removing activity from Task manager stack in android

Question

I am working on and Android application. When my application is running and i press the recent applications button on the phone , Activity's onPause() method is called . Inside this onPause i call finish() . So the activity gets destroyed.

But its still visible in the recent applications list.

How do i make sure it is not listed in the recent applications list when i destroy my activity from onPause().

Why would you want to explicitly finish your app when the user puts it in the background? That's terrible. — Xaver Kapeller, Jan 20 '16 at 12:23

score 10 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:34

Try doing

<activity android:name=".MainActivity"
        android:excludeFromRecents="true" ...>

in your AndroidManifest.xml's activity declaration.

get more from official documentation

Whether or not the task initiated by this activity should be excluded from the list of recently used applications ("recent apps"). That is, when this activity is the root activity of a new task, this attribute determines whether the task should not appear in the list of recent apps. Set "true" if the task should be excluded from the list; set "false" if it should be included. The default value is "false".

when you want to have special properties for an Activity when starting it you supply special flags to the Intent. In this case FLAG_ACTIVITY_EXCLUDE_FROM_RECENTS.

Go through link.

i have tried with small example,yours working perfectly.I have not tried scenario basis. — learner, Jan 20 '16 at 12:54

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 16 '20 at 16:18

2

use finishAndRemoveTask() instead of finish() or finishAffinity()

answered Sep 16 '20 at 16:18

ayoub laaziz

1,196
9
12

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Jan 20 '16 at 12:22

0

The reason may be because only your activity is destroyed not the Application instance. Android awaits may be user open up the app again. To completely terminate application you can use for above API 16 this.finishAffinity() .

It will finish the current activity and all other under it. As doc says

Finish this activity as well as all activities immediately below it in the current task that have the same affinity

answered Jan 20 '16 at 12:22

theJango

1,100
10
22

yours is not working, still recent is retained the app – learner Jan 20 '16 at 12:55

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Sep 16 '20 at 16:57

0

use

finish();

when you move to the next activity then recent activity is finish

answered Sep 16 '20 at 16:57

Muhammad Asad

694
6
10

removing activity from Task manager stack in android

4 Answers4