,2 or 3 below. otherwise you should pick 1,2 below.

    1. If you don't want to return back SplashActivity from LoginActivity, you can define activity attribute noHistory in AndroidManifest.xml or you can set FLAG_ACTIVITY_NO_HISTORY into the intent to launch SplashActivity. if SplashActivity is started from Launcher, you should pick way to set activity attribute noHistory.

    2. If you don't want to return back LoginActivity from WelcomeActivity, you can use either activity attribute noHistory or FLAG_ACTIVITY_NO_HISTORY like number 1 above.

    3. If you want to clear back stack on specific situation, you can use FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_TASK in conjunction with FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK(FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_TASK always must be used in conjunction with FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK). But, if the activity being started is involved in other app(i.e different taskAffinity), the task will be launched other task after the task is cleared, not current task. so make sure that the activity being launched is involved in the same app(taskAffinity).

Upvotes: 1

Yuntao
Yuntao

Reputation: 665

Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NO_HISTORY can work in your case too if you do not want the activity on the history stack.

Upvotes: 7

Pancho C.
Pancho C.

Reputation: 133

finish() removes the activity from the stack. So, if you start LoginActivity and call finish() on SplashActivity, and then you do exact the same to start WelcomeActivity you will get the desired behaviour. No need to use extra flags.

Upvotes: 8

user4972508
user4972508

Reputation: 

Intent intent = new Intent(this, NextActivity.class);
intent.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK |
                    IntentCompat.FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_TASK);
startActivity(intent);

Upvotes: 11

Daniel De León
Daniel De León

Reputation: 13639

Use android:noHistory="true" on the splash activity in the manifest file. 

<activity 
android:name=".activity.SplashActivity" 
android:theme="@style/theme_noActionBar" 
android:noHistory="true">

Upvotes: 9

Joseph Earl
Joseph Earl

Reputation: 23432

Yes that should work fine. You could use:

  • FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_TOP
  • FLAG_ACTIVITY_SINGLE_TOP
  • FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_TASK
  • FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK

which ensures that if an instance is already running and is not top then anything on top of it will be cleared and it will be used, instead of starting a new instance (this useful once you've gone Welcome activity -> Activity A and then you want to get back to Welcome from A, but the extra flags shouldn't affect your case above).

Upvotes: 43

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