Android : Data from shared ACTION_SEND retained when open app from Recent tab

Question

My application's subscribing incoming ACTION_SEND data from another app.

It works as well when I shared a text from another app into my app. But in case of finishing my app then re-opening it from Recent tab, the ACTION_SEND data keep retaining.

I expected that shared data is cleared when my app is finished. How to resolve this?

This is my snippet code:

if (Intent.ACTION_SEND == action && type != null) {
    if ("text/plain" == type) {
        val sharedText = intent.getStringExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT)
        if (sharedText != null && URLUtil.isValidUrl(sharedText)) {
            sharedUrl = sharedText
        }
    }
}

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 12 '20 at 12:47

You are seeing this phenomenon:

https://stackoverflow.com/a/19820057/769265

The linked question is related to "extras" in the Intent, but the behaviour is the same. I've explained what's happening and offered a few options to deal with the problem in the linked answer.

Android : Data from shared ACTION_SEND retained when open app from Recent tab

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