How to finish Activity when starting other activity in Android?

Issue

I have problems to finish the activity before. I want to start another activity and finish the current activity. When I used finish it didn't exit the current activity.

How can I exit the activity before?

Solution

You need to intent your current context to another activity first with startActivity. After that you can finish your current activity from where you redirect.

 Intent intent = new Intent(this, FirstActivity.class);// New activity
 intent.setFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_TOP);
 startActivity(intent);
 finish(); // Call once you redirect to another activity

intent.setFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_TOP) - Clears the activity stack. If you don't want to clear the activity stack. PLease don't use that flag then.

Answered By - Vikalp Patel