How do I replicate the Recent Tasks/Apps button in Android Marshmallow?

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This works perfectly on Lollipop:

recents_button.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
        public void onClick(View v) {
            // Perform action on click
            Intent intent = new Intent ("com.android.systemui.recents.SHOW_RECENTS");
            intent.setComponent (new ComponentName ("com.android.systemui", "com.android.systemui.recents.RecentsActivity"));
            startActivity (intent);
        }

But on Marshmallow I get:

java.lang.SecurityException: Permission Denial: starting Intent { act=com.android.systemui.recents.SHOW_RECENTS cmp=com.android.systemui/.recents.RecentsActivity } from ProcessRecord{96f7c1e 4931:com.myapp/u0a188} (pid=4931, uid=10188) not exported from uid 10043

It looks like they no longer make that available for third parties. I cannot say that I am surprised by this. — CommonsWare, Apr 20 '16 at 20:44

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 19 '17 at 19:38

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You can see that intent is not exported by Marshmallow, while it was exported by KitKat.

Tasker is able to show the recent apps dialog, I don't know how it does it.

answered Feb 19 '17 at 19:38

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How do I replicate the Recent Tasks/Apps button in Android Marshmallow?

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