How to finish every activity on the stack except the first in Android

Question

I\'m porting an iPhone app to Android and I can\'t seem to find a means to pop each activity on the stack except the root activity.

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Answer 1

Look at http://developer.android.com/reference/android/content/Intent.html#FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_TOP: you can startActivity on the root activity with this flag, and it will blow away all activities above it. You should read the docs carefully about the intent delivery behavior.