Unable to close all activities on android eclipse

Question

Assume i have four classes.Each class is having a button to do screen switching from one page to another page,well its working fine.But now im trying to close all the activi

Answer 1

Simply try this. Consider your Class3.java is your last Activitiy And, in Button of next use below code -

Intent intent = new Intent(currentActivity.this, XitActivity.class); // instead of XitActivity use your first activity
intent.setFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_TOP);
intent.putExtra("EXIT", true);
startActivity(intent);

And, in your Xit_demoActivity's onCreate() use below code -

if (getIntent().getBooleanExtra("EXIT", false)) {
    finish();
}

Hope this will helps you to exit you from all activities.

Answer 2

I would insist to create an BaseActivity with a BroadCastReceiver that will notify when you want to finish all the Activities and extend all the Activity classes with this BaseActivity,

public static final String ACTION_FINISH = "ACTION_FINISH";
public class BaseActivity extends Activity {

public void onCreate(Bundle bundle, int resourceId) {
    super.onCreate(bundle);
    registerReceiver(finishActivitiesReceiver, 
                                          new IntentFilter(ACTION_FINISH));
}

protected void onDestroy() {
    super.onDestroy();
    unregisterReceiver(finishActivitiesReceiver);
}

BroadcastReceiver finishActivitiesReceiver = new BroadcastReceiver() {

        @Override
        public void onReceive(Context context, Intent intent) {
            finish();
        }
    };
}

Then you can just send BroadCast when you want to close all Activities using

sendBroadcast(new Intent(BaseActivity.ACTION_FINISH));

Answer 3

You should not do this. If you want to open home screen or previous app screen. You can simply call

moveTaskToBack(boolean bool);

it will send your app to background. or if you want to not have class1 2 and 3 in stack you can use excludeFromRecent flag in manifest decl's of activities.

This thread got thousands of views, for the same issue. have a look on it and make a understanding.

Is quitting an application frowned upon?

Answer 4

On the click of button in Class 3 write this:

Intent intent=new Intent(Class3.this,Class1.class);
intent.setFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_TOP);
startActivity(intent);