Finish previous activites without starting new activity, android?

Question

I have 5 activities in my application. On each activity there is a button to take it to the next activity. So the stack of the activity is like :

Activity 1->Activity 2->Activity 3->Activity 4->Activity 5

On the 5th Activity there is a button with which I just want to clear the previous activities. I am not starting any new activity here.

intent.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_TOP);

It cannot be done with this, because a new activity has be started.

What can be done for this?

means you don't wanna start any new activity in activity 5 right ? you just wanna clear stack which us activity 1,2,3,4 — Jitesh Mohite, Nov 17 '16 at 07:09
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3473168/clear-the-entire-history-stack-and-start-a-new-activity-on-android?noredirect=1&lq=1 — SoulRayder, Nov 17 '16 at 07:42
@ReadyAndroid it also finishes the current activity which I don't want — WISHY, Nov 17 '16 at 09:24

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 18 '16 at 07:35

I prefer to use EventBus to solve the problems.

The schema:
Each activity which is needed to be close needs to wait for a close event. When button close is clicked, the close event will be sent and every activity waiting for the close event will be closed.

How to achieve:

Make a class for an event for closing activity, CloseEvent. CloseEvent is a simple class:
```
public static class CloseEvent{}
```

Register each activity for receiving Event from EventBus.

@Override
public void onStart() {
  super.onStart();
  EventBus.getDefault().register(this);
}

@Override
public void onDestroy() {
  super.onStop();
  EventBus.getDefault().unregister(this);
}

Subscribe each activity to receive CloseEvent.

@Subscribe 
public void onMessageEvent(CourierOrderTimeEvent event) {
  this.finish() // Close the activity.
}

Sent the CloseEvent when the button is clicked.

button.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {
  public void onClick(View v) {
    EventBus.getDefault().post(new CloseEvent());
  }
});

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 17 '16 at 09:39

instead of using startActivity() you can use startActivityForResult()

suppose from activity1 to activity5 you are lauching activity using startActivityForResult()

   Intent intent = new Intent(Activity1.this, Activity2.class);
    startActivityForResult(intent, 1);



 @Override
    protected void onActivityResult(int requestCode, int resultCode, Intent data) {
        super.onActivityResult(requestCode, resultCode, data);
        Log.d(TAG, requestCode + "");
        finish();
    }

in Activity2 you can use

startActivityForResult(new Intent(Activity2.this, MainActivity3.class), 2);

 @Override
    protected void onActivityResult(int requestCode, int resultCode, Intent data) {
        super.onActivityResult(requestCode, resultCode, data);
        Log.d(TAG, requestCode + "");
        Intent intent=new Intent();
        setResult(1,intent);
        finish();//finishing activity
    }

like that till activity 4

in Activity 5 when you click button as mention above you can use below code.

Intent intent=new Intent();
setResult(5,intent);

please let me know if are able to solve your problem

Finish previous activites without starting new activity, android?

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