Activity remains on screen after another activity is called from a service and finished on Android

Question

I have a service that is listening for some events.

When that event happens, it fires a screen by startActivity(intent)

When the user finishes doing something on that screen, the code calls finish()

but instead of 'closing' the complete application, is shows the main/launcher activity.

any way to go around this?

thanks

Answer 1

You can tell the main activity to finish() right before you call startActivity(). This way, when the screen activity ends, the application will have no running activities and so will exit.

Alteratively, you could use startActivityForResult() instead, and have the main activity call finish() when it is told that the screen activity has ended.