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

Kotlin version of this answer:

val intent = Intent(this, YourActivity::class.java)
intent.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_TASK or Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_TASK)
startActivity(intent)
Runtime.getRuntime().exit(0)