How to close Android application in Kotlin

Question

In JAVA we can close the application. We trying to develop skills with Kotlin and feel we are using the correct syntax to close the application. The issue is that the code only works if you close the app before going to the Second Page and back to the MainActivity which is the launcher activity code below

    fun onTV(view: View){
    exitProcess()
}

private fun exitProcess() {
    //finish()
    System.exit(-1)
}

Both finish and System.exit(-1) work if selected first without navigating to PageTwoActivity

The onTV is the onClick property of a TextView My guess is that we need to clear the Stack buy setting Flags so the question is what is the syntax for this in Kotlin? Remember we are on the launcher page MainActivity. Do we need an Intent for results?

Ok I tried this code with no improvement

    val intent = Intent(context, MainActivity::class.java)
    intent.flags = Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_TOIntent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK
    finish()

We are close here is the code as it stands now the issue is still that while this will close the app if you do NOT navigate to the PageTwo and click the button to close the app right after it starts

    fun onTV(view: View){
    onBYE()
}

 fun onBYE() {
     exitProcess(-1)
 }

So I guess the question is how to clear PageTwo from the stack when onBYE is executed ?

Answer 1

Grendel here is the absolute easiest two ways to close the Kotlin App the first way will open the app on PageTwo when it is reloaded not elegant but I included on the chance that someone has a Splash Screen

     moveTaskToBack(true);
     exitProcess(-1)

The second way is so simple and old you are going to scream It will close the Kotlin App and when reloaded the MainActivity is shown first

finishAffinity()

I tested this with Nexus 9 API 26 I do not have a Samsung Galaxy S2 but feel free to mail me one ha ha

Answer 2

There's two solutions on this, working on yours code:

val intent = Intent(context, MainActivity::class.java)
intent.flags = Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_TOIntent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK
intent.putBooleanExtra(MainActivity.FINISH, true)
finish()

Declare FINISH as val FINISH = "finish_key_extra"

And add this code at onCreate of MainActivity

super.onCreate(state)
boolean finish = getIntent().getBooleanExtra(FINISH, false) //default false if not set by argument
if(finish) {
    finish();
    return;
}

Since you using CLEAR_TOP and NEW_TASK you will have only that one activity on stack, so you finish it by sending a argument.

The other solution I mentioned is starting every Activity on your application with startActivityForResult(intent, REQUEST_CODE_X)

And at on every activity on application also have this code: (declare a int FINISH_APP to be used as result code somewhere)

void onActivityResult(int requestCode, int resultCode, Bundle result) {
     if(requestCode == AppIntents.REQUEST_CODE_X)
         if(resultCode == FINISH_APP){
             setResult(FINISH_APP);
             finish();
         }
}

And at any point you want to start closing the app you call:

             setResult(FINISH_APP);
             finish();

Note that the FINISH_APP is declared different from RESULT_OK, RESULT_CANCELED so it can still be used by your app.

Note: I'm a Java dev, not kotlin