Is there any way to kill an activity when its in picture-in-picture mode from another activity?

Question

I have two Activities ActivityA and ActivityB (this one has pip mode enabled) when ActivityB is in pip mode,ActivityA comes to the foreground now I want to finish/destroy/kill ActivityB from ActivityA is there any way to do this?

if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.N) {
        val supportsPIP = context!!.packageManager.hasSystemFeature(PackageManager.FEATURE_PICTURE_IN_PICTURE)
       
        if (android.os.Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= android.os.Build.VERSION_CODES.O) {
            if (supportsPIP) {
                enterPictureInPictureMode(mPictureInPictureParamsBuilder!!.build())
            }
        }

    }

what have to tried so far for killing the activity? – Yesha Shah Mar 12 '21 at 11:09 — Yesha Shah, Mar 12 '21 at 11:09
using LocalBroadcastManager actually solved the issue – Sarath Siva Mar 13 '21 at 03:09 — Sarath Siva, Mar 13 '21 at 03:09

score 3 · Answer 1 · edited Jan 24 '22 at 11:36

After checking this answer https://stackoverflow.com/a/56896347/13373099 I realized that All I had to do was just use LocalBroadcastManager if anyone having trouble implementing this, here is what I did

in ActivityB

private val mReceiver = object : BroadcastReceiver() {

override fun onReceive(context: Context, intent: Intent?) {
intent?.let { intent ->
        if (intent.action == "FINISH_ACTIVITY") {
            
            finish(); // finish/kill activity also destroys the pip
            
        }}
}

now register the listener

    LocalBroadcastManager.getInstance(this).registerReceiver(mReceiver,  IntentFilter("FINISH_ACTIVITY));

in ActivityA

just send a broadcast with intent action "FINISH ACTIVITY"

 val intent = Intent("FINISH_ACTIVITY")
 LocalBroadcastManager.getInstance(this).sendBroadcast(intent)

score 1 · Answer 2 · edited Mar 22 '21 at 12:14

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Another way it's to save the reference to the activity in a singleton and when you want to kill it you call finish() and the set the reference to null again.

edited Mar 22 '21 at 12:14

Henry Twist

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answered Mar 15 '21 at 12:42

agustin koll

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Is there any way to kill an activity when its in picture-in-picture mode from another activity?

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