Remove App from Recent Apps Programmatically

Remove app from recent apps programmatically

Yes, generally when you want to have special properties for an Activity when starting it you supply special flags to the Intent. In this case FLAG_ACTIVITY_EXCLUDE_FROM_RECENTS.

Updated:

If you need to hide the current already running activity, you might be able to use this flag in combination with FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_TOP which would send the new Intent to the existing Activity. You'll have to think and perhaps experiment with what happens as the user moves around your stack though and whether that will make your app re-appear in the recent apps.

Android - Remove application from Recent Apps

In you Manifest.xml, set the following to your Root Activity

<activity
    android:name=".Your_Root_Activity_Name"
    android:excludeFromRecents="true"
    .... 
</activity>

Depending on the results, you might also have to use the android:noHistory="true" attribute. But not sure if it is required in your case.

For more information about this: http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/manifest/activity-element.html

Programmatically hide an app from the LRU list

Add this to the Activity tag in the Android Manifest, if you don't want your app to show up in the recent apps list:

android:excludeFromRecents="true"

Documentation:

Whether or not the task initiated by this activity should be excluded
from the list of recently used applications ("recent apps"). That is,
when this activity is the root activity of a new task, this attribute
determines whether the task should not appear in the list of recent
apps. Set "true" if the task should be excluded from the list; set
"false" if it should be included. The default value is "false".

How to remove application from recent application list?

try

<activity android:name=".MainActivity"
        android:excludeFromRecents="true" ...

in your AndroidManifest.xml's activity declaration.

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