Close application and launch home screen on Android

Question

I have two different activities. The first launches the second one. In the second activity, I call System.exit(0) in order to force the application to close, bu

Answer 1

The easiest way for achieving this is given below (without affecting Android's native memory management. There is no process killing involved).

1. Launch an activity using this Intent:

   Intent intent = new Intent(this, FinActivity.class);
   intent.setFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_TOP);
   startActivity(intent);
   finish();
   

2. In the target activity FinActivity.class, call finish() in onCreate.

Steps Explained:

1. You create an intent that erases all other activities (FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_TOP) and delete the current activity.

2. The activity destroys itself. An alternative is that you can make an splash screen in finActivity. This is optional.