Restart app programmatically?

Question

I need to restart the app programmatically. My launcher activity is called 'Login' and after login, the main activity is called 'Main'. From within the main activity I want to restart the app. So I have the following:

Intent i = getBaseContext().getPackageManager().getLaunchIntentForPackage(getBaseContext().getPackageName());
i.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_TOP);
startActivity(i);

This will show the 'Login' activity, however when I press back I'm returned back to the previous activity.

Is there a better way to really restart the app?

see this question http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6609414/howto-programatically-restart-android-app — Vinay Pandravada, Dec 03 '15 at 11:46

score 25 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 03 '15 at 11:42

Try below code

Intent i = getBaseContext().getPackageManager().
           getLaunchIntentForPackage(getBaseContext().getPackageName());
i.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_TOP);
i.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK);
startActivity(i);

And another thing before calling your second Activity call

finish();

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 03 '15 at 11:44

2

Try this

call finish()

Intent i = getBaseContext().getPackageManager().getLaunchIntentForPackage(getBaseContext().getPackageName());
i.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_TOP);
startActivity(i);
finish();

answered Dec 03 '15 at 11:44

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Great, this really works – Pedro Machado Feb 14 '21 at 04:17

Restart app programmatically?

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