finish() not working as expected

Question

As I'm creating an android application in which first I've created main activity, then I've added splash activity along with the one normal activity.

So my problem is whenever I click on exit in my app it closes the main activity and returns that one normal activity in splash activity. I am using finish(); on exit button which is present in main activity.

So how can I exit the app which comes to android launcher screen

I've also tried creating new intent with Action Main but its only minimizing the app I want to close it

MainActivity.class

if (id == R.id.exit) {
            AlertDialog.Builder builder = new AlertDialog.Builder(homeActivity.this);
            builder.setMessage("Do You Want To Exit?").setCancelable(false)
                    .setPositiveButton("Yes", new DialogInterface.OnClickListener() {
                        @Override
                        public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int which) {
                            finish();
                        }
                    }).setNegativeButton("No", new DialogInterface.OnClickListener() {
                @Override
                public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int which) {
                    dialog.cancel();
                }
            });
            AlertDialog alert = builder.create();
            alert.setIcon(R.drawable.ic_error_outline_black_24dp);
            alert.setTitle("Exit!!");
            alert.show();
      }

Possible duplicate of [How to exit from the application and show the home screen?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3226495/how-to-exit-from-the-application-and-show-the-home-screen) — Jakub Holovsky, Jan 06 '17 at 08:16
dismiss your splash activity when you start main activity from it. — Pushpendra, Jan 06 '17 at 08:17
it is happening because first activity is still in the stack — Prabs, Jan 06 '17 at 08:19
This issue is not with Your MainActivity. While pushing your MainActivity, need to finish the SplashScreen and use tags as specified by @Trucket — Sreehari, Jan 06 '17 at 09:40

score 6 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 06 '17 at 09:04

When starting the MainAcitivity from SplashActivity set flags in intent as below and call finish() on SplashAcitivty

Intent intent = new Intent(context, MainActivity.class);
intent.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_TOP | Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK);
startActivity(intent);
finish();

score 3 · Answer 2 · edited Jan 06 '17 at 08:21

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you can set android:excludeFromRecents="true" and android:noHistory="true" in you android Manifest file for the splash activity.

edited Jan 06 '17 at 08:21

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answered Jan 06 '17 at 08:19

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score 0 · Answer 3 · edited Jan 06 '17 at 09:08

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Try adding flag "Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_TOP" while you launch MainActivity from your SplashScreenActivity, as below:

intent.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_TOP | Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK);

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answered Jan 06 '17 at 08:34

KayPee

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i have tried but its not working in following way i have added `Intent inst = new Intent(ipInfo.this,homeActivity.class); inst.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_TOP | Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK); startActivity(inst);` – Nilesh Indalkar Jan 06 '17 at 09:44
after starting the activity i have set `finish();` then it works as i expected thanks :) – Nilesh Indalkar Jan 06 '17 at 09:47

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Jan 06 '17 at 09:33

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add this things in splash while navigating splash to mainActivity

intent.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_TOP | Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK);
finish();

answered Jan 06 '17 at 09:33

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