How to launch an Activity without a UI?

Question

Is it in any way possible to launch an activity from the main function without having a UI? i.e. is there a way to create a sort of \"wrapper\" around another activity, i.e.

Answer 1

Just in case you are using Android 6.0+ or Target SDK is 23+, having a theme android:theme = "@android:style/Theme.NoDisplay" will lead to a crash with error did not call finish() prior to onResume() completing. This in fact is a bug recognised by Google developers here.

So it is recommended to use an activity with following theme as a workaround.

android:theme = "@android:style/Theme.Translucent.NoTitleBar"