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

I am using AppCompatActivity and the solutions provided in this SO did not solve my problem. Here is what worked for me.

I added the following in my styles.xml.

Then, for any activity that I want to disable the display, I modified like so:

Cheers!