Restarting Android application after process is killed

Question

When my application is idle, Android kills the process. If user reopens the application after some time, only the top Activity is created - this is a problem for me because the

Answer 1

Just identify that your Application is being launched after it was previously destroyed by Android, you could do this by keeping a variable in a custom Application class, and set it to true after your applicaiton is initialized. So when the applicaction is re-launched, this flag is false, and then just make an Intent to launch your main Activity specifying FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_TOP :

Intent reLaunchMain=new Intent(this,MainActivity.class);
reLaunchMain.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_TOP);
startActivity(reLaunchMain);