How to Launch Home Screen Programmatically in Android [duplicate]

Answer 1

This is working good for me!

Intent startMain = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_MAIN);
    startMain.addCategory(Intent.CATEGORY_HOME);      
    startActivity(startMain);

can somebody explain why we need this ?

startMain.setFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK);

btw, this is what I was looking for

moveTaskToBack(true);

Answer 2

Here is the code for starting HomeActivity

        Intent startMain = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_MAIN);
        startMain.addCategory(Intent.CATEGORY_HOME);
        startMain.setFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK);
        startActivity(startMain);

Answer 3

I think I am very late to the party, but I had a similar concern. The answers given here launch a selection menu which allows you to choose the Launcher. If you have more than one launcher in your code, the answer here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/8666155 might be of help. This directly launches the default home screen of Android.