Android: How to make launcher always open the main activity instead of child activity? (or otherwise)

Question

I have activities A and B. The A is the one with LAUNCHER intent-filter (i.e. the activity that is started when we click the app icon on home screen).

A launches B usin

Answer 1

Well you should really have activity B initialize your resources too. But you can put android:clearTaskOnLaunch="true" in your manifest for activity A to have the launcher always go to that activity.

Answer 2

Have you tried setting Flag FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK while creating intent. In your case please try startActivity(new Intent(A.this, B.class).setFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK))