[android] Finish all activities at a time

I have an application with multiple pages i.e., multiple activities and some of them remain open.

Is there a way to close all activities at once?

Use

finishAffinity ();

Instead of:

System.exit(); or finish();

it exit full application or all activity.

in LoginActivity

@Override
    public void onBackPressed() {
        Intent startMain = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_MAIN);
        startMain.addCategory(Intent.CATEGORY_HOME);
        startMain.setFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK);
        startActivity(startMain);
        finish();
        super.onBackPressed();
    }

You can try just finishAffinity() , its close all current activities to works on above v4.1

@Override
    public void onBackPressed(){
        MaterialAlertDialogBuilder alert = new MaterialAlertDialogBuilder(BorrowForm.this, MyTheme);
        alert.setTitle("Confirmation");
        alert.setCancelable(false);
        alert.setMessage("App will exit. Data will not be saved. Continue?");
        alert.setPositiveButton("Ok", new DialogInterface.OnClickListener() {
            @Override
            public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int which) {
                Toast toast = Toast.makeText(BorrowForm.this, "App terminated.", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT);
                toast.getView().setBackgroundColor(Color.parseColor("#273036"));
                toast.setGravity(Gravity.CENTER_HORIZONTAL,0,0);
                TextView toastMessage=(TextView) toast.getView().findViewById(android.R.id.message);
                toastMessage.setTextColor(Color.WHITE);
                toast.show();
                finishAffinity();
            }
        });
        alert.setNegativeButton("Cancel", new DialogInterface.OnClickListener() {
            @Override
            public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int which) {

            }
        });
        alert.setCancelable(false);
        alert.show();
    }

Problem with finishAffinity() is that only activities in your current task are closed, but activities with singleInstance launchMode and in other tasks are still opened and brought to the foreground after finishAffinity(). The problem with System.exit(0) is that you finish your App process with all background services and all allocated memory and this can lead to undesired side effects (e.g. not receiving notifications anymore).

Here are other two alternatives that solve both problems:

1. Use ActivityLifecycleCallbacks in you app class to register created activities and close them when needed: https://gist.github.com/sebaslogen/5006ec133243379d293f9d6221100ddb#file-myandroidapplication-kt-L10
2. In testing you can use ActivityLifecycleMonitorRegistry: https://github.com/sebaslogen/CleanGUITestArchitecture/blob/master/app/src/androidTest/java/com/neoranga55/cleanguitestarchitecture/util/ActivityFinisher.java#L15

I was struggling with the same problem. Opening the about page and calling finish(); from there wasn't closing the app instead was going to previous activity and I wanted to close the app from the about page itself.

This is the code which worked for me:

Intent startMain = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_MAIN); 
startMain.addCategory(Intent.CATEGORY_HOME); 
startMain.setFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK); 
startActivity(startMain); 
finish();

Hope this helps.

You can store a boolean flag to represent if all activities should be finished or not (more preferred in your shared preferences) then onStart() method of each activity should have something like:

SharedPreferences pref=PreferenceManager.getDefaultSharedPreferences(this);
boolean needToDestroyFlag=pref.getBoolean("destroyFlag", false);
if(needToDestroyFlag)
{
    finish();
}else
{
    //...
}

Obviously you can set this flag like below when ever you need to finish all activities (in the current activity) after doing so you can call finish() method on current activity that will result to terminate current activity and pop activities from stack up one by one, the onStart() method of each one executes and causes to terminate it:

SharedPreferences.Editor editor=PreferenceManager.getDefaultSharedPreferences(this).edit();
editor.putBoolean("destroyFlag", true);
editor.apply();

If you use the method that @letsnurture suggested, you'll be faced with the question asked by @gumuruh.

close the app

Intent intent = new Intent(getApplicationContext(), Splash_Screen.class);
                intent.setFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_TOP);
                intent.putExtra("EXIT", true);
                startActivity(intent);

put this in the oncreate and onResume of the very first activity that is opened. ex. is on splash screen activity

if (getIntent().getBooleanExtra("EXIT", false)) {
            this.finish();
            System.exit(0);
        }

There are three solution for clear activity history.

