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Let there be Activity B that can be opened, and can further start more Activities. But, user should not encounter it when navigating back in task activities. The simplest solution is to set the attribute noHistory to true for that <activity> tag in AndroidManifest.xml: <activity a...

Assume an application with a MainActivity which can call the Next Activity using a button click. public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity { private final String LOG_TAG = MainActivity.class.getSimpleName(); @Override protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { ...

Launch mode defines the behaviour of new or existing activity in the task. There are possible launch modes: standard singleTop singleTask singleInstance It should be defined in android manifest in <activity/> element as android:launchMode attribute. <activity android:launchM...

Activity class takes care of creating a window for you in which you can place your UI with setContentView. There are three setContentView methods: setContentView(int layoutResID) - Set the activity content from a layout resource. setContentView(View view) - Set the activity content to an explic...

If you want to clear your current Activity stack and launch a new Activity (for example, logging out of the app and launching a log in Activity), there appears to be two approaches. 1. Target (API >= 16) Calling finishAffinity() from an Activity 2. Target (11 <= API < 16) Intent intent ...

First define an ExitActivity in the AndroidManifest.xml <activity android:name="com.your_example_app.activities.ExitActivity" android:autoRemoveFromRecents="true" android:theme="@android:style/Theme.NoDisplay" /> Afterwards the ExitA...

Up navigation is done in android by adding android:parentActivityName="" in Manifest.xml to the activity tag. Basically with this tag you tell the system about the parent activity of a activity. How is it done? <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET" ...