How to clear Intent that started Activity?

Question

At the beginning Activity is launched by an Intent and something is done with this Intent.

When I change orientation of my Activity, it\'s reloaded again and Intent is

Answer 1

Do not use setIntent(null). It seems that while it may work sometimes, under some conditions the original intent may come back.

Instead, call setIntent() with a simple intent that doesn't have an action, data or extras, such as new Intent(Context, Class).

Indeed, the use of setIntent() was actually not a good API design decision in the first place. Instead, as dcg noted, be sure you only check your intent the first time, when your savedInstanceState is still null.