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

Try the following. It works for me.

ActivityManager am = (ActivityManager) this.getSystemService(ACTIVITY_SERVICE);
List taskInfo = am.getRunningTasks(1); 
ComponentName componentInfo = taskInfo.get(0).topActivity;
am.restartPackage(componentInfo.getPackageName());