Started activity from home key screen

Question

I have a background Service which starts an activity,

Intent i = new Intent(this, MyActivity.class);
i.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK);
startActivity(i);

After destroying this Activity and restart it over the "long press home key menu", this Activity starts again. But I want to start the main activity instead. How could I realise this?

Answer 1

Could you explain in more detail? If I understand your problem try setting the FLAG_ACTIVITY_NO_HISTORY.

Alternatively a manual solution would be to check the FLAG_ACTIVITY_LAUNCHED_FROM_HISTORY on the intent in MyActivity and launch to the main activity if you see this flag set. The following code should do that:

if ((getIntent().getFlags() & FLAG_ACTIVITY_LAUNCHED_FROM_HISTORY) > 0) {
   activity.startActivity(new Intent(context , MainActivity.class).addFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_TOP));    
}