Clear the entire history stack and start a new activity on Android

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In API level 11 a new Intent Flag was added just for this: Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_TASK

Just to clarify, use this:

Java

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

Kotlin

intent.flags = Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK or Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_TASK

Unfortunately for API lvl <= 10, I haven’t yet found a clean solution to this.
The “DontHackAndroidLikeThis” solution is indeed pure hackery. You should not do that. 🙂

Edit:
As per @Ben Pearson‘s comment, for API <=10 now one can use IntentCompat class for the same. One can use IntentCompat.FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_TASK flag to clear task. So you can support pre API level 11 as well.

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