finish background activity from broadcast receiver

Question

I launch a new activity "ActivityB" when keypad is locked.(ActivityA has been backgrounded before the keypad is locked). ActivityB times out after 30 secs and supposed to close itself, so I called finish after 30 secs, though is not visible, after I unlock I see 2 seperate apps/activities in background. So I used Intent.ACTION_USER_PRESENT broadcastreceiver to finish activityB, still it doesnt work.

Manifest.xml

  <receiver
            android:name="com.example.reciever.UnlockReceiver">
            <intent-filter>
                <action android:name="android.intent.action.USER_PRESENT" />
            </intent-filter>
        </receiver>

UnlockReceiver: public class UnlockReceiver extends BroadcastReceiver {

@Override
public void onReceive(Context arg0, Intent intent) {
        if (ActivityB.b != null) {
            ActivityB.b .finish();
        }
}

}

ActivityB:

private Activity b;
onCreate() {
b= this;
}

ActivityB is started as we receive push:

Intent pushIntent = new Intent(context.getApplicationContext(), ActivityB.class);
                pushIntent.setFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK | Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_TASK);

I see the onReceive called fine when I unlock the device, but it doesn't finsih ActivityB in the background. Hence I see 2 of the same apps in background

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 05 '16 at 19:54

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you may have an intent in activity a which is creating the activity b;

answered Oct 05 '16 at 19:54

Sarmad Shah

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I called finish after 30 secs, it doesnt seem to work. ActivityB is started based on pushnotification, I used CLEAR TASK, which dosnt seem to clear ActivityA – Sweety Bertilla Oct 05 '16 at 20:00
try to implement that clear task in background service – Sarmad Shah Oct 05 '16 at 20:02
looked like setting android:launchMode="singleTop" fixed the issue – Sweety Bertilla Oct 07 '16 at 18:12

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 07 '16 at 18:13

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The issue was fixed after I set the below property in manifest file android:launchMode="singleTop"

answered Oct 07 '16 at 18:13

Sweety Bertilla

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finish background activity from broadcast receiver

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