How do I programmatically “restart” an Android app?

Question

Firstly, I know that one should not really kill/restart an application on Android. In my use case, I want to factory-reset my application in a specific case where a server s

Answer 1

With the Process Phoenix library. The Activity you want to relaunch is named "A".

Java flavor

// Java
public void restart(){
    ProcessPhoenix.triggerRebirth(context);
}

Kotlin flavor

// kotlin
fun restart() {
    ProcessPhoenix.triggerRebirth(context)
}