How do I programmatically “restart” an Android app?

Question

Firstly, I know that one should not really kill/restart an application on Android. In my use case, I want to factory-reset my application in a specific case where a server s

Answer 1

Ok, I refactored my app and I will not finish A automatically. I let this run always and finish it through the onActivityResult event. In this way I can use the FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_TOP + FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK flags to get what I want:

public class A extends Activity {

    @Override
    protected void onActivityResult(int requestCode, int resultCode, Intent data) {
        super.onActivityResult(requestCode, resultCode, data);
        finish();
    }

    protected void onResume() {
        super.onResume();
        // ...
        if (loggedIn) {
            startActivityForResult(new Intent(this, MainActivity.class), 0);
        } else {
            startActivityForResult(new Intent(this, LoginActivity.class), 0);
        }
    }
}

and in the ResultReceiver

@Override
public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int which) {
    MyApp.factoryReset();
    Intent i = new Intent(MyApp.getContext(), A.class);
    i.setFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_TOP);
    i.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK);
    MyApp.getContext().startActivity(i);
}

Thanks anyway!