Question

I have this Activities sequence:
Avtivity01 => Avtivity02 => Avtivity03

You can go from Avtivity01 to Avtivity02 after you click a button.

You can go from Avtivity02 to Avtivity03 after you click a button.

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I want to go from Activity03 to Activity01 DIRECTLY after I click a button.

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NOTE:

I do NOT want to use Intent, because I want to have Activity01 as if I pressed the back button from Activity02

How to do that, please?

Answer 1

Why can’t you use an Intent? You can use the FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_TOP when you click the button. Edit: If you want to preserve the original instance of the Activity, you can use this flag in conjunction with FLAG_ACTIVITY_SINGLE_TOP.

Do you ever want to be able to press a button from Activity03 to go back to Activity02? If you ALWAYS want it to go back to Activity01, you could alternatively use android:noHistory="true" on Activity02 in the manifest and just call finish() on Activity03.