1) You can write finish() at the time of start new activity through intent.

2) Write android:noHistory="true" in all <activity> tag in Androidmanifest.xml file, using this if you are open new activity and you don't write finish() at that time previous activity is always finished, after write your activity look like this.

<activity
    android:name=".Splash_Screen_Activity"
    android:label="@string/app_name"
    android:noHistory="true">

</activity>

3) write system.exit(0) for exit from the application.

For API 16+, use

finishAffinity();

For lower, use

ActivityCompat.finishAffinity(YourActivity.this)

moveTaskToBack(true);

//add this to the click listner

If rooted:

Runtime.getRuntime().exec("su -c service call activity 42 s16 com.example.your_app");

None of the other answers worked for me. But I researched some more and finally got the answer.

You actually asked to close the app as I needed. So, add following code:

finishAffinity();

Following two flags worked for me. They will clear all the previous activities and start a new one

  Intent intent = new Intent(getApplicationContext(), MyDetails.class);
  intent.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_TASK);
  intent.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK);
  startActivity(intent);

Hope this helps.

You can Use finishAffinity() method that will finish the current activity and all parent activities. But it works only for API 16+.

API 16+ use:

finishAffinity();

Below API 16 use:

ActivityCompat.finishAffinity(this); //with v4 support library

To exit whole app:

finishAffinity(); // Close all activites
System.exit(0);  // closing files, releasing resources

The best solution i have found, which is compatible with devices having API level <11

Intent intent = new Intent(getApplicationContext(), HomeActivity.class);
ComponentName cn = intent.getComponent();
Intent mainIntent = IntentCompat.makeRestartActivityTask(cn);
startActivity(mainIntent);

This solution requires Android support library

You can use the following code:

Intent i = new Intent(OldActivity.this, NewActivity.class);

i.setFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK | Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_TASK);

startActivity(i);

If you're looking for a solution that seems to be more "by the book" and methodologically designed (using a BroadcastReceiver), you better have a look at the following link: http://www.hrupin.com/2011/10/how-to-finish-all-activities-in-your-android-application-through-simple-call.

A slight change is required in the proposed implementation that appears in that link - you should use the sendStickyBroadcast(Intent) method (don't forget to add the BROADCAST_STICKY permission to your manifest) rather than sendBroadcast(Intent), in order to enable your paused activities to be able to receive the broadcast and process it, and this means that you should also remove that sticky broadcast while restarting your application by calling the removeStickyBroadcast(Intent) method in your opening Activity's onCreate() method.

Although the above mentioned startActivity(...) based solutions, at first glance - seem to be very nice, elegant, short, fast and easy to implement - they feel a bit "wrong" (to start an activity - with all the possible overhead and resources that may be required and involved in it, just in order to kill it?...)

There is a finishAffinity() method in Activity that will finish the current activity and all parent activities, but it works only in Android 4.1 or higher.

For API 16+, use

finishAffinity();

For lower (Android 4.1 lower), use

ActivityCompat.finishAffinity(YourActivity.this);

i am starter in java/android, may be this simple solution help for you

FIRST, create static class

public class ActivityManager {

    static Activity  _step1;
    static Activity _step2;
    static Activity _step3;

    public static void setActivity1(Activity activity)
    {
        _step1 = activity;
    }

    public static void setActivity2(Activity activity)
    {
        _step2 = activity;
    }

    public static void setActivity3(Activity activity)
    {
        _step3 = activity;
    }

    public static void finishAll()
    {
        _step1.finish();
        _step2.finish();
        _step3.finish();
    }

}

THEN when you run new activity save link to your manager(in step 1):

ActivityManager.setActivity1(this);
AddValuesToSharedPreferences();
Intent intent = new Intent(Step1.this, Step2.class);
startActivity(intent);

AND THEN in your last step finish all:

 public void OkExit(View v) throws IOException {
        ActivityManager.finishAll();
    }