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

You can also specify noHistory = "true" in the tag for first activity or finish the first activity as soon as you start the second one(as David said).

AFAIK, "force close" kills the process which hosts the JVM in which your application runs and System.exit() terminates the JVM running your application instance. Both are form of abrupt terminations and not advisable for normal application flow.

Just as catching exceptions to cover logic flows that a program might undertake, is not advisable.