How to clear the activity stack and bring a running activity to foreground in Android?

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I am starting activities(one or more) of another android application from one of the activities(Activity A) of my application to run some test scripts. After running, I want Activity A to be brought to the foreground the activities of the other application to be closed.

I am trying to achieve this by setting the launchMode of Activity A as singleTop in the manifest and using this snippet:

Intent intent = new Intent(getApplication(), ActivityA.class);
intent.setFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NO_ANIMATION | Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_TOP); //Clear Top Flag
startActivity(intent);

I have also tried using Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_TASK | Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK when launching ActivityA which will clear the entire task and create a new instance of ActivityA whereas I want the running instance of ActivityA to be brought to foreground

I have also tried to implement code samples from this link

Thanks in advance

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12074980/bring-application-to-front-after-user-clicks-on-home-button — m0skit0, Mar 16 '15 at 12:09
@m0skit0 - This won't work for me as **Activity A** is not the root activity for my app. — Narasimha, Mar 16 '15 at 12:26
I don't think it matters if it's the root activity or not. The activity is specified in the `Intent`. — m0skit0, Mar 16 '15 at 12:28
@m0skit0 - The flags `Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK | Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_SINGLE_TOP` didn't work for me. — Narasimha, Mar 16 '15 at 12:41

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 13 '18 at 14:27

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intent.setFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_REORDER_TO_FRONT | Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_SINGLE_TOP | Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_TOP);

This will bring the specified activity to top of the stack and clear rest of them.

answered Apr 13 '18 at 14:27

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