FLAG_ACTIVITY_EXCLUDE_FROM_RECENTS excludes whole application, not only the Activity

Question

I have a Notification which starts an Activity. After a long press on home button and selecting my app, I want to start my main Activity again, and not this Activity started

Answer 1

It's not clear to me what you want.

"How can I have my app in the recents, but have the main Activity started?"

If you want to always start one activity using the long home-press, you can define your activity as singleTask in the manifest.

That way, when you select the shortcut in the long press HOME, it will always show the MAIN, singleTask activity. I say this because I used this behavior before once. ;-)

I believe that by using this you can still start an activity from the notification normally, using, say, Intents.

In the activity tag:

        android:launchMode="singleTask"
        >